The Screening

“Etterpåklokskap” or hindsight as its named in English is what I think is the most important learning tool for reflection in both real life and academically processes. After the submission of ‘Sneaker Spastic’, the time for the final Screening came. Unable to participate here, I thought I’d reflect this piece on what I saw from our ‘Sneaker Spastic’, ‘Dirty Laundry’ and ‘Cake’, and draw some conclusions on what I will bring into TV2. Having seen a few of the final short-films in the screening, these were very well produced and edited shots, and I think that our shots were not the best ones but are to be better with learning and improvement.


In ‘Sneaker Spastic’, the suggestion about color was a good one but in the end, creating the perfect color grading was a new editing skill and this skill can develop into the right flow with more experience. The intention of it was to do something different and creating a dark scene without making it too dark. However, the night theme had been confirmed and the audience felt identified. In ‘Dirty Laundry’, my main curiosity was the operation of camera technique, lighting, the directing of the actors and the final editing. How to make the actor play real and ‘unconscious’ of the faking of the disappearing laundry and how to transform the two worlds to the main character. Overall here, I think the lighting continuation was really good and the actor was directed well as well. The only thing within camera technique and production here that I would comment on was the shot from behind the actors shoulder where it looked like that the camera seemed like another second person’s angle instead of an ovs shot.


In ‘Cake’, my curiosity was how (and literally how on earth) these camera angles were done and varying the settings of the house used for shooting. Somehow, this team managed to shoot the first angle from a straight vertical birds eye view, from the top ceiling, and down to the actor, while she woke up in bed. The director made it clear that nothing was impossible in movie land and a two-human/ladder made ‘crane’ worked for this and really draws the viewer into this movie world that was being created. This trick together with the ‘God’s light’ shining from the box, the imitated ‘Aaaah!’ in angle voice style and the focus on the piece of cake were small details but important ones that demonstrated the short-films main point: this subject’s (the cake’s) world of dieting and craving sweets to get the perfect figure.

It’s all about hindsight. Happy holidays!