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DramaComedyDocumentaryAnimationExperimentalMusic
A Picture Can Say A 1000 Words
Tom Mansfield
average rating from 22 members 
       
experimental | 2005 | South West | 2 min
Published 03 Apr 06
Words can't describe it.
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synopsis
Trying to describe how someone looks at you can be a difficult task, especially if their unique aura makes your heart race. Attempting to describe the indescribable is a challenge. Could you paint that picture with a thousand words? After all, a picture can say a thousand words.
short fact
The sound track is made with 95 samples from the typewriter.
crew
  • director Tom Mansfield
  • writer Tom Mansfield
  • producer Tom Mansfield
  • editor Tom Mansfield
  • director of photography Tom Mansfield
  • sound Dave Corney & Tom Mansfield
  • music Dave Corney
  • typewriter artist Keira Lyn Rathbone
  • motion graphics/ post production Alex Dilworth
  • camera assistant Woody James
  • cast
    • Alex Mackay
    festivals, awards and screenings include:
  • Short-listed at Depict! Brief Encounters, UK 2005
  • Eat Our Shorts National Student Film festival 2006
  • format
    digital
    © 2005 Tom Mansfield

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    comment by vince  Brown
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    I like the tight shots on the typewriter. Simple and effective. Well done.

    comment by kiran  ranpise
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    posted Oct 16, 2006

    its okay...

    comment by Matthew  Taylor
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    posted Sep 15, 2006

    very well done.

    Brash combinations of score, sound and visual. Great concept and a very tight short film. The photograhpy is stylized but sharp and creative.

    Having grown up with a journalist father who used an Underwood typewriter--similiar to this one--I liked it right away.

    This seems to be a great metaphor for the craft of a screenwriter

    comment by Gareth  Spark
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    posted Aug 28, 2006

    Oh my god! Have you guys ever been anything other than students? Wow! You know: there is a world out there, damn it!

    comment by Katryna  Knight
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    posted Aug 23, 2006

    This is very inspiring and I think everyone involved should be extremely proud of themselves. I have not seen such an original and catchy short film like this for a long time.

    It is very similar to that Honda advert where the mechanial parts move to music to set up the car movement at the end. I could see this film becoming a great commercial advert where the picture is replaced with what it is advertising such as a car.

    Exellcent work!

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