Short film analysis

connect
no speech, music, 5 mins long, story about a girl on a bus

locations,
my house
a train
busy park or area from high up
                                                                                 

test footage

idea of a possible metafilm
based around this film making process

maybe the film story i orriginallycame up with

sound

Music

Always look on the bright side of life - monty python, the life of brian
you will be found - benn platt from dear evan hansen

shots

Dan feels lonely and that his life is aweful
- long take of the world going by
- overlay of Dan walking slowly as the world goes by
He receives a text from an anonymous person to get on a train at a specific time,
- over the sholder shot of the phone
- text bubbles shown on screen
He bumps into a person who drops a book, he goes to give the book back but the mysterious man has disappeared,
- shot revers shot, when giving book back
- shot of train arriving, mid shot
On the train he puts the book down and it opens on its own,
- closeup of book
He reads, it turns out the book is his own story, he looks away and a quill appears with a note telling him to write your own story,
- shot reverse shot of the pen and whats going on around him
So he tests it out when he gets off the train
- cut to him getting off the train,
Arriving at home he writes that he has a really nice car,
- close up of writing in the book.
- shot reverse shot of the door
He goes and checks the garage,
- over shoulder shot of garage door
- car in mid frame
- music ???
So he goes on making his life better, until he has everything he dreamed,
- Montage
 , he learns that the life he has is fine and burns the book,
- close up of fire with book burning in it,
-  shot of him walking away
-fade to white
Wakes up, it was all a dream and he tries to make life better looking at the bright side of life
- fade in shot of him waking up, spotify - always look on the bright side of life plays,
same shot from before of him walking but this time he becomes part of the crowd.

Props

influences of short films

INFLUENCES

THE GUNFIGHTER -
Omniscient narrator - comedy - the narrator tells the story as it happens, the characters are aware of the narrator.

Curfew - dark, - sad - the protagonist tries to take his own life, nothing seen behind him when this happens, close up of his wrists to imply it.

connect -

in my film i want to take the omniscient narrator and twist it so that its something telling the story, that the characters are aware of. i also want the film to be dark yet comedic,
the dark element will come from the unhappy life that the protagonist has. and when doing this life i want to do a shot where the world is sped up around him whilst he walks alone and slow. showing his sad life.

film plan

STORY

Dan feels his life is lonley and aweful, he receives a text from an anonymous person to get on a train at a specific time, he bumps into a person who drops a book, he goes to give the book back but the mysterious man has disappeared, on the train he puts the book down and it opens on its own,  he reads, it turns out the book is his own story, he looks away and a quill apears with a note telling him to write your own story, so he tests it out when he gets off the train, arriving at home he writes that he has a really nice car, he goes and checks the garrage, it worked, so he goes on making his life better, until he has everything he dreamed, , he learns that the life he has is fine and burns the book, he wakes up and learns to look on the bright side of life.

Wong Kar-Wei

•  He brings both Asian sensibility and French New Wave cinematic techniques to each of his stories
• Born in Shanghai, China on July 17, 1958, Wong Kar-Wai moved to Hong Kong when he was five years-old. 
• His mother introduced him to many different aspects of cinema ranging from the films of Hong Kong to 1960s French New Wave. After spending two years studying graphic design at the Hong Kong Polytechnic College in 1980, he enrolled in the Hong Kong Television Broadcast Limited course for production training and he learned the art of screenwriting.
• Tang hired Kar-Wai to write scripts for various movies ranging from romantic-comedies to action films. Though they scripts were successful, and helped him to get a lot of work, it was clear that Kar-Wai wanted something more. Fortunately, it was Tang who ultimately gave Kar-Wai the chance to helm his first feature film.

Fallen Angels

• After the turmoil over Ashes of Time, and the creative spark he got over the making of Chungking Express, Kar-Wai decided to revisit a story that was originally going to be part of Chungking Express‘s third act. Fallen Angels is a multi-layered tale that explores themes of melancholy, love, and self-discovery. One story revolved around a hitman (Leon Lai) and his relationship with his contact (Michelle Reis). Though they rarely meet, the contact has affections for the hitman. Unfortunately things become complicated when the hitman tries to escape his criminal life to be with a kooky blonde-hair woman (Karen Mok). The other story involves a mute (Takeshi Kaneshiro) who ventures from various odd jobs only to end up meeting his first real love (Charlie Yeung). Kar-Wai had the two narratives collide in rather unexpected ways.

• Set in the same world where Chungking Express, and using many of the same collaborators behind the scenes, Fallen Angels featured intoxicating imagery. Christopher Doyle used hand-held cameras to emphasize the vibrant look of Hong Kong. Kar-Wai’s approach to the music was more exotic than in his previous films. He mixed Asian pop music with avant-garde sounds created by performance artist Speak My Language. The romantic tone of the film was eloquently conveyed through various songs including a cover of Yazoo’s Only You by the Flying Pickets.

• Fallen Angels premiered in Hong Kong in September of 1995 to excellent reviews and modest success at the box office. The film got a limited release in the U.S. three years later where it was championed by critics like Amy Taubin and J. Hoberman who placed the film on their list of the best films of the 1990s.

his films all have something to do with time - 2046, happy days, ashes of time ect
his theme is time

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