Here's some websites I found with information on distributing, promoting, funding, exhibiting and marketing short films...
Promotion-how to promote your short
http://www.filmindustrynetwork.biz/how-to-make-a-short-film-promotion/
Funding-how shorts are funded
http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/filmmaking/guide/before-you-start/funding
Distribution-how they can be distributed
http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/filmmaking/guide/distribution/distribution
Marketing-how to market
http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/filmmaking/guide/distribution/marketing-your-short
I've found some interesting information on festivals where short films can be viewed, as well as where they can be shown...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/filmmaking/guide/distribution/links-exhibition-and-distribution-shorts
A list of festivals which show short films...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/filmmaking/guide/distribution/links-festivals
Amie Nelms
Friday, 29 January 2010
Short Film Promotion Research-Amie Nelms
Final Script
This is our final script for our production. We altered some phrases so it didn't sound 'cheesy' or unrealistic.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/filmmaking/guide/before-you-start/writing-a-script
(Shots 1-5 silence, except non diegetic soundtrack)
Shot 6: Hi Amie,
Shot 7: I'm so sorry that i had to leave you, you have to understand that you are so dear to me and you always will be.
Shot 8: Just because I'm gone doesn't mean that'll ever change.
Shot 9: I need you to know that i felt like i just couldn't be the man that you wanted, or even deserved.
Shot 10: I didn't mean to hurt you and i know that my death will have done this, but you have to believe me when i say that I'm sorry
Shot 11: but i couldn't see any other way for me to go on.
Shot 13: The choice's i made were never good enough, and i always ended up doing the wrong thing
Shot 14: and it wasn't fair on you to bring you into that world that i had created. It was wrong of me.
Shot 15: Everything was my fault. I'm sorry for blaming and hurting you. I hope I didn't disappoint you or let you down
Shot 16: I will always be there for you no matter what, Amie. I will always love you forever.
Shot 17: I couldn't tell you goodbye face to face
Shot 18: Silence
Shot 19: Silence
Shot 20: Silence
Amie's dialogue begins...
Shot 21: You know Rich, sometimes I feel like you're here with me
Shot 23: But now you're gone, I need to move on
Shot 24: I need to move on
Shot 25: Silence
Shot 26: But I'm hoping my final decision will now set you free.
All my love forever
Rich. "
Shot 27: I'm moving on Rich
Thursday, 28 January 2010
Script Research
After looking at lyrics and suicide letters on the internet, we decided to expand on Jo's blogged draft of the suicide letter...
As inspiration we thought of songs which lines could help us in broadening the letter-
- Goodbye my lover-James Blunt
- Hurt-Christina Aguilera
Amie Nelms, Jo White and Emma Robertson
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
Inital research Jo White
I have posted a message on face book asking peers what they think of our narrative so far, a few comments suggested that people like the narrative because we've kept the idea simple.
further comments on our narrative will be posted with a link to the comments when a wider variety of the audience messages me back.
A scene from Twilight (2008) has been referenced to being similar to our storyline. 
This shot is inspiring because this type of shot is something that we would like to create within our own film. However i don't think having the characters looking straight at each other would work as well as this does, because facial expression allows the characters to look as if nothing else matters, than that moment and them being together. Where as our characters are having to move on.
Jo White.
Friends' and Family feedback- Emma Robertson
After talking to my family and friends about our film narrative, many of them liked hearing about the plot and thought it was very interesting. Another thing, which was REALLY interesting is that they started to compare our film with other current films/TV shows . So I decided to research about them:
Randall and Hopkirk deceased (TV Show)
My Step-dad referred to this hit TV Show:_dvd_volume_2_cover.jpg)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063946/plotsummary
I thought this poster was really interesting as it reinforced our idea about having the ghost in a white costume whereas the girlfriend is in black: showing the dull reality, stress and darkness of the world.
Ghost (Film)
My Auntie said our film sounded like her favourite film, Ghost, starring Demi Moore.
After researching on the internet, to my amazement the narrative was really similar:
"After being killed during a botched mugging, a man's love for his partner enables him to remain on earth as a ghost"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099653/
Just Like Heaven (Film)
After speaking to Amie, we referred to this film 'Just Like Heaven', as it narrative involves a dead girlfriend trying to get back with her boyfriend. It's a funny romantic comedy which appeals to our similar target audience (young teen girls)
The Time Traveller's Wife (Film)
After speaking to Jo, we both admitted that our film had elements of the Time Traveller's wife from its scenes of the fields. I also stumbled across this screen grab, which is very similar to our frame featuring in our animatic.
