Research of Short Film

Strangers is a short film that is similar to ours because it also has a length of only 5 minutes. in addition the film itself actually contains no speech at all, exactly the same as ours. We found from watching Strangers that as long as enough establishing takes place then speach is not necessary, it actually makes the audience think more themselves because they have to explain the film to themselves.

Strangers is also a very simple film with not too many complicated factors, if our group wanted to go and re-enact that film we would be able to do so very easily, with a camcorder and some friends. it also uses both diegetic and non diegetic sounding, like vengeance.

Unlike Vengeance however Strangers Follows strictly to Todorov's three part narrative. There is the equilibrium when both the men are sat down recognising each other, the disequilibrium when the group of Nazis sit down, and the new Equilibrium when the men have escaped from the train and are celebrating.

I enjoyed the film strangers very much, and it gave us as a group some great pointers as to how to make a short film, but in regards of actually inspiring us, the film is based on racism, and that is a very touchy subject, that we decided as a group was best to stay away from.