The Pickpocket

Our first group project has been to make a silent film, based on one of three different stimuli.

They were:

1. Pickpocket

2. Late again

3. The chase

We decided to use the pickpocket stimulus for our short film, but instead of making a film just about the pickpocket taking a item we decided to use the pickpocketing as a part of a story where an phone was replaced by the pickpocket.

The film posed a challenge to us, as we were unable to use dialogue we had to convay the story using just the camera work, lighting and mise-en-sene. The directing roll was taken by Sam Thorne, cinematographer was Daniel Middleton. and Andy Nuvoletta and I took up the two acting rolls in the film.

Editing went smoothly, as we cut the film together we used all of the clips we had recorded to give the film the best chance of looking good and telling a compelling story.