British Film Institution Trip

On the seventh of October I went to go see six short film films at the BFI centre in London. My favourite film out of the six was operator.operator was about a a fire fighter phone operator and how she deals with one of her phone calls. It was my favourite because I liked the minimalistic way it created tension and a sense of urgency. The camera throughout the film was only on the fire-fighter phone operator and never showed us the woman on the other end of the phone the sound of the woman on the phone sounded terrifying which made me want to see her and what her situation was but the camera stayed on the phone operator. It was almost like the audience was positioned to be the phone operator and it was to give a sense of what it was like to be a 999 phone operator.

I was interested in what the director of black sheep had to say. I was interested in why he wanted to create and what he had to do to get on the sides of the two boys in his film. The director of black sheep is Christian Cerami. The film is about how and why young white British boys are attracted to the English defence League (EDL). He wanted to create it because he said he grew up in the area and despised the EDL but he wanted to know why boys are joining the group so he did a film on them. I found it interesting that to get along with the boys in the film he had to agree with the EDL views and go along with what they were saying. I found the boys in the film incredible ignorant for what the EDL stand for. The boys simply joined because they wanted to be in a group. The film gave of a sense that the EDL group was tightly related group and the views of it have passed down from generation to generation.

Elements you could use from some of the shorts are representation for example the strong and independent woman is shown in the short film operator. The short film operator, does it have the conventions of a thriller. yes it does by having a sense of enigma and mystery by not showing the woman, on the phone, face or the activities she is doing.