BlackboxTv Shortfilm - This Is For You Baby!

In the short film ‘This Is For You Baby’ Music has been used throughout the film such as at the very beginning at 0:19, this use of music helps to establish both the tone of the film as well as creating a tense and suspense filled atmosphere. The music fits in with the attempted message and theme that the film is attempting to convey throughout the film. Another use of music in the piece is in the constant flashbacks throughout the film such as 1:59 that use music in order to establish a different camera change, this is something that would be effective in our own film in the sense that we are having two different cameras and we should show this through non visual cues such as the music changing. The effect that the music gives to the entire film is adding atmosphere and the particular music adds an air of tension and suspense from the unknown.

The amount of dialogue in this short film goes against the normal codes and conventions in the sense that the film has a vast amount of dialogue; this is not very effective in the sense that this breaks codes and conventions but the budget of the film means that the effect of dialogue is gone. The reason that the dialogue doesn’t seem to work is mainly down to the films budget; short films are often very low budget and the acting can leave a lot to the imagination of the viewer. The fact that the dialogue comes across as tension and tone shattering means that for our film we should perhaps consider considerably limiting dialogue in order to keep the tension and atmosphere of our film.