Elysian Productions - Eoin

The Answers is an award-winning short film that plays with the idea of death and the afterlife. The film's perception on the afterlife is that you get to ask all the questions you've had about your life and get answers to them. There is no clear marking as to whether they go to heaven/hell. However, our film also is going to toy with the idea of finding out what happened to you. In our film, we have the character finding out when and how they died, as well as being able to go to a place that is most significant to them, and then a message from someone that knew them. This allows us to get an insight into their character, and this film does the same thing. This film is essentially a character study. You have this one character that you see throughout and you get to see snippets of his life, and how he spent it. The focus is always on this one character, and you get to see a bit of some other characters that he spent time with. In River, we don't go into as much detail o...

The film that I have chosen to analyse is Clown Face, a dark comedy by Jason Jeffrey. This is one of my favourite short films that I have seen recently and I think elements of its comedy have inspired me during the creation of River, however its cinematography is also very well done and has inspired me as well. The main focus of the film is Michael and Laurie, a father/daughter relationship that is being strained by other family issues. They discuss the breakup of Michael's marriage and Laurie expresses her disgust and dismay at Michael's recent actions, including disrupting her date. All the while, Michael is sitting with clown makeup on but hasn't noticed due to the lack of mirrors in Laurie's apartment, which she mentions towards the end of the film. Michael eventually notices when he gets into his car and checks his mirrors. I feel that the storytelling in this short is quite conventional, if described using the terms that I outlined in my previous post dis...

- Canted angle of intoxicated man, walking towards camera, camera close to ground - Falls out of frame, "hits his head" - Match on action for next shot, frontal close up of RON'S face waking up - Cut to close up shot of printer - Medium establishing shot of room as he stands up to get paper from printer, held as he looks at paper and walks out of the room. - Elipsis of him getting ready, several close ups of action e.g. coffee, coat, slippers. - Medium shot of front door, ferry man walks out then out of shot - Medium-long shot of ferry man walking into frame, looking at KEVIN - Close up zoom in on KEVIN, camera twisting, stops when RON slaps KEVIN. - Mid side on shot of both charcaters, RON begins to read as KEVIN stands up into frame - RON begins to read script, switches to shot of KEVIN looking down at his own dead body. (RON'S voice starts to fade) - (end of speech the speech) Medium shot of RON (dialogue back in focus),  as RON asks ...

When producing a film, it is important to understand who the audience for the film is, the audience are the main consumer. To understand the demographic of our audience, we constructed a survey that would ask questions about short films in general and questions that relate to the themes we want to convey in our short film RIVER. We sent this survey out over social media to friends and family in order for it to reach a large variety in age groups. This is the result of our survey. From these statistics we can see that people from the ages 15-21 are interested in low budget films and films that present death in a different way. These people usually find out about films by watching youtube, youtube advertisements and TV. Most people favour surrealism and symbolism within a short film, this is great as we can display these attributes within RIVER due to its story concept. We should target RIVER to 15-21 year olds as they consume most media online and RIVER will appear online....