BBN’s Haunt

Last Monday, BBN presented their annual Halloween Haunt episode, “A Nightmare on Bushard Street”. Normally, we would expect a frightening plot, usually consisting of gory scenes and foreboding mystery. The use of a frightening concept was done over the last few years.

However, this year, BBN decided to do something different, something better. Instead of incorporating the cliche gore, haunted buildings, and a highly overrated use of documentary style camera shots, BBN provided new and improved elements to this year’s Halloween episode- comedy, student involvement, and better video-editing.

Most would ask, why choose comedy over a horror story, rightfully meant for the occasion of Halloween? Personally, if one compares this year’s episode to the ones in the past, I would say that the comedy element broke from the repetitiveness of the focus and remakes of scenes from horror/scary movies (not to mention the overly done Paranormal Activity hypes). It was different and hilarious. The episode’s uses of gore was subtle rather than overly done. Rather than being bored while already knowing the ending of the storyline, one can be entertained and look forward to what happens next.

Not only was the episode humorous, but BBN reached out to more students this year to be involved in the episode. You can’t deny that seeing your friends in the episode made it more entertaining to watch. References to stereotypes and parodies also contributed as comedic effects.

The video-editing has improved as well. There was better sound and visual quality in this year’s episode. The dialogue and sound effects were perfectly in sync. Let’s not forget to note that the Pho-Nomenal Five exhibited great comedic (and some, serious) acting.

This year’s Halloween Episode of the BBN was by far the best that I’ve seen. Kudos to the Baron Broadcast Team for a job well done!

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