Faight-Harry Quilley

Faight is a Rom-com where we follow a guy through a small rough patch within his life, i  which his room-mate couldn't be worse, and his girlfriend cheated on him.

The film uses a play on words, with the girl she bumps into on the beach. He name is Faight, this is a homophone, which relates to how they met on a beach at a part faight had never been before.



We see the antagonist Josh, in a whole 360 medium close up shot, showing us the nothingness around him, implying his complete loneliness, how he has nobody there for him.
Shown through both body language and facial expression, which are both empty drained and slumped. Josh also feels left out, because of the representation of age, and that everyone in his school is having sex and always enjoying themselves, he feels under pressure that he isn't having the same enjoyment as they are, which is worsening his depressive state.

Even when faight did trip over him, he had very little emotion, and didn't even apologies or his actions, which also suggest his lack of feeling and anger from previous events that day. Josh then begins to wonder whether this was really fate. They begin talking and start to relate in many ways, as well as getting along.
The conversation then gets much more smiley, showing the effect of each other on themselves, and their sudden change in emotion.

Using the beach as a setting to imply freedom, contradicts what is inevitable as they seem to come closer than before. The change of music to a non-diagetic upbeat music which also highlights the change in attitude of both the male and female, as well as the time shift, which also implies the saying 'time fly's when your having fun'.

Too Shy- Harry Quilley

Too Shy (2011 Ryan Hutchins)

Too shy is a young man doing a poetic reading in a high school open mic night. The film is shows the concept of love,death and regret. It start as a man in possibly his early twenties, reading the entry of his poem/reading as we cannot be sure whether it is actually a poem. The young man is wearing what seems to be very casual clothing and seems to not be under any pressure in front of an audience as he begins to read, this implies confidence in what he is to say.

Reaction to Emotion

Audience Compatibility

Audience feels the same way

From what we see, the audience then begins to react to what he has said, and they start to really engage with the reader and that they have experienced  they same type of emotion that the protagonist has within the poem, and that are all intrigued to listen closely to see what comes of these feelings and emotions.As the film enters its stage of cut-scenes and visioning the poem, we begin to feel sympathy for the protagonist, as though knew exactly how he felt.

Sudden realisation the poem's about her

The film shows a very stereotypical way of gender roles, in that the man must be the first to make a move within a relationship for it to go any further, even though the girl wanted to express her feelings, she felt as though the friendship between the to could be ruined. This leads back to the stereotype of the man having to ask out the women, even though overtime this has changed, it is still seen as the responsibility of the man to express feelings before the women. This short film implies that he once was to shy, but that he grew in confidence and as we see at the end, he got the girl that he had 'loved for years'. This is shown at the very end when there eyes catch from across the room, and it seems she realised the reading/poem, was all about herself, with the final shot being of the journal, implying that the second half of the poem is what his life it could have turned out to be like if he didn't express his feelings towards here before they moved apart.

As there eyes meet across the room

He Said. She Said Harry Quilley

He Said. She Said is about the contradiction within each of the four characters heads, on how well their dates went. It uses Levi Strausss' theory of binary opposites to highlight the goings on in a females brain to a males brain and how they compared the two dates between each other.

The men chatting about the evening

They use a non-diagetic soundtrack through the clip, even over the voice-over sections which is also a contradiction to the film, because they are explaining there awful date, with joyful music over the top. We can see from these to screen grabs, the evidence of the contradiction as that each grab has an ecstatic person as well as a down-beat annoyed attitude, as we know however they are both from two sides of the story and only one of each scene enjoyed their date.

Gossiping ladies

The binary opposites highlights the comedic value to the film, as it shows a realistic response from male and female. Which leads on to stereotypes within the film that are implied that there is usually only one gender enjoyed the date and the other didn't. The film follows many other stereotypical views such as the ladies are trying to keep fit by going out jogging and the two guys at their barbecue as well as mentioning the 'game' the night before.

