Teeth - directed by hn Kennedy & Ruairí O'Brien

This short film has a sense of humor and suttle quality, its style of cinematography has a look of beauty and uses tone and colour to grate effect. the feature opens with a extreme long shot introducing the audience to lake , again one of the four areas i pick out in the previous features, the grey dark tone instead of creating a sinister feel creates this wholesome type structure that is reinforced by the friendliness of the characters and the sound bridge of laughter. as the extract moves on non diagetic music is played that connotes play fullness and tranquility, again adding to the suttle friendly nature of the film, the pace is slow and uses dip to black transitions reflecting how time has passed, as the opening moves through extreme long shot to long shot both portraying the characters in shiloetts the director has established a air of mystery linking it to the unknown nature of fishing the main subject within the narrative.
finally the audience are introduced to the main charters two elderly men in old fashioned , grandad like , attire. The is no dialog in this short film and it relays on body language and facial expression to convey emotion and feeling which it dose successfully, the power of this silent dialog is easy to see and the directors use it well to build a whit and wholesome like atmosphere. one of the men sneezes and losses his teeth, which through a series of jump shots reveals the other to find this very humorous and causes him to laugh for a long period of time , his laughter creates a sound bridge between the faster paced shots but also through the dip to black transition showing a change in time, with his laughter linking the two time periods.
non diagetic music is still playing throughout until the lagging man hooks a fish, as the struggle of playing the fish in continuous the director uses a variety of close ups, mid shots and long shots to build pace and signify the struggle of the event, the level of verisimilitude is heightened by the stopping of music and the dominance of diagetic sound parrel to what is on screen. Luck is with this man today first by not loosing his teeth and now catching fish this ideology is symbolised through a shot where the laughing man is in the foreground , dominate, and the sad teeth less man is sitting in the background with his back to camera denoting sadness. however as he looks back non diagetic music is suddenly added to signify a change in hart which is duplicated by the mans facial expression changing simultaneously. the man puts his teeth in the fishes mouth and turns in hope to his friend, a graphic match is used putting the laughing man in the background and the unlucky man now in the foreground showing a change in dominance and enthuses which reveals the man to look ridiculous in the new teeth and with that he troughs them into the lake, leaving the laughing man shot in a close up stunned and helpless, with that the film end suddenly with a straight cut to black leaving the audience grinning.
in conclusion this film is pleasant and friendly the grey tones subvert common conventions instead of creating a cold sinister look, show a friendly humorous atmosphere. the directors use this silent dialog that instantly reveals a friendship between the two character but also convey emotion effectively. the film has a simplistic slow pace and uses no complicated themes or techniques and by doing so create an effective pleasant happy film that is a joy to watch, thoughts i took from this is simple is sometime better and i will now look at my own idea and think of how i can make it effective without over doing the sequence