Analysis of short films

About a Girl

Director Brian Percival

Writer Julie Rutter Ford

About a Girl is about the neglect that faces many young teenagers everyday in modern society . The girl faces issues that many young teenagers have to deal with more and more in modern day, such as physical abuse and teen pregnancies. About a Girl consists of short fast paced cuts and dialogue, this reflects the teenagers hectic life. The faced paced cuts however entwine with longer shots, an example of this is when the girl is sitting outside the pub waiting for her father, showing the girls solitude.

In 2001 it About a Girl won a BAFTA award for best short film. It was also shown at the Edinburgh International film festival where it won the award for Best British Short. It also won the TCM Classic Shorts Award prize at the London film festival, and the Jury Prize at the Raindance film festival.

Cubs

Director Tom Harper

Producer Lisa Williams

Cubs uses the the ongoing argument about fox hunting placed in modern day to shine a light on the issues of peer pressure and gang crime, shown through he main protagonist kills the fox in order to gain a reputation with the gang. The film is set in urban london to the backdrop of the lower classes, this is to emulate the theme of gang crime and street violence in modern day london.

Cubs takes a sport normally associated with the rich, upper classes and takes it out of the "traditional" light and places it in a urban setting to communicate to the audience the similarities between the blood sport and gang violence

Cubs was nominated for a BAFTA for best short film in 2006. Cubs won Best Short at Rushes Soho Shorts festival and has been shown at the Edinburgh, New York and London film festival.