Morgan Steeley CPDR

     The short film I have chosen to analyse is : Gas man by Lynne Ramsey.       The main focus of the film I believe is that the dad has to take his children to a Christmas party. When they are walking there, they meet a woman with 2 children, who he then takes to the party also. I believe that all 4 children are to the same father because one of the brothers says to the sister “she looks just like you” from this is believe that all 4 children have the same dad, but are completely unaware of this. This could get the audience to think that maybe the dad had an affair with this lady and had 2 children with her, along with the other lady too. This is further acknowledged when the girls start to argue because they both say “that’s my daddy’s knee” Which to the children’s knowledge this could be a way to start an argument but they don’t actually know that they are sisters and that their dad isn’t being honest to them.                       I believe that the sort of research an

Click Here For Short Film  For this task I took it upon myself to take  the task of recording sounds. One of the main locations that I went to for this task was the moor shopping centre. I chose this location because the ambience of everyone walking past and talking made the recording sound as though it is in a busy area. I learnt that sound is an important aspect of film making. You can have different sounds and still make a video seem more interesting. For example, we recorded a seemingly empty space and placed the busy shopping centre audio over it. It gives a nice contrast of quiet and busy, which could portray many different things. For example, it is similar to the short film ‘Junktopia’ where the location looks very isolated and quiet and the added sound creates an eerie feeling to the images shown to the audience. In contrast towards the end the video reveals lots of cars. Further showing contrast. Here is a picture of one of the locations that I recorded sound for, he