5 minute film analysis.

*One 5 minute film I looked into was Mike Leigh's 'Meantime'. Mike Leigh is an established director, his previous work includes Vera drake and Calenda girls. Both brittish drama's which include big cast's and detailed scripts. In 'meantime' its central focus is on one character; a elder man who was a war fighter. You wouldn't of had long enough to form a relationship or understanding with more than 1 character in five minuits so through the 1 a connection can be formed. I found music is very significant, sums up in a minute the tone and atmosphere of the piece, in this case very deep and meaninfull. Meantime appeared more artistic than feature films, there was aural repetiton of the character saying "If I was old enough to do my time in the army, I would be alright by now". I found speech wasn't that important in the film, but in order to get the message across in this case the repetition of kep phrases was really hightened throughout. Camera shots included more close ups, upward and downward tilts and arcs around the room. The sett in Meantime was prodominatly the characters living room, very 70's decore and old fashioned appearence. Mise en scene is really vital whereas in feature films it doesn't need to be thought of so much. The sett gives you a instant snapshot impression in the 5 minuits you have. The genre of 'meantime' I found was drama but arthouse, as was experimental with displaying the characters emotions.

*When watching Rob Brandons 5 minuit films, you could tell that they were heavily influenced from what he specialises in; music vidoes. In particular a movie called 'dead leg', was filmed all in black and white. It focused on the mind and childhood influences. In this case it didn't have a central character. More a montage of images and people sharing the same emotions. It had a vague feel to it which enabled you to question more without being answered, whereas most feature features have to have a defined script or conclusion to whats happening. I feel this five minuit film didn't have any form of genre. If it had I feel it would have made it more effective.

*Also discovered from google videos a 5 minuite film called 'intrugment' like art house films it takes a simple concept and focuses in on them. In this case literall things such as pooring milk,driving,dolls and jumping. The intrugment of visually experimenting from film with them. For instance milk being poored backwards or a jump in slow motion or fragmented. The film includes 1 character which performs all the intruging acts. We can then relate to him. In regards to music, from all I have seen its key to the short films. There have been no mainstream songs though all abstract electronic,classical or foreign melodies. This makes them appear to follow a arthouse genre and alternative audience. The shots and editing in 'intrugment' are all very technical; it has an old fashion film effect which I havn't seen in any feature films. The cuts of scenes are very abrupt and fast pace as there isn't enough time for long length scenes.

Overall, five minute fims appear much more artistic than feature films. Words arn't so vital but aural sounds are. Lots of drawing and hand made art was apparent, giving it an arthouse feel and really creating an instant snap shot impression and tone is key, so the audience can understand in the short time they have.