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"Naturity" evaluation

Featuring only one character, “Naturity” is the tale of Man, a businessman lost in the wilderness, who finds a new meaning to life due to being exposed to nature. It follows a simple narrative: Man’s quest to return to civilisation, however, features a shocking twist. When Man finally returns to society, he has embraced the natural world so that he no longer feels welcome in the urban environment. The audience is meant to sympathise with Man throughout, because at the start he is ordinary and easy to relate to in the fact that he is a modern urbanite, therefore an active audience would hopefully align with him. The message of the film is meant to speak directly to the audience because the character that they align with learns a lesson that consequently challenges beliefs about the modern world. During the night scene, the audience should be noticing the clear parallels between Man and his Neanderthal ancestors, who whilst considered primitive were infinitely more natural in the way t
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"Naturity" storyboard

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Cinrmatic/Narative ideas

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"Naturity" is in parts social realism, and in others hyperrealism, whilst following a linear rebirth narrative structure.         In "Elephant", the lack of dialogue focusses the audience's attention on the action an means that the mise-en-scene is dragged to the centre stage. I will use this technique by having no dialogue, this will both heighten the effect of my chosen mise-en-scene but adds to the naturalistic social realism in the film: if a man is alone in a forest, he wouldn't talk for the sake of the camera. "Elephant" also heavily featured the Steadicam tracking shot, which I will also use as the man walks through the forest because I felt that the technique was extremely effective in focussing on the characters emotions, it will be easier to show the man's transformation using this technique.         In "La Jetee" there is an overwhelming use of stills, which highlighted the mise-en-scene and emphasised the event bei
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Screenplay

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Naturity

Film project ideas: The film begins with a black screen and the word “Naturity” appears shortly followed by the word “noun” and then subsequently the dictionary definition: “The quality or state of being produced by nature”. Finally, the word “obsolete” will appear and remains as the other words fade out. We then cut to a man walking across a field in the middle of nowhere, he is dialling out, but no one answers his calls. The man is dressed quite respectfully like a businessman and is carrying a briefcase. The man walks through a forest and it becomes clearer to the audience that the man is lost. Time passes and the man remains in the forest, in the dark, he tries making a shelter, using his jacket and other unnecessary clothes and creates a fire from the briefcase and his business’ documents. He sleeps, wakes up and moves on. As he continues to walk through the nature, he feels more natural and at home. This contrast is shown by how alienated he feels as he starts to wal
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High Maintenance (2006)

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Phillip Van's science fiction short film, taking place in what seems to be matriarchy, explores the idea of robotic partners. The opening sequence shows a couple having a romantic candlelit dinner. From an over the shoulder shot we see the husband in his work clothes, they suggest that he is quite uptight and not very relaxed because of their formal nature. As the scene progresses, the wife gets annoyed with the lack of romance coming from his end, gets up and turns him off, revealing the fact that he in fact a robot. After ordering an upgraded model with customised features the earlier scene begins again, this time with her ideal man. As the film is a science fiction short, the audience is expecting a twist and we see a repetition of an earlier shot, showing the new husband as almost entirely identical. suggesting that the situation will play out in the same way, leading to the wife's continued frustration. This theory seems to come true as he refuses a drink for the second
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When the Day Breaks (1999)

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Tilby and Forbis' short film uses animalised characters making it an allegory of everyday urban life. The film starts with a rooster eating toast, after watching him butter it we see a mid-shot of the animal, who is quite clearly meant to represent a man. From the mise-en-scene of the braces, the wrinkles under his eyes and the old-fashioned glasses we can tell that he is meant to represent an old man. The fact that he's been animalised sets the film up to be a children's cartoon however, from the fact that the colour scheme is so worn out and dull, we can conclude that this will be a more serious portrayal of life that isn't as vibrant as a children's cartoon would be. As the film continues, we see a mid-shot of two rodents smoking, this feels uncomfortable to watch because as a society it is deemed wrong for animals to smoke. The fact that these rodents represent humans, forces the audience to explore the idea of smoking being wrong for all animals, including
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