5.1       Review and critique at least one short film production

Is this free?, dir. Lauris Beinerts, England, 2014.

The story outline is a person who fools around with people that want to sit next to him in public. This is a comedy skit with no particular message other than humour. The genre is non-fiction comedy.

There is light music in the background in-between scenes. The camera techniques used were a very regular pattern as it went back and forth between characters in dialogue scenes. The lighting was soft in interior scenes. The editing styles were very basic with jump cuts using scene transitions like wipes and fades.

There were plenty of well-excecuted onscreen transitions from scene to scene. The film had a variety of locations such as interior and exterior settings, these were cafes, parks and restaurants. It was set in multiple different locations.

Common tropes within the mise -en-scene were plates, cups, tables, chairs and some newspapers. The film was aimed at general people since it was comedy. The film made me laugh a bit and it worked really well with the scene and editing style, I would recommend it.