shipwreckedcomedy: New photo post for an upcoming Shipwrecked…
New photo post for an upcoming Shipwrecked short, a mysterious musical parody starring Sinead Persaud and directed by Yulin Kuang.
Scheduled for release during a one-week hiatus between Chapters I & II of Kissing in the Rain. We’re keeping the details under wraps on this production for now, but we always invite speculation!
And don’t forget to stay tuned for the premiere of Chapter I of Kissing in the Rain this Monday, 3/10 at 10am PT!
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I’m going to be doing my mega-commute tomorrow, so I probably won’t be able to check out the KiTR premiere until tomorrow night. But I’ve taken a closer look at this post, and wanted to do some speculating. I still don’t have any real idea what it will be, but there are some clues. It’s:
- “a Shipwrecked short”
- “a mysterious musical parody”
That sounds to me like it’s not a “yulinisworking” literature adaptation, but more akin to the Poe stuff (though in a single episode). And probably comedy? Is “Shipwrecked” always comedy? “Parody” sounds comedic.
Looking at the photos, there are lots of flowers, and lace, and darkness. It’s really dark, in the literal sense. I’m not sure that means the actual video will be dark; I guess the darkness could be an artifact of how and when the stills were shot. But I’ll go ahead and assume the dark, spooky look is a feature of the actual production.
Photo 1: Sinead looks at the camera with a mysterious half-smirk and a hint of mischief in her eyes. She’s lying on her back wearing a lacy white dress (a bridal gown?) on what appears to be a bed, surrounded by vintage-y embroidered (or at least leafy patterned) pillows. Her arms are folded across her chest in the style of a corpse arranged for viewing. She’s wearing what appears to be a thin gold wedding band on the ring finger of her left hand. There are white flowers arranged on the left side of the frame, and a doll with what appears to be a black blindfold over its eyes. And above and to the right of her head, a dark outline that almost looks like it could be… a black bird? Poe’s raven? (It actually looks a little small for a raven, but I seem to recall that the stuffed bird they used in the Poe videos was also smallish for a raven.) MK already played Annabel Lee, so I suspect we’re not talking about her, but there’s definitely a Corpse Bride-y feel to this image, in the literal sense even if not necessarily in the Tim Burton sense.
Photo 2: Sinead sits up on one arm on what we can clearly see now is a bed, with a headboard draped with lace. There are more flowers visible in the background by the side of the bed (dark pink/magenta on the left, and maybe blue on the right?), and a cool vintage wall lamp/sconce with a stained glass shade. Sinead’s head is turned to the side and deeply shadowed, but she appears to be looking toward the viewer with her mouth open in a smile, perhaps talking or singing.
Photo 3: Sinead looks straight at the viewer, her face fully illuminated and small magenta flowers in her hair. This time her look is more serious, challenging, her mouth closed and her eyebrow slightly raised. White flowers are visible in the out-of-focus background.
Photo 4: Sinead smiles at a burning match or candle in her hand. There’s a better view of the floral arrangement in her hair. Blue and green patterned curtains are out of focus in the background.
Photo 5: Sinead walks away from the viewer, parting a curtain formed of old-fashioned keys dangling from strings.
Photo 6: Sinead stands in front of a window, surrounded by white and dark magenta flowers. She looks back over her shoulder, her face in shadow, but with a definite look of sadness, regret, or longing.
So, summing up: She’s a bride, and a corpse. Looking through the songs in Corpse Bride, there’s one, “Tears to Shed”, that is mostly sung by Emily, the eponymous corpse bride, and includes imagery about how if she touches a burning candle she feels no pain, and which the shots of Sinead evoke pretty nicely. And I guess that Poe’s raven and the blindfolded doll could be present to sing the parts of Maggot and Black Widow.
It’s probably something completely different. But that’s my speculation.
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Tags: kitr, yulinisworking.
