Short Film Primary Research #10- 'A New Beginning'

The last short film I will be researching and analysing is 'A New Beginning', which is another student piece produced for their A2 coursework.

I think that this short film had very sharp, professional cinematography that made it look like a real film. The colour grading was also sharp, and along with the neatly filmed footage, they have produced very clean and respectable aesthetics for their short film. The short film was therefore more enjoyable to watch due to the fact it looks very nice on-screen. In the opening sequence when the main character is walking towards the camera and talking to his associate, the colour correction is very clean and crisp and makes the short film look substantially well made. The way they filmed it is also good because the framing is carefully selected and what is in the middle of the frame is constantly changing, relating to what is important on screen. Such as, when the new villain comes into the scene, he walks over to be in the centre of the frame, making the audience focus on him.

There is also a good mixture between diegetic and non-diegetic audio. There is audio of footsteps and leaves crushing whilst the person is treading in the woods, whilst over this is a suitable, spy based piece of soundtrack that helps add to the story and narrative. This mixture of audio types is good and it makes the students more weary of what makes their scene more compelling and appropriate in terms of keeping the audience interested in the action on-screen.

However, a criticism I have on this short film is the final fight scene seems very choreographed. However, pulling off a successful and realistic looking fight scene in an amature short film is very hard to do, and what they ended up having is still considerably good.  They also have used a good range of diegetic sound effects that makes the fight scene look a bit more appealing and realistic.

There also isn't much storytelling and narrative occurring, but the style they use and relatively rich content helps make up for this. Overall this is a good short film that is filmed very well and is also edited and colour corrected to a high standard.