Having to find three short films I immediatly decided to go to youtube and have a look at what was avaiblable.
The first I came across was a short online film called 'Black Button' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrKnhOJ-R80
It is about a man waking up after an accident and he is presented with the choice of pushing a black button to get $10,000,000 of course the downside is one person on earth will die if he presses it. It is a pretty cool premise naturally focusing on the choices we have to make and the idea of temptation and greed. I found the acting wasn't amazing on the waking man's part, but the man who is providing him with the choice plays the role of diving like being with no morals good or bad. Of course the movie has an ironic twist ending like many dramatic short films and I'd say te twist was pretty good if not a little predictable but it covers the theme of an afterlife quite well.
The second short film was titled Fallen Angel and was an animated film about the end of civilisation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbr-yajq1ao
It covers a girl walking through a bleak destroyed city with her inner monologue talking about 'everything taken from her'. We then see numerous scenes depicting how the world ends with battles and riots before eventually nuclear weapons are deployed. Eventually we see the girl before the war started and how the changes came suddenly and affected her. She travels around while her town is attacked trying to survive. The film definetely gives a survival theme and has a very thinly veiled anti-war message. The animation is very good and the music is incredibly simply but used to great effect.
The third short film was called Vrienden http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86ZmJel27I And was a comedic short film about two neighbours trying to make each others lives hell.
Straight away we see one of the men walk outside to his car which has been messed with in many different ways and the way he just casually fixes thinsg shows that clearly these to have been doing this for some time. The two men try to anooy each other in various ways throughput the piece including bricking one of their doorways up and one accidentally drills the other in the eye. The humor of this piece is mostly quite subtle and the oure unexplained hate between the two is a source of hilarity. I liked this piece it wasn't that funny but it was still very enjoyable.
As for the week four lecture content we discussed the in depth history of film and how it has evolved from the silent era when black and white talkies were the height of film technology to the eventaul first broad band movie release of 2007. We talked about many of the way the web could become a tool in filmmaking and how short films really flourish due to the intrnet. I agree that one of the problems with film on the internet as there is nothing to stop the poor films being made and distributed as there isn't any kind of quality threshold.
It also interested me that there were numerous examples of filmakers who had actually made their name with online films such as '405' and 'George Lucas in Love.'
I also agree that as of now the internet is not a good medium for feature films though it is definetely a great place for the creation of short films.
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