“Hey people! Actually I was experimenting while making a short film for our film school assignment. We were asked to make a 2 minute film showing a person who is either pessimist or optimist. I chose the pessimist one and experimented showing the whole film in pov where the character is walking in a park, beautiful locations and he is on a call with his mom and talking all the negative things. Then in park he talks to Ai with the voice feature telling the issues he is facing in the world, basically all that stuff that no one supports me people are like this that. Basically showing how beautiful the world is, he has a family who supports(on the call mom is telling good things he is the one saying everything negative, also a talk about friends come up on the call where mom asks why didn’t you go? He answers something negative). Basically he has people around, the world is beautiful yet he is always looking the negative side. Also the film is in pov and his face is never shown, while the camera in some shots comes out from the pov, because he is so pessimist that he is even afraid to show his face to world thinking people will judge. Also I thought to add a shot where he comes back at home drinks water from the glass and keeps it on table now the glass is half filled with water(half filled, half empty metaphor) then last shot I was planning a close up of a painting at his house which shows like the world and the next shot is him entering through a door, the camera is behind his back basically showing that he is again going to the same world. Now I have the clips, accept the half filled one and the last two shots, the dialogues were on phone call so we decided to take the footage in pov and will add the voice over. Now I feel like, I should do something else. Like the pov footage I have, if I could experiment something with juxtaposing them. Or maybe if we twist the lines. Help with this… I want an insight from someone I don’t know!”
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Someone answered with kindness...
Hi I hav no knowledge of filmmaking whatsoever but can I offer a small suggestion?
I think u should remove the talking to ai part. For one, it seems a little out of place and second, it normalises the use of ai for mundane, unimportant stuff like a lot of ppl already talk to ai like a friend that's very problematic and dangerous so I dont think it should be normalised
It's just a suggestion other than that I think ur idea is amazing good luck with ur assignment