Research Task 6-Amie Nelms

Conversation Piece (Tunmer), 2009

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

Genre- Social Realism/comedy

• 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