Wednesday, December 16, 2009

A Thousand Words


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9Z8gW8NBks
Title: A Thousand Words
Artist: Ted Chung

Summary: “A Thousand Words” is a five minute short shot in black and white. It tells the story of a young man who sees a young woman on a bus. She gets off the bus and forgets her digital camera. The man sees the camera and takes it home. While looking through the camera’s pictures, he finds several pictures she took of him on the bus. He is then inspired to find her using the pictures in her camera as clues.

Response: I really enjoyed this short. I think it’s a perfect example of the rare videos on YouTube which are really good, both in quality and content. Despite its modern, urban setting, it had a classic, nostalgic feel thanks to the sepia toning. There was background music that helped move the story along, but not too much that it became a distraction. There was no talking in the short, which I think let the music and protagonist express the emotion of the piece that much more. There was also the clever title- A Thousand Words, obviously referring to the pictures taken, but also representing all the words which weren’t spoken between the characters. I think it was a beautiful take on something that happens every day- not losing the camera, but two people who meet and are too shy to express their feelings. The ending was also interesting- how the man packs up the camera with the attempt to forward it in the mail, and that’s the last scene. You don’t see the two reuniting, whether or not the girl received the camera and if so, decided to call him. It leaves it up to our imagination, and leaves us in suspense, just like the protagonist.

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