The Lovely Bones (Film)
I was watching television and an TV Spot for the new film 'Lovely Bones' came on. I was amazed. Ghosts, magic, mixed with romance/family/crime are very popular with young audiences and that's when I realised our short film's narrative has the potential to be something great!
Storyboard as animatic- Emma Robertson
Amie, Jo and I all helped each other to turn the storyboard into an animatic.
This is a draft animatic as we still have to decide on the script yet. But this gives us a rough idea on how the piece should look. We realise it's over 2 mins long and the film has to be 5 mins, but there will be longer takes and dialogue spoken.
Storyboard Part 1- Emma Robertson
One of my roles was produce the storyboard.
I had to consider the framing,angle and the action taking place within each frame.
I also arranged a meeting so all members of the group could look over my work and we decided to make some alterations to follow the narrative to follow
Monday, 25 January 2010
Props- Amie Nelms
After our group meeting, we decided that we purposely didn't need many props, to make the filming easier and to maintain continuity easier-plus we felt it didn't really go with the story.
Props
- Letter-Also form of script
- Costumes-To distinguish the characters, more mise en scene
We basically came up with an idea, inspired by a few short films we had viewed individually, of choosing different colours for the characters, so the audience can distinguish the living from the dead. Also, we wanted to keep the clothes casual, so it is more realistic/believable, genre convention of social realism.
- Amie-Black, to show she is in mourning for her dead boyfriend
- Rich-White, heavenly, purity connotations
Costume options...
Amie
Amie Nelms
Second draft of the script- Jo White
- One draft of the letter in our short film has already been posted
- A few more drafts of it will be posted to make sure it's perfect before filming starts.
- Apart from the letter we havnt decided upon what else the characters might say to each other.
- In the planning stage so far, we have the couple saying hello to each other.
- And at the end of the scene we have Aime telling Rich and (the auidence) that "she's moving on" but another idea that Aime had was for Rich to tell her to move on, as this could be more effective.
- As of yet the final dialogue hasn't been set in stone, but planning for this is ongoing, and may alter during filming as the story comes together.
Jo White.
A Possible draft of the letter-Jo White
As well as locations we've also started to think about what the letter in our storyline is going to sound like. Because this prop is what our storyline is directed towards this is a very important prop, and we've all decided as a group to each write a possible letter, and choose the best parts from each to make sure it makes sense, and keeps the audience focused around our main theme.
At the moment our main ideas are that the main male character has committed suicide, and he's left a letter to his girlfriend explaining why he did it. We decided to keep the names of the cast the same, so the female character is Aime, and the male character is Rich.
We also decided that Aime is probably going to be dressed in black, and Rich will be dressed in white, but further information on choice of costume will be added later.
First Draft of the letter: (it will be hand written)
"Hi Aime,
I'm so sorry that i had to leave you, you have to understand that you are so dear to me and you always will be. Just because I'm gone doesn't mean that'll ever change. I need you to know that i felt like i just couldn't be the man that you wanted, or even deserved. I didn't mean to hurt you and i know that my death will have done this, but you have to believe me when i say that I'm sorry but i couldn't see any other way for me to go on. The choice's i made were never good enough, and i always ended up doing the wrong thing, and it wasn't fair on you to bring you into that world that i had created. It was wrong of me. Everything was my fault. But I'm hoping my final decision will now set you free.
All my love forever
Rich. "
Lighting- Jo White
- For our short film we've decided to use natural lighting as our genre is social realism.
- and we think this will work the best for our short film.
- However we want to use a reflector so that we can reflect natural light onto the characters faces.
- For example the one's shown above, the only difference being we will be holding ours.
(Image above is from google images)
- Through using the reflectors we hope that each shot will appear more natural, but also slightly brighter than if we didn't use them at all.
- We are also hoping to film in black and white so by using the reflector it should make elements of mise en scene have more meaning as colour isn't being used.
Jo White.
Sound- Amie Nelms
Ambient non-diegetic sound
http://www.mediacollege.com/audio/ambient/
- Footsteps
- Wind (if present when shooting)
- Train (depending on location)
- Stream
- Extract our own foley of above ideas
Thinking about possible non-diegetic soundtrack options...
