Short Film Research: Pregnant Pause by Alice Seabright/ Drama

 I researched for drama short films on Short of the week. I found all four on this same website. The first I selected was a 13 minute movie about a girl whose boyfriend at the time gets her possibly pregnant. However, she doesn't have kids, but her boyfriend does. He makes her not wanting kids a deal breaker, so she leaves the apartment. Throughout this movie there were certain things that stood out. This includes: At the beginning, to give reality to the film, they include peeing sounds as she is sitting on the toilet taking the test. To make it more realistic as well, they include her heavily breathing as she is taking the pregnancy test, like most do in this same situation. Her outfit consists of pjs which makes it seem like it wasn’t planned. The setting includes a bedroom, bathroom, street, etc. During the conversation with her boyfriend just before she leaves, there are many two shots, and reverse shots during their conversation. Doing this allows the audience to see who is part of the conversation, as well as their reaction and emotion. There are multiple jump cuts, and only a couple of action shots. For example, she was riding the bike and the camera was tracking her, however, she was hit by a car and it cut to her bleeding sitting down. There were a couple things I didn’t like. For example, the way they filmed it. At the beginning there was not any music at all. The only time a music sound played was when the production company came up. Otherwise it was just silence and conversations. This will not be a part of our movie. We are choosing to play music the whole time. Time to go watch the next short film!!

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