NOTES ON STORY DEVELOPMENT-
KEY EVENTS - plot developments
CHARACTER ESTABLISHMENT & DEVELOPMENT
NARRATIVE ARC
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PICTURE –
SHOT DESCRIPTION
MOVEMENT
LIGHTING
COMPOSITION/FRAMING
MISE-EN-SCENE ELEMENTS
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SOUND DESIGN
CREATIVE APPROACH
DIGETIC
NON- DIGETIC
NOTES ON DIALOGUE |
Le Miroir from ramonandpedro on Vimeo.
I found Le Miroir pretty dark because the protagonist has lived in the same bathroom for the rest of his life and he gets married and he dies alone.
The plot development is pretty good because it showed a person's life in 6 minutes which I found impressive, it also reminds me of my old painting I did with a child (innocence), teenager/ adult (love), old age (loneliness) and death. It's a nihilistic outlook of life which is quite sad.
We never hear the character speak therefore it's almost like he's not important, we just see flashes of the main times of his life, the highs and lows and eventually darkness. The shots were well composed, low saturation colour palette, the set design is filled with whites, mirrors were possibly used to shoot this or compositing at green screen (?)
I liked the objects that were shown infront of the camera, a first person shooter type of technique, it reminded me of Gaspard Noe's Enter the Void (2009) where he uses a similar technique, lack of depth of field but focused on a person's hand and the object:
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| Enter the Void (2009) Still |
Le Miroir used the same technique as Caswill's Pudding Bowl with blurred vision of the old man at 04:13, and looking through his glasses, the blurred vision comes back when there's a focus pull. This is an effective technique to show the perspective of these characters that have bad eyesight.
The sounds are diegetic sounds at the beginning, such as the radio, the shaver, the rubbing of the mirror, the opening of the cupboard, a girl showering, a baby, smoking and etc. The background noise gets creepier as it reaches the end, with the old man coughing, his hand breaking the glass and bleeding, accompanied with dark atmospheric sounds.
