Research on a few short films.

This is another short film we studied for some research. Again the genre was a Romantic Comedy, and i liked the story behind this film. It is about a teenage boy who falls madly inlove with a girl who he never speaks to. This girl says to him 'dream on cupid' and then he dresses up as cupid and shoots her with an arrow. I loved the way the ending unraveled. Firstly the audience see what happened through the teenaged boys eyes and how he wished things worked out, and then the truth is uncovered. I liked how there was no dialogue however all the audience were aware of the storyline and what was happening, I also like the music which was playing throughout the film, contrasting to the end of the story.

http://www.atom.com/funny_videos/shoes_off/

This is a link to the film Shoe's off. Stuart, a timid 31-year-old bachelor, is inspired to break out of his monotonous existence by a mysterious woman in beautiful black boots. He crashes a stuffy cocktail party in order to meet her, but gets kicked out after an incident involving shish kabobs and red wine. It is then that he discovers that the way to a woman's heart is through her shoes. Although this film was 12-13 minuets we found it useful as research for our genre of our film.
This is a romantic comedy and the story line is completely unique and unrealistic. I found it humourous and exciting towards what was going to happen next. I liked all the different shots used and the way there is a close up frame used for the piece of paper saying that he is going 'to live life dangerously'. Throughout all films a close up shot is used when the filmers are trying to exagerate this , this is why we have planned a close up shot of the key unlocking the house and a close up shot when Amy shows Jack that she found a key.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/films/p004pyzt

This is the first short film which i have watched. It is four minuets and six seconds long and the story is ONLY focusing on two main characters and has a very simple story line which is easy to follow.
It is about a doctor who falls in love with a women who is dead. Something that i learnt from this short film is that from just watching this short film i have been able to summerise the story into just one sentence which is what we have done with our film.
Also at the start of this film it tells you that it was made according to Straight8 rules. One 58mm cartridge, no editing, unless on camera.

Another thing which i liked about this film is that the story is so easy for the audience to follow and understand, although i do not like the actually idea of a man falling in love with a dead women. There are not many locations involved and it is very basic however, at the same time very effective.
The genre of this film was a DARK ROMANTIC COMEDY.