As Roads CrossYou never know what’s around the corner...

RELEASE DATE- Out nowCERTIFICATE- PGDIRECTORS- Jenny Bridgwater, Laura Rawles & Chloe HubbardCAST- Daniel Homewood, Luly Healey, Harry QuickRUNNING TIME- 5 minutes

Do you remember Pulp’s ‘Common People’? ‘ Sing along with the common people, sing along and it might just get you through, laugh along with the common peo-ple, even though they’re laughing at you and the stupid things that you do… I want to live with the common people...’ At the beginning of this short, that is exactly what you are doing. You are living in a normal world with normal, common people, doing everyday mundane tasks and there is no expectation of anything out of the ordinary occurring. It all starts in a coffee shop where the lead male Jamie, a young businessman played by Dan Homewood, is innocently having a morning coffee

when he accidentally leaves his wallet behind on the table. Losing your wallet is nothing more than an everyday mishap that could happen to anyone. The lead female Sarah, played by Lulu Healey, finishes her shift waitressing and see’s the wallet left on the table, she picks it up and puts it away in her bag. What Sarah and Jamie don’t know at this stage is that the combi-nation of Jamie leaving his wallet and Sarah picking it up it is what will ultimately lead to their downfall. We follow the pair as they travel into town separately and Sarah begins her shopping spree whilst Jamie goes out for lunch with a friend. Whilst both in town we see the two characters cross paths a number of times completely oblivious as to who the other character is which adds to the tension and builds up to the un-expected plot twist at the end. It is rare to find a film which focuses on the sad truth that truly tragic things happen to good people who don’t deserve it, but this unique short film highlights this fact by ending with a disastrous coincidence. Overall the film was a huge

success and is a tribute to all young aspiring film mak-ers. It just goes to show that you don’t need a huge budget or hollywood actors to make a successful short film, you just need dedication and hard work, which is exactly what Green Screen Productions showed when making this short. Both actors had brief experience, Dan acting in a friends pantomime and Lulu acting in a previous student’s short film, but apart from that they were both amateurs. This however didn’t impact on the film in the slightest. Dan’s performance in particular was outstanding; he portrayed real emotion in the ending scenes which I personally didn’t expect from a student film. Unlike most short films, where there doesn’t tend to be much of a plot or storyline, this short followed a dra-matic and intense tale which was clearly hugely planned and thought out which really added to the depth of the short. There were a few dodgy cuts and a few continuity errors throughout the short but overall this didn’t impact on the film as a whole and it truly did stand out as an out-standing student film.

VERDICT- Fast paced and fascinating, with a mesmer-izing twist at the end.