The analysis of my new work [friendship] part I

1. Title

I decided to use "Friendship" to be the title of this story because it's very ironical. Actually, there is no friendship in the story.

Ostensibly, three characters are talking very happy and fair-spoken in the first story. However, in the next two stories, they don't like each other actually. In other words, they are not really friends. They even dislike each other very much.

But they still have dinner together. Mary cooked for Amy. Amy bought gifts for Mary and Tom. Though they hate this night, they looked enjoy dinner very well. According to this fact, I believe could be a very interesting and double-edged remark title.

2. screenplay


The first draft of screenplay created last year. At that time, I wrote a simple story just about dinner. There are not so many emotions in it. And I thought it can be a six minutes short film. I discussed this story with Shupeng Yuan, my classmate. And he thought it's too simple. It will be very boring film if we work on this screenplay. So I laid it down and focus on other works.

In February, when we decided to have a small film festival I remembered this screenplay again. I still believe it is a good story. The problem is too simple. I can improve it, make it more mature. So I started to write it again. And this time, I connected it to my project-character's emotion. I put more emotion plot in the screenplay and it would be ten minutes work.

I wrote the first draft and the second draft in Chinese. Because the characters speak Chinese in the short film. And I translated it in the third draft. In the final draft, I improve some language.

3. cinematography


I'm interested in using fixed lens very much so I used a lot of fixed lens in this work. I think fixed lens could help audiences recognize the scenes and the character. The cameraman is Shupeng Yuan. He is very good at shooting. So I can totally believe him.

On the other hand, when I wrote my shooting script, I used some direct skills. Just like: a. Use car(object) to help transfer the scene. b. Make the picture and sound separated. It's an effective skill to present emotion in the story.