Simon Ellis: Telling Lies

I like this short film even though there is no camera footage. The whole visual of the film is the text and the text shows the audience the truth whereas the dialogue that you can hear is full of lies. The film is a collection of phone calls that a man is having after breaking up with his girlfriend and he speaks to his mother, ex girlfriend, prospective new girlfriend and his friend all of which lie to eachother and the text tells you what they really think. I thought this was a very clever idea and I incorporated it into the idea for my film although the idea has changed since then so we will not be showing lies as such although part of it could still be considered an influence. This influence would be the fact that the protagonist is lieng to himself during the film until he finally figures it out at the end. This short film is fast paced and very funny especially for such a simple idea.