- Beginning when Rich is waiting on bench, for Amie
- Possibly at end, when she's walking away
- Instruments for soundtrack-piano/acoustic guitar
- Create own composition on keyboard for the short film
- Find someone and record composition, ask for permission to use it
- Use garageband, find recordings and create our own soundtrack
Main use of sound will be focused on the narration of Rich, the dead boyfriend, reading the letter out to the audience!
Amie Nelms
Roles
Amie Nelms
- Actress
- Props-costume
- Location scouter
- Sound
- Editor
Jo White
- Director
- Editor
- Lighting
- Location Scouter
- Script writer
Emma Robertson
- Camera
- Editor
- Location scouter
- Storyboard artist
- Location communicator
Amie Nelms, Jo White and Emma Robertson
Areas For Assessment
Genre/Style:
- Social Realism/drama/thriller/romance
Narrative:
- Main male character has committed suicide
- Left a letter to his girlfriend explaining why he did it
- He tells her to move on
Representation:
- Heteropolitan male-committed to relationships, also stylish
- Modern female-independent, who doesn't depend on men
- Death/suicide
- Teen issues-depression, pressure in society
- Everyday issues, real life
Target Audience:
- 16-24, mainstream blockbuster audience
- Girls-relationships, can relate, romantic
Amie Nelms, Jo White and Emma Robertson
Spider-diagram of ideas
Here is our ideas' page. Amie, Jo and I discussed many themes and issues within the chosen genres. We all agreed that 'Social Realism' was the best genre. We wanted to do something different as we attempted Thriller last year and wanted to challenge ourselves. Plus, after looking back at all our research films, they all had elements of Social Realism. We wanted to apply our knowledge and experiment with long takes and ambient sound. Also, it would allow us to focus more on the chosen location and decide on realistic settings, costumes and characters for our short film.
Synopsis
It’s about a teenaged boy who waits for his girlfriend, sitting on a park bench. He spots his girlfriend walking towards him, carrying his letter in her hand, and lets her sit next to him. She blanks him, that’s because he is a ghost. He committed suicide (sorry if it sounds a bit depressing!) and wants to be with her before he flies up to heaven. So he starts to read the words while she reads the letter silently. She gets a bit emotional and runs into the fields. She decides to move on from her boyfriend’s death and walks away into the distance.
Emma Robertson
Sunday, 24 January 2010
Location 6- Emma Robertson
After walking around Grattons Park, I found a possible location for us to film. Photos of the bench and surrounding areas are above. The bench is located on the outskirts of the park, where less interruptions will be.
I thought the waste bin would be a nuisance at first from being the shot, but I thought it would be a perfect prop for social realism. Plus, there is a big bush in the background which can cover passers by as they walk past. There is also a stream running along the back, which could inspire some shots for the film as cutaway shots.
There are fields near by, where our characters can run and plenty of room for a handheld camera movement.
Overall, there are issues we need to consider whilst filming:
- Informing the public we are filming and causing less commotion as possible. Signing will be needed.
- Permission from the Council to ensure safety and we aren't breaking any rules. Confirmation for the use of a public area is always needed. I will be emailing them today to ask.
- Weather! Due to the snow and rain fall it might make a guest appearance during the half term so we need to plan carefully some shots for continuity.
- Lighting. Hopefully this would cause to much of a problem as we are hoping the film will be black and white.
- Making sure everyone can get to the chosen location during the half term!
Location 5- Emma Robertson
So I decided to visit Grattons Park, Crawley and this was a promising start.
I found this bench under a lonely-looking tree, which was very interesting. The location symbolises loneliness from the society. It was very surreal looking! However, as I approached the bench, it was very water logged and the bench didn't have a back, which we wanted!
I thought this location would look perfect for establishing shots and extreme long shots, but the weather conditions would make it impossible to film.
Plus, I found out the fields surrounding this bench are used as football pitches and would be used during the half term so it wouldn't be ideal to film here. Plus, a children's playground is very near by and this could cause a problem such as ambient sound, interruptions from the public etc.
Location 4- Emma Robertson
The first location I stumbled across was the bench at the bottom of my road. I thought it would be interesting location as many short films are shot in parks.
