Student made short films
Hunter - Student made short film
Expectations
- Hunter - Boys name - male cast
- Hunter - hunting things
- Set in a local town
- Wide shots
- Multiple cuts
- Natural lighting
- Modern, casual clothing
- Day time
- No/basic make-up
- Mystery?
- Single person cast with extras
Analysis
- Wide shot
- Medium shot
- Male main character
- bench in a park
- Abrupt switch to meadow
- Gun on back
- switch back to bench
- Second character - also male
- disappears
- switching between forest and bench
- hunting deer with gun that changes to camera
- deer turns to person - person dying
- back garden shed
- dead person in shed
- horror
- close up shots
- cuts man up
- wide shots
- throws parts off a cliff
- over the shoulder shot
- not a very original idea but played out and filmed well
Memories - Award winning Student short film
Expectation
- Dark colours
- Memories - dementia
- Memories - elderly person remembering back
- Memories - trying to remember something
- Wide shots
- Natural lighting
- Modern everyday clothes
- Multiple person cast
- No/basic make-up
- Multiple cuts
- Thriller? Non fiction?
Analysis
- Middle aged main character
- Dark atmosphere
- Lack of colour
- Natural lighting
- Film reel caught on leg shows memories
- non-diegetic music
- diegetic sound
- colours in memories
- Memories fading
- Very original and emotional
Emily - Short film winner
Expectations
- Female main role
- Modern costume
- Basic make up
- Variety of angles and shots
- Based on a girls life - Emily
- Non fiction - based on true events
- Element of sadness
- Covering mental health
- One person cast with extras
- Natural and artificial lighting - some scenes quite bright
Analysis
- Voice over - POV of main character
- non-diegetic sound
- Quick short cuts
- lots of medium shots
- non linear narrative
- Mental health
- Based in school, house
- inside and outside
- modern costume
- character expression and movement expresses sadness
- mental health is a popular choice for short films
- played out well but could have been slightly more exciting
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