Henry's NEA Blog

Representation:   I have created a short film showing the contrasting lives between that of a wealthy individual, and someone much worse off. In order to portray to the  audience  the severe differences between my two characters, I made use of the microelements of film form. The setting is the most prominent part of mise-en-scene that helps me show the difference between their lives. With one waking up in a horrible ,  abandoned building, and the other in a warm looking double bed, it is instantly clear that they are two very different people.      In a similar way to this, I have used costume to put one character in a clearly more privileged position (by wearing a suit) whereas the poor homeless man is wearing scruffy looking, dirty clothes. In one part of the film, I attempted to use both props, and character expression to show the more specific differences between their lives, the rich man had to drink tap water as he had run out of juice and was clearly not pleas

Final Film I am relatively happy with this, however, unfortunately, I was not allowed to film in a shop so had to improvise and make a jigsaw stand as that is all I could do at short notice, this is certainly a shame since if he could not afford food it would be a lot more emotional.