'Wait For Me' by Ross Kauffman

I decided to search through Vimeo, to find other film makers documentaries, maybe shorts or students. I came across a film called 'Wait For Me'. Its a simple film, narrated by a mother. It follows the story of the mothers emotional search for her son who traveled across Europe in the hope to find a 'spiritual connection' to help him carry on living, the son is said to have travelled through India, then disappeared in the Himalayas.

I found this film particularly emotional and almost difficult to watch, not because of its visuals, but mostly because of the sound, and how genuine this woman sounded when describing her son, so I thought it was important to write about. The film uses some 'talking head' but it is mostly voice over, while visually they showed closeups of a letter the son wrote, and footage of the male when he was younger.

This shot is particularly intimate, you feel physically closer to the person, due to how close the camera is. I don't think this is a conventional interview. The camera is zoomed in much closer to the subject, making it more personal, conveying the emotional much more. Almost making you feel or attempting to get the audience to connect with her feelings a lot more than framing an conventional interview would do.

This is a shot I took of when she was reading, I feel it signifies something much more than just reading. Particularly the material that has been chosen for this shot. The hand writing makes it a lot more personal also. Generally the director is really making an effort to get the audience to understand this woman's pain and unconditional love for her missing son.

With all these other shots of the males mother, half the film is made up of footage of the male when he was little and some when he was older. Again this creates a connection, making the video more personal. The audience are able to understand what this woman has lost.  But at the same time you can understand their love, and almost telling you that this make was a nice man.

This is the ending shot, I've noticed it is very conventional for there to be a almost 'summary' at the end of the film, reminding the audience or in some cases keeping them up to date with what has happened since filming has taken place. Along with all these shots and the voice over of the woman, there is music in the background, mainly piano, which is quite sad, this is important to set the tone of the film.