British born photographer, Greg Williams, takes the classic Femme Fatale to debut his first dramatic film. Tell-Tale gets its inspiration from Edgar Allen Poe's The TellTale Heart, this film tells the complicated story of a couple's crime and the guilt which follows afterwards. It uses visually striking shots in a produced by Red One Mysterium X and prototype Epic Cameras and significant lighting techniques to create a world of mystery and adds to an all around impressive mise-en-scene. The film starred notable talent such as Carla Gugino, Adam Arkin and Clifton Collins Jr.
That fact that Williams was able to direct such an entertaining and suspenseful piece in only eight minutes was very admirable. On shot in particular at 1:18, caught my eye immediately. It was an OTS but the person in which the shot uses for a shoulder is a sort of medium close-up of the character's face looking to the gentlemen across from her. This was the portion of the film where the femme fatale suspect was being interrogated and I thought this shot seemed to add to the intensity of the moment. With the help of the incredible talent of Carla Gugino, Williams was able to use the limited amount of time presented by a short film and tell the story of a plan that went wrong that drove the main character to guilt then eventually to insanity. And at the end, the viewers are left wondering what will happen next after their is a possibility that the couple had been caught. The mysterious is never truly solved!
http://www.shortoftheweek.com/2010/09/07/tell-tale/
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