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Short (2004)
A short short
This was an interesting short film about a train ride. Well handled and a pretty good sense of storytelling in my humble opinion. In the class I saw it in (here in NY) it was an example of story telling in a short amount of time. What was unclear was back story. Maybe the film maker wanted us to wonder who, what, why but due to the vagueness we were left missing key elements to what was going on, constantly looking backwards. The quality of this film was not as good as some of the others in the demonstration. My bet is that it could go on to show at some film festivals but not take home any grand prizes. As I said, this film was well received, but not a crowd favorite.
A Sight for Sore Eyes (2004)
A pretty nice story
I saw this film at a recent screening at a class I attended here in NY. It was a course on being able to spin a story in a tight amount of time and the instructor used this film as strong example of back story and story arch. One thing that impressed me was in this 20 min or so film, I felt like I knew everything I needed to know about all the players and cared about them all. My major is not film, but I sat with others who are majoring and they pretty much agreed that the beginning, middle and end of this short covered a lot of ground. What was a bit unclear, but may have been intentional, was what was next for the main characters. It was left for the audience to think about which was nice, but going back to my original comment, with all the back story and layout - an ending without one. We watched about 3 others and this one by far covered a back story, a character change, and a new path for the characters to go onto. A good effort and wonderful story with some respectable acting.
Kathy D