Reflective Analysis

Our video was intended to have similar conventions to other films studied in the Urban Stories genre. The films we studied were ChungKing Express, La Haine, City Of God and Princesses. We chose Chungking Express as our main inspiration especially regarding the films. We focused on a common aspect of Urban Story films and that is the idea that relationships are unsustainable, they cannot begin or end because there is always a form of conflict, something that stops it being established and/or lasting. In our film the conflict was the phone of the male character, it stopped the people from actually being able to carry out the hug that was seen as a vision. You can tell it's a vision as it zooms out from the male characters eye after cutting to where they aren't hugging. In retrospect, we may have used too many effects which may have left it looking a little too edited and perhaps cheap, which although it's common for urban story films to look like they were done on a low budget (as they usually are) they do not have many over the top effects such as the over use of smudge motion.