1. The Most Beautiful Thing
By Nell and Lucy

2. Guess what the film is about
The short film 'The Most Beautiful Thing' could be based on many different things, but what do you think it's about?
Discuss with the person next to you and come up with two ideas of what you think the film could be about.

3. Storyline
The film involves a teenager who thinks that a girl he likes a school is ignoring his attempts to talk to her, however then finds out that she is deaf. They then start communicating by using their special notebook and throughout the short film become closer and closer. He then tries to make her talk, however she says no and you can tell this makes him feel guilty. The next day at school he sees the girl on a bench with another boy, and then sees them together the next day and gets the complete wrong idea. She then says this all to him and how the other boy forced the kiss on her. He then asks her to prom using sign language, bringing them even closer together than before.

4. Film
'The Most Beautiful Thing' was written, directed and edited by Cameron Covell. It stars starring Nick Lopez and Analisa Gutierrez, Also with Cameron Herbst, Madison Kirkpatrick, and Tim Wagner.
This short film was also the winner of the LACHSA Moon Dance Best Film Award, and Best Actor Award.

5. Mise-en-scene
Throughout the short film, the film maker uses mise-en-scene to really show the attitudes of the character and the feeling of the film in general. The use of camera work makes it seem as though it’s almost a documentary, not a story. This is because when the film starts it shows a hand held shot of the boy walking through his school with music playing in the background. The sound is the film is basically only soft music, there is some dialogue however it is very limited so the director clearly wanted to use the sound of the music and tone of it to express the ideas behind the film. Also, because the girl is also deaf, having no dialogue in some ways could express how she feels, as though she has to figure everyone out through their expressions and body language. The costume used throughout shows that they are teenagers who are at an American high school, due to their not being uniform and the lay out of the school you can also tell this.

6. Following conventions
'The most beautiful thing' follows the typical conventions of a short film as it's 10minutes long, it has very few characters to make sure that the audience don’t have to keep up with too many relationships in a short period of time. The main characters are the boy who is looking for a prom date and the deaf girl he starts to like. There is a story line to follow to keep the audience interested as we want to find out if they stay together in the end. There is a main place where the majority of the action takes place which is the bench where the main couple first meet. There is a twist involved as he believes the girl is ignoring him however she is in fact, deaf. Finally this can be related to every day life as anyone asking anyone to prom has the fear of being rejected or going alone!

7. Never judge a book by its cover
Different themes
There are many different films involved throughout the film, what do you think the main ones are from the ones listed?
Love
loneliness
Never judge a book by its cover
Strength