Short film research

I don’t know what are we going to decided so I’m doing research of both…….. Short film ok so this one I’ve done quite a bit cause they are some good ones on YouTube. 

My personal favorite 

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    This short film is about a kid finding old tapes of his mother building a treehouse with a new friend and maybe it turned to something more. I really liked this piece because they were very little dialogue and if screenwriting turns out to not be my strong suit it is nice to see a well made short film not entirely relying on dialogue and still getting the story across also I like how they didn’t have a huge production and different places and instead mainly one location, and how even without needing to move different places you can still have a full story. The clothing showing the time period as well as the effect, it’s a good representation for a romance short film. I also decided to see how they promoted this film, I found it by a short teaser posted on to TikTok that piqued my interest. Which makes sense because a lot of films are promoting there films on TikTok so why would a short film be any different.  They don’t have a separate Instagram specifically for the short film but the director made several post leading up to the release including a trailer and some behind the scenes pictures as well as pictures of scenes in the film. 

        

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This short film is about 3 girls who accidentally hit a man on the road and are trying to hide the evidence.  This is comedic and was good to watch for if we choose to take a more comedic (or even if we want to have a comedic scene) short film. Being comedic to me personally is one of the hardest things to accomplish because you need timing, as well as in a film sometimes it’s body language that you might need to show different shots for to have a full affect.

     That even having the location of a dessert the lighting was very bright making the viewer have a happier even if the theme was actually pretty dark. It was interesting to see how the director decided to show the story with flashback there for comedic timing and how the dark humor didn’t feel dark at all. To see how this was promoted I went to the Instagram and they definitely had some fun with this and you can definitely see the comedic style  it was going for, with unserious posters to behind the scenes edited specifically to make audiences laugh they set it up well in this Instagram.