The use of shots from each flashback to the previous night allows us to see their own thoughts of the date, and uses dramatic irony in each one, as whoever is doing the voice-over of the flashback and the audience knew more about the date than the other side of the story that we hear. The flashbacks also use close-ups from certain times in the clips to allow us to see each facial expressions from when their partners didn't see.

Touch-Harry Quilley

Touch

ECU of the opening handshake

Touch is a short film that portrays then life of a couple, through the holding of their hands from the day the met, to the day the husband dies. At which time the opening scene is almost replicated, with an almost identical scene to the one of which we started with, to imply a sense of repetition to the short film (that it could be repeated all over again) as well as the representation of 'life'.

ECU of the closing handshake

 This short film is particularly difficult to set a specific gender as it has very little to work off, as a very short film of its type it gives off very little detail to go off, however because of the lack of a story line, romance would seem the only possible fit of genre as the only emotion we feel is romance. As our short film has a requirement of 5 minutes, this gives us time and freedom to create a genre of our choosing, based off our target audience as well as being creative and original to increase the popularity of our short film.

Through-ought the clip we get many close ups of the couple, and what feelings are being portrayed for each clip, as well as the other halves response. The use of blurring and background focus suggest a specific attention to just each other, and nothing around them, just their love. Even if their expressions aren't exactly happy, they still represent happiness as we see her facial expression from giving birth. This increases the show of love, of being their every step of the way. 

My Name Is Parker-Harry Quilley

My Name Is Parker is a romantic short film, in which we see the use of male stereotypes of domestic violence within a relationship, as well as teaching others to forgive and forget about things in the past. 

The target audience for this short film would range from 13+ as the light violence scene means it cant be shown to a too younger audience, if we were to involve and violence within our short film, I think we would keep it as little and as toned down as possible as it can take away from some of the more valuable parts of the film.

The short film follows Chris Voglers theory of a heroes journey, where we see the girl in distress, call upon Parker to comfort her, and by doing so stealing her heart away from her boyfriend, which also relates to Parkers enthusiasm for 'Stealing'. The use of darker lighting nearer the end of the clip when Parker is not around highlights her sadness without him, even though they have only known each other for a couple or even one day.






The film also highlights the danger of a kleptomaniac, which is representing disabilities as not only in a bad light, but in a way which makes us view them as the same as us. The clips of Parker and how we are told he steals things through-ought the movie, really highlights the dangers if someone with a disorder or disabilities, even if they look as though they are normal.



The use of a non-diagetic soundtrack through the film,  implies the change in feelings and attitude from the start. It allows us to relies the obvious change in heart of the girl and how she had fallen for Parker, which is made clear with the very calm romantic soundtrack to finish the film, really highlighted the change.

The Lonsome Footballer - Laura Brownlie

The Lonsome

 Footballer

Directer By: Elizabeth Mienert

"The Lonesome Footballer - is he just bored of anti-social?"

http://www.virginmediashorts.co.uk/film/5412/the-lonesome-footballer#.VCVs21eGjLQ

1 (All shorts of peoples feet)

2 (POV looking down on a football.)

3 (film has a old feel to it)

Petals - Laura Brownlie

Petals

Directed By: Konrad Maximilian

"The hardest choice in life is so choose your love, But what if you choice of love is the same choice of life and death."

The harder choice in life is to choose your Love. But what if choose of Love itch the same time of choice of life and death? - See more at: http://www.virginmediashorts.co.uk/film/4741/petals#.VCVenFeGjLQ

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The harder choice in life is to choose your Love. But what if choose of Love itch the same time of choice of life and death? - See more at: http://www.virginmediashorts.co.uk/film/4741/petals#.VCVenFeGjLQ

The first shot we see in this film is a tracking shot across an old dusty piano. this immediately gives use tells us that we are in some abandoned building.

Everything on we see that the setting is covered in dust and muck these are both Semantic codes  Horror/ Thriller films. 

Piano in the opening shot

I takes a whole minuet until we see any of the characters. In this time all the shots we see are tracking shots. These shots have a very slow editing pace, it make everything seam calm causing the ending to be a greater shock.

