2: 30-Still Video

Long Lost Friends


Our short film titled "Long Lost Friends" is about two university friends, Kirra and Liz, and their experience of being apart when Kirra studies abroad for a semester.

We have tried to make the best use of cine-speak as possible. I was the photographer and I tried to keep in mind the rules of:

• Head room
  
• Talking room
  
• Rule of thirds
  
• The 180° rule

Close-ups and mid-shots were used to establish the characters in the film and the fact that they were university friends. A big close-up of the email was used to convey critical information to the story that may not have been able to be shown through a simple photo of the characters, including the fact they had to say goodbye straight away, hence why there was no farewell at an airport or something similar.

Time is always a difficult thing to convey on film, especially when we shot the photos all in one day and they were wearing the same clothes... I took some photos of my university wallplanner with the dates crossed out to show the passing of time. The Facebook mesages were to try to show that they were close friends and the 6 months that Kirra was to be gone for is a long time to them.

I think our film is effective in conveying our chosen theme of "Long Lost Friends" because of the shots chosen and the storyline. Also I find that the song "Nowhere Without You" by Bob Evans really complements the film.