Title:'Finite'. Directed by Eric Hyland and Dusty Culbertson.
"When a relationship is forced to change, how does one come to terms with the past and reconcile? Ultimately, relationships like life simply exist, persist, and endure for a limited period of time"
(source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6VTsuoBk3M).
I came across this film from searching top short films in google and found the above summary intrigueing. Alot of us can relate to love, loosing someone special, a broken heart or trying to let go of the past and move on into the future. I felt this short film represented these common life experiences and human feelings in a very emotional and engaging way.
The 8:52second piece conveys it's emotion through elements such as the soft song that play's the entire way through, continual close ups (showing the detailed/deep emotion and expression of the character's) flashbacks (illustrating the character reminising on past times and longing/hoping it could still be that way in the present) long shots (which display the beach location where memories took place) alterations of slow to fast pace takes (represeting change in emotion from past to present) along with scenes fading in to one another (presenting a thoughtful feeling). All of these editing decisions helped present an overall touching sense to this short film. I found 'finite' conveyed a strong sense of the emotions of love, loss and longing.
As the famous saying goes, 'it's better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all'.
I chose this film as I found it original and attention grabbing. The sequence of events (story line) was made more interesting and thrilling by how the fast paced action was filmed and edited. The fast paced music, (which would speed up during more intense action scenes, with the faster beating of drums)a hand held camera effect, (giving the chase scenes where the actors were running, a more realistic effect) and slow motion shots were just a few of the editing techniques which contributed to heightening the interest, suspence and overall entertaining effect of the film. Also it was interesting how when the main actor turned a corner his shirt would change and showed a new person chasing him. I thought this was a clever effect. This short film was a completely different genre from 'finite'.
Title: 'Ten Minutes'. Director: Ahmed Imamovic.
"This short film, as its title indicates lasts only 10 minutes, but it tells a much longer story which unravels only in our imagination upon seeing the end of the film. While 10 minutes in someone's life mean nothing, they can be fatal in another: a boy and his loving family, tragedy in a war-torn city, death and destruction. All in just ten minutes. The film follows two simultaneous story lines: one set in Rome, and one in Sarajevo, in 1994, the worst time of the war in Bosnia...Was not by chance that it won the award for the best European short film in 2002. 10 minutes for me is definitely one of the most moving and powerful films about wartime Sarajevo". (Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppAn0LNU_V8).
I found the above summary drew me to this film, firstly because it was completely different from the first two films (although it's emotional appeal did correlate with 'finite', although in a completely different context) and also for the issues it represented. It is crazy how one's life can be completely changed in the small period of ten minutes. Wedding proposals, birth, death, relationship break ups, winning the loto..these are all life changing events which can take place in a small window of time.
The film showed how in one scenario a man is waiting for his photo's to be developed in a 10min time slot and then within these minutes a child's life is forever changed when his family is killed in his war torn nation.
An upbeat song was playing in the scenes where the man was getting his photos developed, this shifted to slow mustic and dark lighting with the scenes where the young boy was in. Wide shots were utilised to present a clear image of the location/surroundings of the war torn town and fast shots were implented in the action scenes. Again all of these editing choices helped to convey a powerful image and construction.
Overall I found the film delivered a strong message which made you realise how you never know what is around the corner, to not take life for granted as things can change at any moment and also made me realise how lucky we are to live in a safe country where events like this are foreign to us.
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