After debating with my thoughts, this wasn't a suitable area to film as the traffic on the main road causing a lot of ambient sound, which could interfer with the characters' dialogue. Plus, the physical room for the equipment. The bench is also outside a resident's house so this wouldn't be a wise move. We would cause a lot of commotion! Not wise.
My adventure continues.....
Location 3- Emma Robertson
The group decided to search for possible locations for our short film. The bench is the most important prop of them all! So this decision is extremely important. Plus we have to consider the surrounding areas for lighting and mise en scene reasons.
I thought my back garden could be a possible location for the short film as we have more freedom and less interuptions whilst filming. However, my garden bench looks far too modern, plus it would clash with Rich's white costume. In addition, my garden is very small causing a limited mise en scene area to work. So I thought, I would adventure out from our back gardens and explore the Crawley parks for suitable locations.
Saturday, 23 January 2010
Location option 2- Jo White
Thursday, 21 January 2010
Location Option 1- Amie Nelms
After our group meeting today, we established that we would need an outdoor location with a bench. We came up with possible parks and open spaces with benches, however thought it might be easier to look at places closer to our fingertips-our back gardens.Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Monday, 18 January 2010
Research Task Conclusion- Emma Robertson
To conclude all my research work, these are the sparks of inspiration from all the short films I have watched over the past week:
•Power of costumes: can depict the protagonist & antagonist easily just by looking at them
•Limited use of dialogue: moments of silence or simply actions can speak louder than words
•If a scene is impossible to do due to lack of budget: use black screen and a sound effect of the action e.g. graphic murder
•Black and white only: these two colours can be extremely power for lighting purposes: contrast between light and dark areas: shadow depth of field
•High key lighting can create a dream like sequence
•Frames can be out of focus
•Hand-held camera can create tension
•Symbolic extreme close up create suspense on certain props
•Establishing shots along with a sound bridge allows two different areas to meet
•No dialogue except a voice over, such as a poem or lyrics along with powerful images
•Slow zoom allows the mood to change suddenly: tension created
•Different characters can represent different personalities
•Power of the non-diegetic soundtrack
•Depth of field within frames are important
Research Task 7- Jo White
Wasp (Andrea Arnold) 2003
Genre: Social Realism/Drama
- The scene opens with the sound of footsteps on the ground, and the audience can see bare feet walking down some indoor steps
- The next shot Pan's upwards and the viewer can see a women holding a baby, with three other small girls
- Hand held camera is used
- Real locations are used, and from the first scene its obvious to see this is a low budget film.
- Mise en scene is used to show that the mother and her children are from an unprivileged background, because the mother isn't wearing any shoes, her baby doesn't have a nappy on, and her little girls have dirty faces.
- A tracking shot of the car is used, and this allows the viewer to notice the importance of the man 'Dave' as an important character for 'Zoe' and her children.
- Another key scene from the short film is when the baby is watching a wasp on the window, the shot is a mid shot, with the baby in the corner of the frame.
- This shot is important to the narrative, for later on in the plot.
- Aspects of unique style conventions used seem to be that it relies heavily on the narrative, and the characters, as both of these are the most important to the film.
- The characters used make up the main narrative, and the audience gets to feel as if they know the characters, and care what happens to them.
- The style seems to be as if we are following them on their journey through life, and the issues that they come across just as, not having enough food, or money. Throughout the mother character 'Zoe' does seem to truly care for her children, she just gets a bit distracted along the way.
- I think the audience are positioned for feel sorry for both Zoe and her children, because she does try to look after them, and its clear to see that she wants to provide for them,
- this is represented in the scene when Zoe drips the baby's dummy in sugar to try and stop him from crying. And also when she try's to find someone who will look after her children when she goes out.
- I think this film represents a lot of family's in Britain and also takes on the role of a lot of stereotypes within the film. Audience's will be able to relate to the film easily.
