Whats got to be perfect!

When creating the narrative the main inspiration was from Charlie Chaplin. His great success in the industry really motivated me to follow typical conventions of his own whilst looking into other films such as 500 days of summer and films from Woody Allen to create our own silent short film. The choice of no dialgue is a big challenge as it leaves a lot of responsibilty into expressing the narrative through the other technical codes. The music chosen and actors expressions are essential into telling the story, if the music doesnt fit the emotions wont be expressed correctly! This put a lot of pressure on us to make sure our actors follow exactly what we tell them overexaggerating the emotions for our film to be a success. Also choosing to have the whole film in black and white apart from the key prop (balloon) shows the significance of the balloon however this has to be clear to our audience for them to understand the narrative!