Influences

The idea originally came from a poster created by the campaign Cabwise which was really hard hitting and cleverly thought out. It really encouraged me to propose this idea to my other group members. As well as this we have all recently turned 18 and have started going out more and more for the evening. This has made us much more aware of all the dangers whilst travelling home from a night out. Many young girls go out and drink with out even considering how they are getting home. A cheap cab offer from a man pretending to be a licensed cab driver is very appealing to young drunken girls waiting in the cold trying to get home. Because our narrative and story line is were we are coming from and we are similar to whom we are trying to target it i feel we were at an advantage and was able to produce something much more appealing.

Over this unit of short films we researched, viewed and analysed many. One in which strongly influenced the visual style and dialogue of our short film, ‘About a girl’. Our script similarly follows the misleading aspect of ‘About a girl’s dialogue. Both our main charatcer and their main character from ‘About a girl’ start off talking about personal interest and everyday life, the girl from ‘About a girl’ speaks of her ambition of becoming a pop star and her family and our actor starts talking about her night and the events of her evening. As the films both carry on they start revealing the truth about their lives and what distress they have encountered. Shots then interveen revealing more of the truth and helps uncover narrative and parts in which the characters may not want to share. We also used the monologue style within our short film which is also used in ‘About a girl.’ In both shorts, these monoluges shots are either mid or close ups which can and are quiet personal shots. It misleads us as we get the impression we are close to them and are going to hear some thing private but the first part of dialouge is something so simple. This technique helps prepare the audience for something that is personal like a secret. Both our short and ‘About a girl’ hold a “slap in the face” narrative with the beginning being very misleading.