Posted By Jo White
Research Task 7- Emma Robertson
Eight (Daldry, 1998)
•Panning movement of the beach.- depth of field within the frame (football, grass, sand, sea waves and hills)
•Extreme long shot of the boy surrounded by the beach environment
•Tracking shot of the boy walking across the wet sand- objective shot
•Use of voice over and dialogue of the boy talking about his life
•Archive footage used of the football match
•Diegetic off screen sound of the commentator. Extreme long shot of the boys watching TV in their bedroom
•Establishing shots of the ferry crossing the sea
•Slow motion used when the boy is celebrating his goal score low angle
•Establishing shot of the shed and a sound bridge to join the medium shot of the boy colouring in the shed
•Emotional voice-over of the boy talking about his family and his dad "Mum is trying to find a new dad" Medium close up eye level of the boy talking to the screen. allowing the audience to connect
•Similar to Wasp's ending with the child singing 'Never walk alone' and the extreme long shot fades to black
Posted by Emma at 02:30
Thursday, 14 January 2010
Research Task 7-Amie Nelms
Genre-Social Realism
- Naturalistic lighting, low key lighting (watching football on TV)
- Costume related to context-film subject on football and Jonathan's Dad (who died at football match), football shirts
- Iconography of football-shirts, football, matches (on video/TV), tape playing of football game
- Exterior shot-shed
- Slow motion-used to emphasise joy/highlight the football gesture/celebration of shirt over head
- Beach-freedom, be able to think about Dad; home-restricted, confined-Dad's death upsets Mum
- Desaturated colour palette
- No football in house=Mum healing, reminder of her loss
Narrative
- Equilibrium-boy, introduces himself at beach; Disruption-on going thoughts of Dad, find put about teasing at school, struggle at home, find out he died; Resolution-on beach, boy thinking about Dad, wanting a new one-left to audiences imagination to what happens next
- Opening and ending-on beach, only place so he can think of Dad in private/play football
Sound
- Language in dialogue used for Jonathan to address the audience- "bye"
- Beginning-introduction of line- "I am Jonathan and I am eight", emphasising character information
- Scouser accent-Liverpool, reflects area where he use to live
- Diegetic sounds-eg. TV, radio/tape
- Silence used (when eating dinner), to create tension, emotion, gives audience time to reflect on information learnt so far
- String and guitar non diegetic soundtrack-emotive towards boy and his loss, yearning for a Dad
- 'Never Walk Alone'-Liverpool FC anthem, boy singing it on beach at end, to remind him and audience of connection of Dad and football-memories, emotive song in itself, haunting end
- Soundbridge of boy narrating thoughts of his Dad
Themes and Issues
- Football-perhaps metaphor for his Dad, only thing he knew of his Dad (interest)
- Abuse- friend gets hit every time he doesn't eat pudding
- Childhood-Imagination, role play, creating football world through play
- Grief-for Dad, Mum banning football in house
- Over extension of 'Dad'-on pier, he's seeking for a new 'Dad', goes up to stranger, thinks everyone could be his Dad-when you only can have one true Dad
Comments
- Extremely emotive short film, clever use of boy narrating and talking to audience to create the emotional connection
- Use of fades-to white
- Interesting use of location-beach, watching train, relating to jobs his Dad could have done
- Range of shots-definitely incorporate in own short film eg. very high angle shot of putting football shirt on shelf.
Amie Nelms
Research Task 6- Jo White
Eight (Daldry) 1998
Genre: Social Realism
- The style used in Eight seems to be very real.
- This is portrayed with its real locations, normal casual clothes/hair/make-up
- And even with the narrative, as its a young boys point of view, and almost ideal idea of what his dad was like, and the jobs that he could have done
- The scene starts with an establishing shot
- The camera pans to the right of the screen
- A Medium close up of a football is shown
- A mid shot is used as the boy enters the corner of the frame.
- The scene looks picturesque as the boy shouts "I am Johnathan and i am 8 years old" over and over.
- From this shot the audience gets there first proper look at him, he's in normal clothes, and from this shot the audience can tell that he is going to be the main character throughout.
- Voice-over is used and its Johnathan he tells the viewer his thoughts and idea's of his dad and his life and how he wishes he had a dad. This use of voice over being played as we see the boy running and playing is unique, because normally the audience would just watch as the main character ran about, but with the voice over its almost as if we are getting to know the character, and what kind of boy he is.
- The advantages of the short film narrative means the audience doesn't loose interest with the storyline, as the narrative structure keeps the audience wondering what the boy will tell us next. The ordering of the narrative seems to work really well, and actually also seems quite unique in that the establishing shot is on the beach, and normally and maybe more sterotipical the establing shot would be taken in or near the home, or where the main story beggins. But in this short film it's established on the beach.
- This may be because this is where the boy feels most free, and where he can truely think about football, and his dad without worrying what his mum thinks.
- The film uses sound very carefully within each shot, and i think this works really well.
