Over directed by Jorn Threlfall

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 Over- Directed by Jorn Threlfall- 2015




This short film is set in a suburb in London in a quiet neighbourhood set around a small green. The story is shown in reverse from a police investigation regarding a body found on the streets, it then progresses to show the lead up to those events from the road being cleaned of the crime scene, a car being removed, police evidence bags of the deceased young man in question to  the body being on the street, but going unnoticed from passers by to eventually the body being discovered, then the body inevitably falling from the sky. The film makes the audience try to figure out what has happened throughout the entirety of this 14 minute film




In my opinion, the film is quite confusing to the audience and I think it could have been edited better to try and make it more clear what was going on. I also think it was quite long and dragged out over long takes with nothing really happening, so I think maybe they should have shortened the takes during editing or make more happen.


This film could influence us in our own films as it is structured backwards, so we could adopt this into our own films, but I think if we are to use this we should make it more clear so the audience isn't confused about the storyline.



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