Research and planning - REVIEW OF SHORTS

IM HERE I'm Here is a 30 minute short film, love story about the relationship between two robots living in L.A. where both humans and robots exist. the film was used as a promotion for absolut vodka with the slogan "a love story in an absolut world". the film is set in modern everyday L.A with the exception of the existence of robots which fit in with the everyday routine. the main character Sheldon who works in a library, just blends in with the background getting ignored by others. until one day he meets Francesca a female robot who catches his attention by breaking the rules. the robots then start dating when Francesca asked Sheldon about his dreams he thought it was impossible for a robot to do so. they then go to a gig where Francesca loses her arm in which Sheldon replaces it with his. the following day she loses a leg which he replaces as he said he saw it in his dream. Sheldon then gets a call to the hospital where Francesca is torn in two in which he decides to give her his body. spike jonze has shown euphoria of love with the use of music the message that i feel this film shows is that love can become a deep and painful cost. its surprising that such deep messages and emotions can be shown through animated characters such as robots. I'M HERE FILM TRAILER
MY FILM POSTER ORIGINAL FILM POSTER

RADIO TRAILER

Spike jonze trailer by molly_cormican

GEORGE LUCAS IN LOVE

george lucas in love is an 8 minute short which has elements creating a parody using characters and story line from both star wars and shakespeare in love. george lucas is creating a script for a space tragidy film, and is only days away from graduating his enemy who links closely to star wars characters taunts him with his finished piece. he finally gets inspiration from his love who encourages him the write his script. this film has comedy elements without being to jokey.the poster and film of george lucas in love seems to be alot more low budget in comparison to spike jonzes' im here.

ACROSS THE HALL

comparisons between mainstream and short film FILM POSTERS the film poster for the feature length film is much more glossy using airbrushing and photoshop merging the images together. i feel that this poster is selling the stars more than the film, as closeups of the actors have been used rather than shots relating to the film. from the poster it is difficult to tell which genre the film is from. the poster for the short film is much less glamorous with the images being shots from the film giving a more grainy effect giving authenticity to the poster. also the image at the bottom creates an enigma giving the audience an idea of which genre the film is. SHORT FILM TRAILER

Across the Hall (Short Film) Trailer from Gary Gimelfarb on Vimeo.

the trailer for the short film across the hall has a more amateur feel to it, the use of cuts and fade to black make pace to the trailer. there is a lot on tension and mystery as the trailer doesn't give to much of the film away.

FEATURE FILM TRAILER

Across The Hall Feature Film Trailer from Gary Gimelfarb on Vimeo.

the trailer for the feature film is much more dramatic with the use of a narrator i think this makes the trailer seem less tense also it gives away some main features in the film. although the use of sounds with the cuts creates a much faster pace.