- The main story is very touching, and is a very unique way of showing a child's side of the story to his fathers death, and what he really thinks and feels about it.
- One line from the film that i thought was inspring was when he says "mum must not of really liked dad, as she crys whenever i talk ask about him" this quote shows how innocent the boy is, and also makes the viewer feel sorry for him, and symphathic towards his mother.
- One other really inspiring shot in the film is when Johnathan talks about his mum finding him a new dad, and how difficult she found it, but he says its easy, there are dad's everywhere.
Posted by Jo White.
Research Task 6- Emma Robertson
Conversation Piece (Tunmer, 2009)
Social Realism/Comedy Short film
More info about the film
1.Set-up stage involves many extreme close ups of props: clock, newspapers, ornaments associated to the home and actions e.g. the husband chewing his toast and his eyes' reading the newspaper.
2.BCU of the husband's face invading the screen quickly
3.Sound-bridging of the kitchen noise to allow different rooms of the house to be shown. Medium long shot of the wife in the kitchen cooking. Stereotypical roles in the house for realism effect
4.Jump cuts used to speed up the process of playing the music on the gramophone
5.After all the extreme close ups, it concludes the set up by using extreme long shot at eye level of the husband sitting in the living room. Importance of the living room mise en scene
6.GREAT IMPORTANCE OF THE NON DIEGETIC SOUNDTRACK! VERY CLEVER TECHNIQUE!
7.Eye-levelled frames to allow realism.
8.The power of silence is important as it makes a change of mood. Sound effects of the clock as she kisses him
9.Slow tilting movement of the broken vase= mystery of the prop
10.Costumes symbolise their different personalities: Husband in his dressing gown, Wife in a blouse and skirt (even to the tiniest detail of the Christian necklace)
11.Naturalistic lighting as there are shadows in the frames
12.Quick tilting up and down movement of the close ups of the husband (sitting in the chair) and wife (standing behind the chair) talking to each other. confrontation
13.Importance of depth of field within the frames: vase is sharp and the man is out of focus emphasising the vase being placed down on the table and allows the audience to understand the agenda of their conversation.
Inspirational:
The technique of using the soundtrack as the dialogue is very creative and we could possible try to copy this idea. Although, we will need to spend a long time in editing suite matching the movement of the mouths to the jazz music. Music video? I loved the tilting movements and depth of fields within each frame allowing the audience to concentrate on certain props in the room.
Posted by Emma at 01:22
Research Task 6-Amie Nelms
http://www.britfilms.com/britishfilms/catalogue/browse/?id=56948F131d5913623EMQXRC74E42
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1565402/
http://www.newtreatment.co.uk/test-pages/test-recent/95-conversation-piece
- Hand held camera-natural shake
- Naturalistic lighting
- Props-everyday, daily routine eg. paper, toast
- House interior setting
- Costume and make up appropriate to context, within the home
- Extreme close ups and close ups to keep audience guessing what objects are
- Depth of field-man sitting out of focus, then vase in focus-emphasise she's putting vase down/reverse, to emphasise man's talking
- 'Conversation Piece'-could be the vase, music, or the short film
Narrative
- Equilibrium-showing rooms of house, introducing characters, Disruption-broken vase, Resolution-man fixes vase after wife tells him to
- Opening and ending-silence, just clock ticking-highlights relationship of music and dialogue
Sound
- Diegetic soundtrack-acting as soundbridge throughout
- Lack of dialogue, music replacing and representing dialogue
- Music tone, pitch and length replicates mood and emotion of characters eg. when woman got upset, whiny trumpet/brass section
- Diegetic clock ticking sound- emphasises silence
- Characters adopt different tones within music to distinguish who's talking, supported by the character speaking being the subject of the camerawork
Themes and Issues
- Males representation-males procrastinate, lazy, slouchy-sitting around at home in robe, pulling toast out of pocket
- Females- can use sexuality to persuade males to do something/carry out job eg. fixing vase; emotional/sensitive eg. crying; females 'nag' men-eg. to fix vase
Comments
- Interesting use of camerawork-camera follows record on turntable, then joins it in circular movement.
- Range of shots-close ups and extreme close up to create suspense, find out what's happening
- Inspiring use of sound-fits extremely well, makes film interesting, keeps audience entertained, without music would be change tone of short film
Amie Nelms