'Leave Me' - Mae Webb

Leave Me

2009

Director: Dustin Ballard

Found: Vimeo

Summary: A recent widower deals with his grief through his wife's broken camera.

Why I chose this: I really like the way this uses still images and moving images together in a creative way.

Narrative 

This follows Todorov's theory

1. Equilibrium -  a man mourns for his dead wife




2.  Disruption - he is pulled into the camera and is gone from real life camera

3. Confrontation - He realises he is in his wife's pictures and sends his dad a message through pointing to scroll through to a picture where he can see his wife again

 4. Resolution - he is reunited with his wife and sends his dad a message on his hand saying 'Leave me' as he wants to stay in the

1. New equilibrium -  his dad accepts he is gone and frames a picture of him saying leave me to remember him by.

Audience

• This film was found on the website Vimeo, and from looking at the comments (out of 288) the majority of them seem to be male. This surprised me as I would have assumed this film would have appealed more to a female audience due to the fact it has hints of romance in. However, this may be due to the target audience of Vimeo.

• This film has won many awards such as:

*WINNER of the 2009 36-Hour ChristianFilmmakers.org Contest
*Honorable Mention for Drama at the indieProducer Film Fest (10/1/2009)
*WINNER of the Best Short Film category at the 2009 Script2Screen Film Fest in Tulsa, OK! (10/4/2009)
*Official Selection of the Mammoth Film Festival
*WINNER of the Best Narrative Short for the Trail Dance Film Festival (1/24/10)
*Placed on the Paste Magazine Quarterly DVD Lineup for subscribers
*WINNER of the Best Short Film Award by HOSFU at the Gideon Media Arts Conference & Film Festival (6/6/10)