PRE-PRODUCTION: 6th February: Research

They have created the characters as feeling isolated and alone by using a slow tracking out shot while they provide a voiceover on there negative opinion of themselves:

They have used props such as tablets to represent they have a disorder:

At the end of the film they repeat the shots tracking away from the characters where they are speaking empowering words such as: 'i'm not an illness i am someone' 

This is a very powerful statement and will move an audience, we must make sure that the script for our voiceover is also very emotion evoking and true.

I love one of the starting shots, it uses shallow depth of field so that the background is blurred and she is in focus, this means the audience will feel connected with her and it also shows her as feeling quite isolated.

This film has used fade outs to transition between shots, it makes the transitions look very smooth and calm.

They have used CU and shakey camera movements when the girl in the film feels anxious and uncomfortable, a very easy way to convey her inner feelings through camera movement.

Her non verbal language was very clear in communicating her anxiety, such as this shot where she is biting her nails:

Also she was very fidgety moving her feet and rubbing her legs with her hands:

The use of high angles made her look weak and helpless to her anxiety:

Sound has been very cleverly used in this short film, as her mood changes so does the pitch and tempo of the different background tracks. They have used sound to their advantage, it is quite subtle music nothing to over empowering, I think using music similar to this will also work well with our short film. As well they haven't used any dialogue which means the audience's attention is fully visual which made me notice the tiny details of the sequence such as camera work.