Experimental Film - Flip (Short film)

We were given a task last week to make a 1 - 2 minute film on the subject of 'Time'. There were many approaches that could have been taken when making this film but the way in which I wanted to do it was through time travel. Through looking at feature films that are based about time travel, it became apparent that there was a reoccurring theme throughout and that was that time travel has a lot to do with chance. An example of this is the 1985 film, Back to the Future. In the film there is a particular scene in which Marty is driving the De Lorean at a high speed towards a wall, expecting Doc to connect a power source at the right time, thus throwing him back in time. Following this, I wanted to make a film based on chance and so I made this film, Flip.

The underlying message of the film is to not gamble away what you are already happy with for something better. This implements to all things in life be it relationships, money or even peers. The man flips the coin on heads and is taken to a beautiful place that makes him extremely happy, when he returns he instantly wants to see what would happen if he were to get a tails but unfortunately keeps on flipping heads and eventually loses the coin under the fridge. This was meant to symbolise the gambling element of life and show that if you keep trying to attain better things than the ones you already have, you may eventually end up with nothing at all.