Watching short films

I have just been watching some short films to give me an idea of what other people have made and how they did it and what ideas they had. These are the ones I watched:

This short film is called Strangers and was the first one that me and Rabbi watched, the film was mostly silent and I think it worked very well and so we think that we will have hardly any speech in our short film because we like the effect that silence has on the film and we think that with ours being social realism, having little speech will be appropriate in getting the right effect.

This short film is brilliant, the director has got random people from the street and simply filmed them, we hear them say their name and the way this short film is made and directed makes the audience feel like they have got to know all the people before the 'question' is asked. The way it has been made is so effective. The people are all asked what they would like to happen by the end of the day. Simple question and so many different answers. This is most definitely one of my favourite short films. Our short film is based on a question, but we didn't get the idea from this short film, we just liked that idea in general and so since watching this short film I think the effect will be good.

This was also a very quiet film and most of the 'dialouge' was done by the characters holding up signs to each other, because they were communicating from two different buildings, by seeing each other through the window. When watching this short film you really start to feel for the main character and you want him to do well in his life and to be happy. To start off, he is very lonely, which is an issue that all f our characters will have in some aspect of their life.

This short film is called 'The black hole' is basically follows a man who is at work and the printer he is near prints out a piece of paper with a black hole on it. he soon discovers that he can put his hand through this black hole and it will let his arm go through anything. He then uses this to his advantage by putting the black hole against a vending machine and reaching in and grabbing the food and taking it out again. He then starts to get greedy and uses it to get inside a safe full of money, he puts his whole body inside the safe but unfortunately the piece of paper becomes unstuck from the door of the safe and the man is then trapped in the safe. This is a very very short film and only lasts 2 minutes 49. But it is a nice little story about getting to greedy. It didn't give me and Rabbi any inspiration for our short film but i enjoyed watching it. 

I think this short film is very clever and energetic. The basic plot is about a man who is asked to take a picture for a family, but right after he has taken the picture he runs off with the camera and we see him being chased by the camera owner. Throughout the chase he continues to take photos of the man chasing him. we then notice that the person chasing him keeps changing, and we then realise that he does this regularly, he steals camera and takes photos during the chase. The short film ends with the man displaying the photos he took in an art gallery as an exhibition.