Question 4
In the tute we screened a short film called Rolling – a film made in Film-TV1 a few years ago. In 300 words or less describe what you thought worked or didn’t .

It was a simple film, however, smart and effective. My first imrpessions of the film where positive with a few negatives here and there. I thought the male lead was a good actor and played his part very well, however I felt the female lead needed to work on the timing of some of her lines.

I particularly liked the intro to the film with the male lead walking towards the camera that dollyed out as he continued to work up the courage to ask out the woman that worked in the store.

I didn’t like the lighting in the male lead’s house in the beginning of the film, as it was too dark. I felt that could have been done better. The lighting in the food store was good however, but maybe a little too harsh for that of a romance film.

I felt that the medium close-up shots of the woman where too close in comparison to the male and it wasn’t balanced when switching views when in the food store. Her constant smile and the fact that she didn’t blink made it slightly awkward for me to watch her. I also didn’t like the angle of the male signing a document when buying the toilet paper. You coudln’t see his hand correctly as it was blocked out by his arm.

The location’s were okay, I liked the positioning of the two characters in the food store, however not so much in that of the male’s house.

Despite a few techincal issues with the film it was a nice boy meets girl love story. I particularly liked the choice of music and I felt that it matched the mood of the film perfectly. The overall feeling of the film was ‘feel good’ and it was nice that it ended on the possibility of love developing between the two.