Title/Year:
Signs- Short Film (2008)
Director/Birth Country/Year Born: Patrick Hughes, Australia, N/A
Budget: N/A
Gross: N/A
Synopsis: In this short, we follow a lonely single man as he goes about his boring daily life. But at the most unlikely time he happens to see a woman in another office building out his window and begins talking to her using only hand-written signs.
Narrative and Visual Keywords: Signs, office workers, silent dialogue, found love, communication.
Characterization/ Dialogue: No audible dialogue whatsoever between the main characters, they talk to each other by writing on paper and showing it to each other from across the way.
Camera/lighting/editing technique: Very simple, mostly natural light or regular indoor lighting. Normal paced editing, then its gets a bit quicker toward the end when the climax is happening.
Political/ Social Commentary : N/A
Historical Relevance/ Recognition: N/A
Notable Collaboration : The director, Patrick Hughes has used the same actors in a variety of different commercials and other stuff that he’s made.
Random fact, Etc.: Hughes also has a feature film out now called Red Hill.
Director/Birth Country/Year Born: Patrick Hughes, Australia, N/A
Budget: N/A
Gross: N/A
Synopsis: In this short, we follow a lonely single man as he goes about his boring daily life. But at the most unlikely time he happens to see a woman in another office building out his window and begins talking to her using only hand-written signs.
Narrative and Visual Keywords: Signs, office workers, silent dialogue, found love, communication.
Characterization/ Dialogue: No audible dialogue whatsoever between the main characters, they talk to each other by writing on paper and showing it to each other from across the way.
Camera/lighting/editing technique: Very simple, mostly natural light or regular indoor lighting. Normal paced editing, then its gets a bit quicker toward the end when the climax is happening.
Political/ Social Commentary : N/A
Historical Relevance/ Recognition: N/A
Notable Collaboration : The director, Patrick Hughes has used the same actors in a variety of different commercials and other stuff that he’s made.
Random fact, Etc.: Hughes also has a feature film out now called Red Hill.
1.
This movie wasn’t super crazy or anything, but
the narrative relies almost exclusively on visuals for its story. A man and a
woman communicate from different office buildings by holding up signs for each
other to read.
2.
The sound design in this film also plays a huge
role, because since there is no dialogue, it has the job of setting the mood
and such. This is more or less a silent film for the most and the music helps
drive the plot.
3.
I think this movie is about finding love, and
also about how people can communicate in more ways than just using words. They
can communicate using body language and signs as well as facial expressions.
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