Influences

We did gain some influences from some of the films we looked at such as “About a girl” by Brian Percival and “10 Minutes” by Ahmed Imamovic. From “About a girl” we took the idea of the character reciting their monologue into the camera as if the camera is an omniscient character listening to this monologue. We also were influenced to not use any music over our character monologues from "About a girl" as we realised this made the monologues more dramatic, natural and realistic. Our location choices could also be seen as influenced by this film too, as in "About a girl" the locations the character is reciting her monologue are all very issolated, quite places, which is the same for a few of our monologues. Editing wise we noticed how effective the fast jump cuts were in this film too and how fluid transitions would not be as effective. This gave us an idea of the technical aspects that worked well when exploring controversial and serious issues.

The influence we gained from “10 Minutes” was the tracking shots we included in our film. What we liked about the tracking shots we saw in “10 Minutes” were that they were not the typical, smooth tracking shots used in most films but rather shaky and jumpy which made the camera more of a character. These tracking shots also made the film much more interesting as they allowed our shots to be less static and engaged the audience as they had to concentrate a bit more to follow the narrative.

Our other influences were just life and the issues we believe need to be explored in every day life. That is how we came up with the topic of fatherhood. This is as this is a topic that every one can relate to and has an understanding about.