Project Choice

 

Dearest Blog, 

I'm back again, and I'm so ecstatic to be here.  This has been one crazy last senior year... but I'm ready to get started on this project! I've been waiting to experiment and explore, so I'm taking a risk and choosing to make a short film.

My primary goal for this project, since there's only 5 minutes, is to keep it short, simple, and clever.  As I may have stated previously, I'm a content creator and I love storytelling in different forms but I've never experimented with the creation of a short film.  I believed my movie had to have some "complex" storyline and "intricate" storytelling but as I started to research and dive deeper into the topic, I soon realized that most of them don't have to be that way.

No Me Ama Short Film (Dir. Martin Piroyansky 2012)

This first short film is a student film that I really enjoyed because most of the conflict was happening in the protagonists head.  The story starts with the boy and the girl traveling together, and they encounter several trials and tribulations down the line. Most of the conflict there is either proving or disproving his belief that "she doesn't love [him]." 

So on the outside, his girlfriend seems to love him and show him through her actions, ex: cooking/caring for him, she just doesn't outwardly say it. We are viewing the film through his inner voice's perspective, but the irony lies in the fact that we see so many things going right in this relationship that it's hard to believe he's getting so in his head about the relationship. 

The film drags on and is guided by his inner monologue, until the very end when he recites in his mind "I'm going to break up with her, before she can break my heart." Then when it was finally time to say what was on his mind, he says "I LOVE YOU!!!!" She replies with, "I love you too!"

What makes this film clever in my eyes is the fact that it commenced with the boy's assertion that his girlfriend "doesn't love him." It was clever because it taught us that our reality may not always be the truth, and we musn't let those destructive thoughts consume our mind.

Table 7 Short Film (Dir. Marko Slavnic 2011)

This next short film quickly became one of the best short films I've seen, because it immediately checks off all the marks; short, simple, and clever. It has two locations, (the restaurant and the office) and the storyline is short yet clever and creative. 

In sum, the story begins at a Chinese Restaurant where a couple is having dinner on the brink of a breakup. What they don't know is their whole conversation is being carefully listened to.  Towards the end, we realize there's a whole system created in order to successfully deliver the right message within a fortune cookie.  This is absolutely unethical and an invasion of privacy, but it holds a more positive effect and results in securing the welfare and satisfaction of their customers.