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Feeling Through (Short film) I did some research to try and find short films also on the topic of homelessness and found this film. It's a story of a homeless man helping a blind and deaf man attempting to get home. The theme of which I took inspiration from and one I am trying to use in my own short film is the fact of mutual benefit in their relationship. The blind and deaf man benefits from his company and helpfulness, without which would've been difficult for him to get home, and the homeless man benefits from the man's kindness as well as the situation, as it gave him a reason to hope, with the final line telling the homeless man 'You'll be okay'.  This reflected one of the issues I had when planning out the narrative of my film, as I was worried of the controversial issues of making my homeless character feel helpless with the other man being his savior almost, so instead I decided to implement this idea of mutual benefit, neither looks down on the other, ...
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Short Film Research

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 The Ellington Kid Dan Sully uses mise-en-scene throughout the short film, in order to set up the world the characters exist in, portraying an accurate South London area. Whilst also using it to hint towards the violent end of the story, for example the sharpening of the knives, as well as the setting up of the burger. As well as this, Sully uses sound in a compelling way, as the story builds up, and the mise-en-scene becomes more and more violent, the sound mirrors this, gradually leading to a crescendo, building the tension. This use of sound, along side the threat created from the mise-en-scene creates an extremely convincing build up, leading to the eventual moment of bathos, in which we learn the story was all a joke. Sully then brings the same mise-en-scene of sharpening knives, as seen as the first shot, for the last shot, in a way book ending the film, posing the watchers to begin to question the truth.   This short film uses an interesting form of narrative, a...
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