The Non dieject Soundtrack  runs throughout the whole film, but gets quieter as we are introduced to the characters. The dialog that we here has an echoy effect, the enphasises the epmtyness of the area they are in. The soundtrack does not fit in with the girl being kill at the typically you would more likly to here horror or thriller music not a song that would more likely fit in to a romance film, This is contrapuntal sound. Although this does have some romance elements the flowers is every simbolic of romance films, this film is a mixutre of both thriller and horror.

Petals on the floor.

Depth of feild is used to bring focuse on to the gun just before he shoots her, this fore the first time pulls the audience off him. It makes it very clear what is about to happen  so takes away some aspects of supprise.

Camera focuse on the gun.

A sound bridge is used at the end of this film we do not see him actually shoot her we only hear it. If we wanted to put something like this in our film this is a good way do do it as you had actually have show it you only have to get a soud effect.

A Favour - Holly Stone

A favor

MRANG

The short film "A Favor" uses cross-cutting to swap between two very different families who have different life-styles. Generally one of these families are stereotyped regularly - the Muslim family. The influences of Social Media and the actions to-which Muslims have acted upon before have affected societies global view on who they are. 

Muslim protagonist above

White working-class businessman and protagonist above

The beginning shots of the opening scenes are of both the families in this short film. Both of the fathers/husbands of the families are the protagonists of the film, parallel/cross-cutting is used to change between both families as they prepare for their day. - this is the equilibrium. We can see that the man on to the left is a Muslim as his costume (Misc en scene) clearly show this. The man we see below the first image would be a stereotype of an average working man of the working class. His outfit and house suggest his class and his function in society.  Both families are of different ethnics and would both typically be stereotyped differently. 













As the families prepare for their day, there are multiple camera close-ups, two-shots and camera pans in order to include the audience, a spectator viewing. The audience may begin to feel like they are part of this preparation and some may even relate to this as part of their every-day routine. 

Above we can see that our Muslim family are of a working class too. The housing behind the protagonist appears stereotypically as a possible rented accommodation/ council housing. 

Above is a two-shot of both the protagonists in this short film. Judging by their costume and their cars (materials/props/ Misc en scene) both men are of a working-class category. This shot could be purposely used in order to show equality between both protagonists. The use of binary oppositions is shown here (Claude Levistrauss theory). The Muslim protagonist proceeds to help the other man by calling his phone in order to find out where it is, the camera focuses directly on his mobile. The close-up on the mobile may be a foreshadow for what happens next?

As our white protagonist drives away, we shown a close-up on his side-face. His facial expression appears to show some possible signs of content/mischief. He also looks as though he is showing a little guilt. His suspicious facial expressions may be an alarm to the audience, especially if they link it to the phone call.

As the white protagonist speeds away, our other protagonist looks slightly confused as to why he sped away at high speed like that. His suspicious facial expressions and the high-speeding car suggests  that he could be running from something. The long-shot shows the Muslims body-language as he appears confused as to whats happening.

A direct cut brings us to a birds eye view of a traffic jam. The diegetic sounds of emergency services and sirens builds a sound bridge through the next few shots. we cut to a specific car belonging to our Muslim protagonist who is stuck in the traffic jam.

Our Muslim protagonists facial expression shows he is concerned as to what is causing this disruption and how he is curious to find out what is happening.  

We cut to a eye-line match of the radio as our protagonist turns it on. The radio woman informs our protagonist of a bomb detonation which was detonated externally - which completes the foreshadow we saw earlier.

Narration: The key narrative is that the audience just have to follow every shot without any voice-over or narration whatsoever. This builds suspense and falls under Todorovs theory.

The Muslim man was set-up, hes now guilty of setting off a bomb which he didn't know about. This short film shows how stereotypes are used often, but truthfully the stereotypes contradicts itself, as anybody could be a terrorist or could be plotting something which will effect on a large scale. 

