We watched an interview of him, of which he went on to talk about his style and production techniques. He went on to say how he liked to get to know the cast and crew a few weeks pre-production in having this basic level of trust and familiarisation with the cast and crew, enables the filming to feel just as relaxed as real life as opposed to a controlled ‘set’.
The tense non-diegetic music already engages us into the story.
His storylines tend to be about the working class life, as growing up ina working class background, he wanted to share that side of life with the audience. This interest in everyday life brought him to make his film film, on his camera phone, "The Stairwell". The film is opnly 30 seconds long but it takes an everyday occurance of bumping into someone by accident on a staircase and creates more drama and mystery to it. There is almost an element of comedy within this, as you sort of laugh at how over the top they are being after a bump. The camera phone adds to the grittiness, and actually manages to captures some interesting POV shots and also showcases how good a director he actually is, having had a low form of camera to shoot with, and producing sucha masterful piece.Shane Madows' work is particularly aimed around the life of the 'working' class, as he was brought up from that area himself, which to me says a lot about the business of everyday 'working' people, which is clearly dipicted in this short: people goingin different directions. Alos i think this short is about you never really knowing whats round the corner and the fact that the world seems such a blur: people in their own 'worlds' and always ina hurry. It is such a simple piece, but it conjurs up a lot of thoughts about everyday life.
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