Research Tasks - "Mixtape" - Chloe McGlinchey

Mixtape - Luke Snellin

* The genre of this short film is romantic musical. Also containing social realism. Ben spends his time listening to his Dads old 70s vinyl and making mixtapes on an old double deck tape recorder. He makes a tape to try and woo the girl next door, Lily, the girl of his dreams.

* This short film uses the style conventions uniquely because it uses both musical and romance in one film. The film also gives certain aspects of their own music video, as the characters are dressed in fairly vintage clothing. I find the use of using music and interpreting the characters to connect with it is exceptionally inspiring because of how young the children in fact are, it just shows how much of an impact parents music likings can be towards their children.

* The short film format in this piece, has definitely worked the best. The advantages of this is with the shortness of the film is you can include so much or so little in order to make the piece make sense to the audience. The narrative has been structured around the character "Ben" mainly because it's obviously about him having a love for his dad's old 70's vinyl and trying to win the heart of the girl next door "Lily". The music at the end of the film where you see "Ben" and his sister singing along to the song works and intwines within the whole film as it may describe their own insites and feelings.

* The use of sound in the short film is very interesting and works very well with the piece of filming, the music is upbeat and has heart and soul into it. There are both diegetic and non diegetic sounds in the film. The use of the soundtrack, makes the characters seem like they are featuring in that particular bands music video.

* The audience has been positioned to view the film as a third person. As a film is supposed to be viewed, the audience can still interact with this piece, still thinking (if the audience were around in the 1970's) their childhood is coming back to them, with the music bring back memories and flashbacks and whether or not if they were like that with their parents music and how they felt about that era.

Chloe McGlinchey