Research into Happiness

A Piece of Happiness - Short Film analysis for Preliminary Task 

'A Piece of Happiness' is centred around short quotes written on post-its, this is what inspired our use of quotes in the dialogue in our short film and also what inspired the title of 'Hope is a Waking Dream' as that is a quote famously said by Aristotle.

This film follows the story of a series of post it notes and how other people find them. Its simplicity and minimalistic design appeal to me as the audience are encouraged to focus only on the subject, there is no context to the quotes, why they are written and for who. 

The title comes up on a post-it note which Bea and I found very aesthetically pleasing and we hope to mirror this presentation of the title in our final short film in some way. We have an idea of a white board outside a shop reading 'Hope is a Waking Dream'. 

The other post it notes were displaced on the wall in the same way as the title, before they are blown away. 

The use of note books also appealed to us and we kept this element aside as we would also like to include this as a feature in our short film. This has potential as we plan on using narration for most of the short film, this narration can be seen as someone writing in a diary. 

The shots in this film were mostly close ups and medium shots of post-it notes, although in our preliminary we are not using shots like this the central theme of how the quotes surrounding happiness then spread both literally and metaphorically (spreading joy) we decide to do this through dialogue.

Overall the short film has a positive message, that joy can be spread easily through just a few words. In the future with our productions we hope to create a similar feeling.