I believe some of the methods used in this short-film could be inspiration for my short-film ideas for our group practical. The use of binary oppositions and stereotypes appears to make short-films more interesting - like reverse role play. 

No Point - Laura Brownlie.

No Point
Directed by: Ben Hogan.

 "Ben is a keen Tennis player. Barnaby is his hopeless coach"

http://www.virginmediashorts.co.uk/film/5384/no-point#.VCPxnrFmbkd

This Film is a comedy in the style of a documentary.  This can be shown by Rick Altmans Semantic and syntactic codes

Smoking While Coaching

Semantic codes. (Documentary, Comedy)

• Interview room
• Smoking and drinking while coaching
• Hand Held Camera
• Coaches Costume
• Coaching from a book.

Syntactic Codes (Documentary, Comedy, Both)

Interview

• Voice Over
• Music
• Serving out of a plastic bag
• In the bathroom together
• Coach not knowing what he's doing (hot water)
• Talking to the camera
• Comedic stereotypes

This film variries form a normal documentary as it's has the comedic element because he can't hit the ball over the net.  The use of these to genres together create a Sub-genre, the combination of a documentary and a comedy if sometimes called a Mockumentary, or a Parody. this would be one of its unique selling points. Another unique selling point of this film would be the that it is sports related, this also brings another genre in to this film creating another hybrid.

The Main target audience would be sports fans or people who play sports of any age.  These people know what it's like to train and work hard and are more likely to get some of the smaller jokes. Like the comment about having a hot bath after exercising, where it's supposed to be a cold or an ice bath. This film would be shown at independent cinemas, at film festivals or it could be shown at some sporting events e.g. before or after a match. This would get the film out directly to its target audience.

Perfection - Laura Brownlie

Perfection

Written and directed by 

 Karen Lin.

'"I'm just trying to make you more perfect." - Mom
From infancy, an Asian American woman learns the game of perfection - but if your goal is perfection, will the game ever end?'

The first thing that is noticeable in the film is that there is no colour it is all in black and white. The black and white makes everything seam more simpler, and that she has one simple goal, perfection. 

Time from the game

Through out the film the timer on the game is counting down, each time we see the timer is in a different part of her life this is showing us it is not only counting down the game but counting down to a certain point in her life. When the timer starts the music also starts a non diajetic sound track is played over the top of the films. The music starts of very slow and quiet, But as the timer gets closer and closer to finishing the music speeds up and gets a lot louder, this builds up the ending and makes the time seam to go faster to wards the end giving the impression that she is running out of time.  The last few seconds before the timer runs out the the music slows right down and becomes quieter again, the creates a bigger impact when the timer does finish and we get the 'Bang' showing again that she a has not achieved perfection.

ECU of someone else

We never see anybody else in this film all the shots are close ups or medium close ups of her, the only

other people we see, we only see an extreme close up of part of there body of their back we never we their faces, This shows us that it's completely her story and every thing is completely focused on her.  We never see her mums face but she appears a lot in this film, and it could be looked that the mum is applying the pressure for perfection, she starts her on the game when she's a baby. Late we see the mum correcting on thing or doing them for her, and then we will see her doing it her self.

Her Mum applying her lipstick for her

Her applying lipstick herself in a later shot.

She is scene working on a number of occasions

The main character in this film is Asian, and is portrayed in some stereotypical ways, There is a stereotype saying that all Asians are good and maths and very clever, in this film we see her working hard and getting her degree. this goes along with the stereotype that she is good at maths or the subject she is taking, but it also show behind the scenes she has to put in a lot of hard work.

A Sound Bridge is use to show the passing of time For example we see her finish practicing playing her violin, and start of hear a round of applause the next shot is then of clapping hands at her performance.

Clapping starts

We then see everyone clapping.

I found this film on YouTube and looking at the comments on it show that a lot of people can relate to  it. It gives people an opportunity to look at their own life and see if they are always under the pressure of being perfect or living however they are happy. because of this I think the Audience for this film would be people in their mid 20's - 30's.

A Comment on the film showing that people do relate to it