Electronic Emotion

Mark Page

"Everlong" is my attempt to tackle cinema from a different perspective by using 8-Bit, electronic and atmospheric music as the main driver of emotions, feelings and content in a dialogue empty short film. The final product is quite akin to an 8-Bit computer game, Castlevania and Zelda being prime examples, just in a film format and I aim to invoke the same kind of feelings and emotions as you would experience or relate to playing a Video Game.

Through this I aim to explore how dependent people are on dialogue in explaining what is happening in a film compared to video games, particularly from the 70’s/80’s, where the music drives the mood and explains, in a way, what is happening or going to happen.