Loved it. The concept that she was in love with two people at the same time is very interesting. Liked that the story was taken forward through the narration.
You chose two actors who really fit together just like the movie intends to portray : the way you filmed them is extremely intimate and respectful, the storyline is relatable and very deep because people do connect all the time and not always because there is a meaningful explanation. I find it very touching and emotional, maybe you have experienced the feeling yourself and you are able to express it so vividly?I certainly recognise it in every aspect and it makes me ache and yearn for what I have lost. I hope you would agree with me that is one of the greatest achievements for any artist. I deeply admire you
Can’t thank you enough for the kind words! I wrote this story because something very similar happened in my life and it still hurts even nearly 8 years later. I’m so glad others can relate and have an emotional reaction to the film! Thanks again
Absolutely loving your work, Blue Sunday was incredible too. I was just wondering, as a last shot, how do you think it would have worked if Her old bf and the new bf > M.W. 2 Shot > Old bf walk into frame from left and new bf walk into frame from Right Re: 00.50 and the two men shake hands? Dont know what angle you were going for but this talk of loving two people is very close to something called Polyamory and the two men shaking hands implies she gets to have both. Love the ending as it was but was just wondering what your thoughts are on this additional shot.
Nicely shot, but the film felt like it heavily relied on the narration to carry it forward/the narration was the spine of the film, and it came off a bit preachy, cheesy and cliçhed in my opinion. What would of added depth here to what seems to be a dramatic love story would be if you had 'him' and 'her' have their own ideas of what made a relationship work and have the differences build the conflict and be the source of the break up, its called 'character variation on a theme', rather than some convenient text from bf and photos of a past love....that does'nt build as much tension / conflict! Also why cant we hear what the girl and her past lover are talking about in the cafe...that would of added some insight into this character and as to why she went back to him maybe!
Thanks for the comments. I think the idea was that they were so in tune with each other, even looking back at their relationship, they thought and felt the same things. We didn't want to tell a story where 2 people had a bunch of differences that led to a break up, but to show that sometimes it doesn't work out and it's no ones fault. They didn't have a ton of differences, and she even says that a door had opened that she thought was closed. Our hope was that people could relate to that. We also didn't want to spoon-feed the audience more than needed. Hopefully people can see from their actions that she's apprehensive at first, but after a while she falls back into it with her ex and lets herself feel for him again. Why "tell" when we can show?
+Mike Reda in life break ups always involve differences, whether it be emotional, visual, intellectual, physical etc. theres is always a reason it doesnt work out, to say it doesnt says that feelings, emotions, opinions have no meaning. In my opinion you did spoon feed the audience, with so much monologue it leaves nothing up to the viewer whenever each of them is on screen. in regard to yor last point, you showed two peoples mouthes move, "show don't tell" does not involve dialogue with the sound turned off it involves blocking of actions and reactions that tell a story!
+Richard Desmond Oh, I'm not saying break ups don't come from differences. I'm not sure how you can think after watching this film that I would suggest that emotions and feelings don't matter. Quite the opposite. And yes, we are telling the audience the things these two characters love about each other, but what did you need to hear during that coffee shop scene that you couldn't infer from their actions? That dialogue wasn't important. Nor was any of the "dialogue" in the other scenes. The voice over, as you said, drives the story.
Loved it. The concept that she was in love with two people at the same time is very interesting. Liked that the story was taken forward through the narration.
You chose two actors who really fit together just like the movie intends to portray : the way you filmed them is extremely intimate and respectful, the storyline is relatable and very deep because people do connect all the time and not always because there is a meaningful explanation.
I find it very touching and emotional, maybe you have experienced the feeling yourself and you are able to express it so vividly?I certainly recognise it in every aspect and it makes me ache and yearn for what I have lost.
I hope you would agree with me that is one of the greatest achievements for any artist.
I deeply admire you
Can’t thank you enough for the kind words! I wrote this story because something very similar happened in my life and it still hurts even nearly 8 years later. I’m so glad others can relate and have an emotional reaction to the film! Thanks again
That was great! To see my second cousin (Courtney) Doing so well in her acting is amazing!
Absolutely loving your work, Blue Sunday was incredible too. I was just wondering, as a last shot, how do you think it would have worked if Her old bf and the new bf > M.W. 2 Shot > Old bf walk into frame from left and new bf walk into frame from Right Re: 00.50 and the two men shake hands? Dont know what angle you were going for but this talk of loving two people is very close to something called Polyamory and the two men shaking hands implies she gets to have both. Love the ending as it was but was just wondering what your thoughts are on this additional shot.
Which parts are with the fs7?
The whole film was shot with the FS7. However, we also used an anamorphic adapter which really softened the image.
Nicely shot, but the film felt like it heavily relied on the narration to carry it forward/the narration was the spine of the film, and it came off a bit preachy, cheesy and cliçhed in my opinion. What would of added depth here to what seems to be a dramatic love story would be if you had 'him' and 'her' have their own ideas of what made a relationship work and have the differences build the conflict and be the source of the break up, its called 'character variation on a theme', rather than some convenient text from bf and photos of a past love....that does'nt build as much tension / conflict! Also why cant we hear what the girl and her past lover are talking about in the cafe...that would of added some insight into this character and as to why she went back to him maybe!
Thanks for the comments. I think the idea was that they were so in tune with each other, even looking back at their relationship, they thought and felt the same things. We didn't want to tell a story where 2 people had a bunch of differences that led to a break up, but to show that sometimes it doesn't work out and it's no ones fault. They didn't have a ton of differences, and she even says that a door had opened that she thought was closed. Our hope was that people could relate to that.
We also didn't want to spoon-feed the audience more than needed. Hopefully people can see from their actions that she's apprehensive at first, but after a while she falls back into it with her ex and lets herself feel for him again. Why "tell" when we can show?
+Mike Reda in life break ups always involve differences, whether it be emotional, visual, intellectual, physical etc. theres is always a reason it doesnt work out, to say it doesnt says that feelings, emotions, opinions have no meaning. In my opinion you did spoon feed the audience, with so much monologue it leaves nothing up to the viewer whenever each of them is on screen.
in regard to yor last point, you showed two peoples mouthes move, "show don't tell" does not involve dialogue with the sound turned off it involves blocking of actions and reactions that tell a story!
+Richard Desmond Oh, I'm not saying break ups don't come from differences. I'm not sure how you can think after watching this film that I would suggest that emotions and feelings don't matter. Quite the opposite. And yes, we are telling the audience the things these two characters love about each other, but what did you need to hear during that coffee shop scene that you couldn't infer from their actions? That dialogue wasn't important. Nor was any of the "dialogue" in the other scenes. The voice over, as you said, drives the story.