Wednesday, 14 August 2013

Short Film Research: Bombay Sapphire Imagination Series

The Bombay Sapphire Gin Company is holding a short film competition, a basic script was written encouraging short film makers to interpret the script in any way they want. The result was five high standard short films with the same script but as opposite from one another as you can get. 

Much like the evidence from my previous research the genres that are generally most successful are Dark Comedy (ROOM 8, Concrete), Social Realism (Water Song) or Animated (Crab).


"At the Tribeca Film Festival 2012, Geoffrey launched the first Imagination Series script, encouraging you to enter your film of his script. People entered from 34 countries around the world."
"The judges came together in Tribeca in September to decide on the five most imaginative entries. These winning entries below were produced and premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival 2013"







Although the films are all clearly made on a high budget that is unrealistic for a student produced film, the genre and camerawork still give a lot of helpful tips and research ideas. For example, these films were chosen by industry experts who know all too well what a good short film comprises of. A clear theme in all of the films is simplicity. There is one clear idea and subject in each film and it is the camerawork, colouring, style & editing of the film that adds the effect and interest. For example, the match on action sequence at the beginning of Concrete in which the suited man is entering the building and heading to the store room is done using several wide angle shots and several pull focus shots add intrigue which contrasts with the more jovial soundtrack.

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