Three Short Films for Inspiration
First Film: Double Tap by Eros Vlahos The first short film I chose to watch follows a social-media obsessed teenage girl who chooses to ignore chain mail she stumbles upon on Instagram. The post suggests that if it is ignored, the girl will be visited by a "dickless man" later on. Vlahos made many inspiring choices when directing this film. Firstly, I really enjoyed the way he depicted the mindless social media scrolling we are all far too familiar with. He showed the teen girl mindlessly scrolling through social media and cut to random parts of her face. The cuts were fast and made me feel equally as mindless as the character on screen. He also used a split-screen to show what was occurring on the girl's phone. Not only was she scrolling through Instagram, but she was receiving texts and other notifications as well. Another inspiring thing he did was set the time period. You could tell the story takes place in the modern ...