Penumbra pictures is up with its latest production The Clock - written and directed by Georgi Georgiev.
From my observations so far I believe that we are already used to the time restraints of filming and we are establishing a custom of making quality footage every week. This, however, does not mean that there is no space for improvement in our short films.
What I liked about The Clock's screenplay was its simplicity for it gave us a chance to concentrate more on building the main character and delve deeply into her emotions. In terms of screenplay there is only one element I would have changed- if the cheating husband was presented as a loving caring lover before his confession to his wife - the emotional response of the viewer would have been different. This is because the audience would start to sympathize with the husband after it is given the information that his wife is cheating on him and thus the effect of the dramatic twist would have been stronger.
With regards to directing I loved the director's choices of profile and frontal shots which are shot with a handheld camera. In my view the choice of close ups boosted the visual expressiveness of our film and the camera shake is in perfect union with the narrative for it is a symbol of the main character's emotional instability and provokes the audience to enter even deeper into her troubled world.
What I think I would have changed if I was a director is light and color saturation. The way I envision the script is a combination of a low saturated grays, black and blues contrasted by a low key lighting, this in my opinion, would have been in a better relation to the overall cheerless tone of The Clock.
Being responsible for sound I also composed the minute score of The Clock with a digital music making software (which unfortunately is rather limited ), I also recorded two more tracks but we did not find them suitable in the editing process. My aim was to compose something simplistic with hollow minor tones that would accentuate on the leading character's sadness and internal chaos.
All in all I am very happy with the achieved,the wonderful directorial decisions and good acting and I hope our work together is going to get even better in the future.
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