Analysing short films has helped me to gain an understanding about how to capture an audience and get them involved and excited about a narrative in a short space of time. Analysing short films has also helped me gather inspiration for my own short film.
Watching the short films 'Influences' and 'Escape' influenced me to use animation in parts of our film. I felt that these two films were unique and different and this was helped by the use of animation and editing used throughout the films. The animation helped to highlight key moments within the films and this is what we are hoping to do within Flight, we shall use animation to help engage the audience with the characters actions and to also to add a sense of surrealism.
When watching Loved On Water I loved the way the director only chose to frame parts of the main characters body at the beginning, this technique is called fragmentation. We shall be doing this for the first part of our film when Sophie is walking to the dance studio, concealing her identity at first to add interest and mystery.
When watching Heart Work the locations really inspired me, the dark atmosphere with the bright lights in the background were really visually appealing. We have decided to take inspiration from these scenes and are going to try and re-create them when filming our 'street' scenes.
