Feedback MGS 25/09/2014

• Annotate your collage and explain what the images represent you as a person.
• Go back and annotate in a different colour narratives or styles that have inspired you e.g concrete, Room 8.
• How might you use these in your own work.
• Consider the narrative for your short film.

iPiccy collage

Concrete

This film uses the same script as Room 8. The script was written by oscar winning writer Geoffrery Fletcher. He wrote a screenplay with no direction and gave it to five different directors to see how they would interperet his script. Due to the fact that both of these films have the same script they have the same props, however the writer doesn't reveal what the prop does in his script he just describes it as a "red box" therefore the prop's function is revealed visually by the director. All five directors thought of completely different uses for the prop which makes all five films completely differnt from one another despite having identical scripts. I think that both "Room 8" and "Concrete" are very important short films as they show how different people interpret stories in different ways despite having the exact same script.

Room 8 and Concrete both have the same narrative as they both have the same script, however they are both presented in very different ways because they have different directors. I think that the director of Room 8 did a better job on his film than the director of Concrete did. I think that the twist has a more believiable and realistic feel to it in Room 8 compared to Concrete.

Room 8 short film.

 I enjoyed the film room 8 because in many ways it reminded me of Christopher Nolan's first short film "Doodlebug" as they have similar themes. I think that both of the actors played their characters very well but I think that the older man's performance stood out more as we know less about him which makes the twist at the end even more surprising. The film doesn't tell the viewer anything about how the mysterious red box was made but we know what it is used for. The fact that the box is red could symbolise the danger of the box or could be there to warn the protagonist not to open it. The antagonist is very reclusive and introverted in this short which makes him very ambiguous. The film leaves us wandering who the antagonist really is until the end of the short which makes the twist even harder to predict.