The Short Film Context Part V: Exhibition: Festivals

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The Script: Marilyn Milgrom

The following Prezi includes information summarised from The Script, an article written by Marilyn Milgrom, who has many years experience in script consultancy.

Notes: Antonio's Breakfast

Antonio’s Breakfast

Director: Daniel Mulloy

Issues: Great responsibility, Disability (representation), Illness, Lack of childhood, Low economic status (representation) , Neglect, mental health, isolations, care

Themes: Maturity, Responsibility, Freedom/Incarceration

Textual analysis: Camera, Sound, Editing, Mise-en-scene

Sound of machine mimicking breathing already suggests health implications

Uncomfortable beeping sound allows audience to empathise with the person, especially along with extreme close up seeing the eyes and how they portray his feeling.

Might link to issue of responsibility and care as he is not able to look after himself. 

Close ups also, might suggest it’s a huge part of life, unavoidable – also suggests how close the relationship is between the two

Close ups also emphasise the attention paid to details

Mise en scene, a little random and fairly basic- also brown/dirty in colour so can suggest low economic status from the start

The noise from the machine contrasts to the sound in the other room, where there is a fish tank, and the boy is eating breakfast on the couch.

Colour scheme/lighting changes from darker monochromatic colours to warmer tones when they are together

The fish connotes life. As it is in a tanks it is incarcerated. The boy is a carer and this might be how he feels.

Emphasised diegetic sounds that suggests closeness.

Long takes mixed with quick cuts shows the long process.

Shot of three male characters standing in silence, one is watching as one is being dragged/moving away.

Parallel editing or cross cutting

Parallel- creates tension

Crosscutting- creates abstract connection between two or more different scenes

Low key lighting with dark colours along with dark clothing- a bit funeral like?

Danger implied through graffiti’d wall and trees that resemble barbed wire

Both the woman and the group of males are seen through the glass

She is an older woman and so this might reflect upon her views and experiences of segregation

Alpha male status is confirmed when they let him through the door

Notes: Stripes

Stripes (2003)

Producer: Doug Holloway

Writer/Director: Sean Spencer

Red writing connotes blood and danger

Lettering is spaced out – already themes of isolation

Sound- loud and uncomfortable, deep, gritty and hollow

Storyline revolves around bullying, people want to know because they can relate to school bullying

It is interesting because it makes the audience see both sides and raises awareness of issue

The tension is playing out in a narrative sense- the two characters are involved in violent behaviour

Want to know why the behaviour is justified

Notes: Who Killed Brown Owl

Who Killed Brown Owl

Director(s)/Writer(s): Joe Lawlor, Christine Molloy

Dreamlike- some events didn’t make sense at all

Began with a cheerful mood, lighting and location suggested summer

A bit nostalgic at the start

Became more strange as the film continued

Tone Poem-  a composition intended to portray a particular story, scene, mood, etc.

Notes: Introduction to Short Film

A short film is similar to a feature film in that it aims to send a message, although it explores issues and themes using a shorter narrative, which usually has less characters with personal disequilibrium to explore in order to remain a short film.

All aspects- sound, mise en scene, camerawork, editing is made sure to be as meaningful as possible to show representation in a short space of time

The Short Film Context Part IV: Distribution