"About A Girl"

Time: 9:50 mins
Director: Brian Percival
Cinematographer: Geoff Boyle
Writer: Julie Rutherford
Budget: £33,000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL2z8Qzn1dc&feature=related

This piece is a social realism documentry/drama about a young 13 year old girl, quite 'chav'-like in appearance, who throughout talks about what she wants to do with her future etc. She talks to the camera as she walks along what seems to be a river along the side of an industrial/estate area. Throughout the shots there are a lot of bricks, walls and almost this feel of her being trapped in this society, and as we later find out, trapped by her pregnancy. Her appearance suggests that she is possibly older than she may actually be: her hoops earings and deep, husky voice compliment her thoughful and often ineligent output, yet the non-revealing clothes, hair undone and no make-up still suggests her innocence. It relates back to her being pregnant: that transition between childhood and adulthood.

• Messages and morals are prominant throughout short films, they tend to have either a very strong political/socail contreversial even, message being put across to the audeince. The shock factor has always been a big part of creating short films, going above and beyond mainstream filmakers, exploring a wider scale and thinking outside of the 'box'.