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BEFORE ALEXA

STRING AND TINS, London / AMAZON / 2020

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Ellen Degeneres posits the question, what did people do before Alexa, and we go through various times through history showcasing what life was like before Alexa.

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Brief: Creating a world that carried the story while keeping the comedic performances at the centre and supporting them rather than taking over. Things like the comedy timing of the dove getting chomped, then the eagle took some experimentation to figure out the funniest way that the dove could take off, how brutal each chomp should sound. We found that the simpler the better worked best for the comedy a lot of the time. We had versions of the bottle playing that were a lot more farty or spitty (which was obviously pretty funny in itself) but the simpler direction seemed to work best for the film as a whole and to give it more of a consistent tone.

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