Well this is a POV project film, which in the POV Project, the director had to write a short film or recreate a scene from a movie. He choose to write his own short film. And the object of the POV, is who's story is it about and who is telling it. The scripting does not make any sense at all. I heard that the actors made him take their names out of the credits, which is kind of funny.
I do mostly Director of Photography in school, but I also do a lot of casting directing for fellow students, so I'm very annal about the overall look of the film and casting. The directing was the worst that I seen in a while, cause the director will make the acting good or bad. And this student has a master's in acting, so he should have a idea about motivation and working with accents. As far as camera work, framing with lead space could be better. A lot was non motivated. There's a pan correction of her medium close up that should of been corrected before, not during the take. only one shot is white balanced. Everything else is either too blue or too yellow, which shows there's no motivation for the lighting, and no one heard of color collective gels. it's also very flat lighting, and never place lights on the ground, which in ending shot the light was on the ground pointing up at her when she walks down stairs. her shirt blends into the non white balanced walls. A really big no no in film school is you never shoot blank white walls. Because it's not pleasing to the eye and just makes it look like a student film. There's a plant in the two shot that makes it look like theirs leaves coming out of her eye. and the milk jug blocks her boob when she references it. No ambiance of room tone for audio was used.
You got to bare in mind this is a NYFA student in the 2 year program that also has a master's in acting, so his work should be pretty good.
