Evaluation
Throughout the process of creating and finalizing the idea for my short film, there were a lot of different outside influences that helped inspire the narrative I chose to move forward with. The collection of short films we had to watch and analyse really helped me solidify the experimental style that I ended up going with in my own film, taking a lot of elements both narratively and form-wise from The Grandmother by David Lynch and Meshes of the Afternoon by Maya Derren. Both these films and a few other media influences that allowed me to explore different elements of film form and develop a plot that’s both interesting and ambiguous. The cyclical narrative of Meshes of the Afternoon made the short film stick out to me as more experimental and strange. It has an almost dream-like haze over the whole thing, and the film form and cinematography push this even further. The multiple close ups of different mise-en-scene elements, all of which play a very important role in ...