What's in your pockets? Filmmaker James Lees asks Londoners to share what they're carrying in their pockets and what it means to them. James Lees is trying to portray that every object tells a story, revealing more than expected about its owner. From tiny treasures to the downright bizarre, the contents of Pockets provides a quick and charming social insight.
This 3 minute short had the largest impact on me visually as an aspiring cinematographer. The soft focus, high levels of depth of field and the perfected colours had me in slight awe by the time it ended. I saw it as unique in terms of the documentary genre and thus put forward the idea to the group of a similar sort of style in terms of cinematography. The simplicity of the piece and the quality of the shots is why this short doc works so well. I feel that at this point a piece similar to this would be a possibility – revolving around a single object or subject matter which could open up to vox pops etc.
Although I enjoyed the piece I felt that some shots were irrelevant or made little sense in the contribution to the subject matter of pockets and whats in them. I.E. the close up of the old man laughing. Visually such shots are good but can’t help but feel it pushes it away from the documentary genre and leans towards experimental in a sense. Regardless, I see this piece being a huge inspiration at least in terms of cinematography within this documentary assignment.
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