About the Akanksha Kannada Short Film:
Understanding the core content: Story of a couple met to have a marriage proposal.
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If you ask me what are the good things in film means I would surely say dialogues are very good. At first and foremost I’ll place dialogues for appreciation. It looked very realistic and supported the script very effectively. As we all can see, this script is more like a real and possible story for a common middle-class population. In that case, dialogues are very well written and conveyed what it wants to say.
Speaking about cinematography, I really enjoyed the visuals, frames, lighting very much. Moreover, the angles are very common, though it was very pleasant to watch the visual. At the same time, DI was good. In the flashback scene, the color of the film in sepia is different from the major film color. It is a kind of traditional way of showing flashbacks. It looked good. The way of presenting, the backgrounds, placement of artists, everything is not bad.
Music is good and pleasant to hear, but at the same time not enough to satisfy a film lover. It made justice to the script, merged with the tone and texture of the film, but not satisfying while watching the film.
Now, the great hindrance in watching and I completely lost or even we can say the biggest flaw of this film is dubbing and with sound effects. The whole dubbing was made in a studio, that is clearly visible, but the mistake they made is they added reverb effect for the whole film. Imagine a whole film with reverb effect dialogue delivery won’t bring the audience to admire the film to its most. And another area where the sound effect of coffee-sipping spoiled the whole frame. The frame was good with blur and focus. But the actual scene, while the girl is sipping her coffee, the sound effect of sipping so awkward to hear. They could even eliminate the sound and could have made it empty for that frame. It would have conveyed super effectively. By adding that awkward sipping sound, it spoiled the frame itself.
Speaking about the script and the direction, I’m not satisfied. There is humor they tried, while after ordering a cappuccino in an ice cream parlor. The protagonist teased her within himself for ordering coffee in an ice cream parlor. I felt it unnecessary and a bit odd to the scenario. When it comes to romance or emotional scenes, the mentality to enter the scene should be the same. In this case, the joke he made was irritating and felt like spoiling the scenario. The first two cuts of the director and the dialogue delivery could even have been better. The editor should have focused on the first two cuts after they sat in their chairs.
When we speak about artists, the consciousness of the male protagonist towards the camera is better than the female protagonist. Even the child artists are great in their acting. The particular flashback is quite an admiring scene.
This script for 10 mins, an enjoyable script. In spite of some major flaws, we have to appreciate the ideology of this film and the conclusion part. If you ask me, am I satisfied with this film, honestly I would say, I’m not! But if you ask me to recommend this film to someone for the script, I would say yes.
If you ask me to give ratings,
For direction: I would give 7.5/10
For story and screenplay: I would give 8/10
For cinematography: I would give 9/10
For dialogues: I would give 8/10
For artists: I would give 9/10
For DI: I would give 9/10
For music: I would give 8.5/10
For dubbing: I would give 4/10
If you ask me overall, I would give 7/10.
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This Short film review Credit goes to Thozhamaiyan.
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