First Major Project - Research post 1/3

apologies for how late this is, i take a lot of notes, writing up research properly always feels wasteful, this is my research page on three short films and how they have influenced my writing.

three sections, three shorts.



PLURALITY
Directed by: Dennis Liu
Written by: Ryan Condal
Produced by: Jonathan Hsu, Dennis Liu
link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzryBRPwsog

a short about an over-networked, over-controlled NYC, following a futuristic detective specializing in "pluralities", examples of more than one instance of a person, slightly dystopian in tone, an interesting watch, with some interesting questions regarding social media and government powers relating to networking.

What I really like about this film is its tone, and its pace, if there's one thing I had hoped I would take from it, it would be its pacing, its constantly moving, this is something i hope to incorporate in my own script, its ability to constantly shift locations and focus, another thing I tried to incorporate is its colours, the slightly blue tinted colour creates this brilliant futuristic mis en scene, as blue tinting usually does.



SALON SHOOTOUT
Written and Directed by Thomas Ridgewell 
Cinematography by Ciaran O’Brien
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUniJxIe2YI

Salon Shootout is a short comedy film about an agent hunting aliens who work in a salon, things degenerate into a shootout. the comedy comes from its puns, almost every line from the main character is a pun, its parodies several different genres of film in one sitting.

from this I had hoped to have taken its comedy timing and self awareness, for a good dramedy like the kind im trying to write, timing is key, self awareness doubly so. This film knows its silly, it knows its cliched and it knows its story is paper-thin, and that kind of self awareness is something I need my film to come across as.



SUBSTANCE
Written and directed by Ben Green.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwX6CzrLVak

 Substance is the story of two young friends, one who takes care of the other far too much, the other having some serious drink and drug issues, generally its a heartrending short, emotional and poignant.

I watched this film to help me get a better understanding of how younger relationships work, my own social life was strange between 17 and 20, partially non-existent and partially just plain weird, so watching shorts that converse about hard questions allows me to better understand how young people deal with tough situations, I was never good in social situations due to numerous issues and this film, and others helped me to figure out how to write someone in the weird gap in my social life.