Length: 03:03
Logline: A modern day fairytale where a wandering man becomes one woman's knight in shining armour.
Without much knowledge on this piece, we have a series of varied stylistic shots depicting the story of a single man's chance encounter with a young woman in dire need of help both of which later bond after he has rescued her from two thugs in an alleyway. Over which, there is poetic text superimposed, adding a new contextual layer, while a Chopin piano piece plays throughout.
It looks like this had good intentions but my main problem was where the audience is supposed to be looking. The text, which is in a terrible and not altogether clear font, distracts from the on screen action underneath. Another way it ruins the film is that each word is spelt out in a typewriter effect causing the viewers eye to linger on the text unnecessarily while waiting for each sentence to be written.
There is a nice selection of camera compositions, all handheld, slowed down to give a surrealist feel and help show passage of time. Mixed in are some black and white sequences which weren't of much interest and clearly just space fillers between scenes.
Starring two randoms, Sandy and Sonny, who do fine and look naturalistic-ish but do little to generate much entertainment, as does the rest of the film. This falls close to being experimental as I'm not sure which other audience would go for this sort of short. Again, it might have attempted at some depth but think the production side of it has let it down.
Without much knowledge on this piece, we have a series of varied stylistic shots depicting the story of a single man's chance encounter with a young woman in dire need of help both of which later bond after he has rescued her from two thugs in an alleyway. Over which, there is poetic text superimposed, adding a new contextual layer, while a Chopin piano piece plays throughout.
It looks like this had good intentions but my main problem was where the audience is supposed to be looking. The text, which is in a terrible and not altogether clear font, distracts from the on screen action underneath. Another way it ruins the film is that each word is spelt out in a typewriter effect causing the viewers eye to linger on the text unnecessarily while waiting for each sentence to be written.
There is a nice selection of camera compositions, all handheld, slowed down to give a surrealist feel and help show passage of time. Mixed in are some black and white sequences which weren't of much interest and clearly just space fillers between scenes.
Starring two randoms, Sandy and Sonny, who do fine and look naturalistic-ish but do little to generate much entertainment, as does the rest of the film. This falls close to being experimental as I'm not sure which other audience would go for this sort of short. Again, it might have attempted at some depth but think the production side of it has let it down.
Best Bit: Classical track.
Worst Bit: Text over images.
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