Short Film (SHOT IN STAFFORDSHIRE)

[rburnsvideos]

Hi guys!

Shot a short film in Middleport Staffordshire ...about an angry skinhead hooligan

MAYBE more Mad Max than This is England!

please give it a watch and let me know what you think!

[Gareth]

very impressed by the look of it, nice and filmic, wasn't too sure about what the story was trying to achieve though?

[rburnsvideos]

Hi Gareth

Thanks for watching and commenting.

On a personal level I wanted to show the audience that there's usually a horrible past behind someone with such an Angry surface. Anger can turn you ugly. We are all bleed the same kinda thing.

I wanted to play around with satire and stereotypes with this film, especially that Stoke is seen as this racist place, partly due to a load of idiots on youtube talking about Islamic rayguns or something! aha

A few people have asked this, so maybe I haven't achieved it. I think I was tooo precious with my script.

Alot of people do emphasize the story and Skinhead ...it seems to be mostly Stokeys though

I think i've learnt a lot and looking forward and moving on to my next project!

Regards!

[jill]

Hey rburns,

I'm sort of with Gareth in my comments really.

Really liked the look of it-respect to the Director and DoP on both the choice of locations and the shots-the faded/washed out colour against the B and W-looks great. Didn't follow the narrative too well, but maybe that's the point? More about the emotional impact-how it makes the viewer feel- than story as such. I lived in Stoke for a while, so related to the film-and your comments above-a bit. The disjointed narrative aspect of the film did make me think about unfocused anger. You captured that . The film definitely has something. Can see the connection with TiE. Nice work-would like to see what you could/would do with something a bit longer... see how you would develop the narrative, or if that's not what you want to do, develop the characters.

Not sure if you used 'actors'-but the two main characters were good-real.