The Conversation Piece

 

The Conversation piece is a part of BBC's film network that was written and directed by Joe Turner. It was Produced as part of BBC Film Network's BBC Drama Shorts 2009 commission, in conjunction with Lighthouse Arts & Training and BBC Writers room. It includes successful actors such as  John Henshaw and Celia Imrie.
The films description reads, "One sleepy Sunday morning, Jean notices a chip on a treasured vase. She accuses Maurice, her husband since whenever. He denies it. Employing a variety of tactics, Jean attempts to get to the bottom of the situation.
This unique musical-of-sorts matches every single syllable of dialogue to every single note from jazz cornetist Rex Stewart's 1966 improvised recording 'Conversation Piece'."

We liked this short film as its really different to usual short films where they just follow normal dialogue. The parallel music in this short film takes over the conversation where all we hear is the music.

The way in which the music is presented follows through well as we see one character put on a vinyl, which resembles a diegetic sound. The music goes perfectly with the diaglogue making them sound like their voices are the instruments.
We thought it worked well at the beginning but felt it went on to long and could have been cut short as it dragged out. This is an initial short film that inspires us to pursue a technique similar to using music instead of dialogue.