One of the selling points of short film series on the internet, is the idea that they are short and can be digested on the go; in particular I remember one of the things about this project being that it puts Shakespeare in the pockets of people waiting for buses, or having a few minutes to kill. Despite this though, the music and the tone of sonnet 28 is such that I probably should not have watched it early in the day before my coffee. The film has a very dramatic tone to it and I was a little shaken by how this comes across in the music and in the look of the piece.
The sonnet sees a man tortured day and night by the distance from the one that he loves. To show this we have a man restless in a park late at night; he is trying to find some peace in his memories of a beautiful day with a beautiful woman, but instead he has both a spotlight and darkness on him. In terms of how the piece is delivered I actually liked it a lot; the music and disruptive spotlight convey a sense of torment which give energy to the words. The lead actor David Blatt looks suitably frantic and tussled, and his delivery of the text suits this. The sound is okay – not great but not too bad considering the nature of the shoot.
The use of light is quite impacting in terms of the spotlight torch being used; it does feel a little low-rent at first, and it did jar me when it happened, but I liked it as it fitted the text – particularly when used as a backlight. The music is not to my taste and again was part of the film feeling a bit jarring, but it did work because again it fitted that felling of torment and not being able to get peace.
The sonnet sees a man tortured day and night by the distance from the one that he loves. To show this we have a man restless in a park late at night; he is trying to find some peace in his memories of a beautiful day with a beautiful woman, but instead he has both a spotlight and darkness on him. In terms of how the piece is delivered I actually liked it a lot; the music and disruptive spotlight convey a sense of torment which give energy to the words. The lead actor David Blatt looks suitably frantic and tussled, and his delivery of the text suits this. The sound is okay – not great but not too bad considering the nature of the shoot.
The use of light is quite impacting in terms of the spotlight torch being used; it does feel a little low-rent at first, and it did jar me when it happened, but I liked it as it fitted the text – particularly when used as a backlight. The music is not to my taste and again was part of the film feeling a bit jarring, but it did work because again it fitted that felling of torment and not being able to get peace.