Research Task 6

Conversation Piece (Tunmer, 2009)
Social Realism/Comedy Short film
More info about the film

1. Set-up stage involves many extreme close ups of props: clock, newspapers, ornaments associated to the home and actions e.g. the husband chewing his toast and his eyes' reading the newspaper.
   
2. BCU of the husband's face invading the screen quickly
   
3. Sound-bridging of the kitchen noise to allow different rooms of the house to be shown. Medium long shot of the wife in the kitchen cooking. Stereotypical roles in the house for realism effect
   
4. Jump cuts used to speed up the process of playing the music on the gramophone
   
5. After all the extreme close ups, it concludes the set up by using extreme long shot at eye level of the husband sitting in the living room. Importance of the living room mise en scene
   
6. GREAT IMPORTANCE OF THE NON DIEGETIC SOUNDTRACK! VERY CLEVER TECHNIQUE!
7. Eye-levelled frames to allow realism.
   
8. The power of silence is important as it makes a change of mood. Sound effects of the clock as she kisses him
   
9. Slow tilting movement of the broken vase= mystery of the prop
   
10. Costumes symbolise their different personalities: Husband in his dressing gown, Wife in a blouse and skirt (even to the tiniest detail of the Christian necklace)
11. Naturalistic lighting as there are shadows in the frames
    
12. Quick tilting up and down movement of the close ups of the husband (sitting in the chair) and wife (standing behind the chair) talking to each other. confrontation
    
13. Importance of depth of field within the frames: vase is sharp and the man is out of focus emphasising the vase being placed down on the table and allows the audience to understand the agenda of their conversation.

Inspirational:
The technique of using the soundtrack as the dialogue is very creative and we could possible try to copy this idea. Although, we will need to spend a long time in editing suite matching the movement of the mouths to the jazz music. Music video? I loved the tilting movements and depth of fields within each frame allowing the audience to concentrate on certain props in the room.