Cracked Screen - A Harrowing Story Told Entirely Through Snapchat
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| Trim Lamba |
Cracked Screen is one such example, and the way it chooses to approach the narrative is through Snapchat. Through seven minutes, budding director Trim Lamba guides us through a series of Snaps taken by a young woman in London, the kinds of Snaps the average user sees dozens of times a day, at least at first.
At around the halfway mark, things take a turn for the disturbing, but because you've been guided through such familiar, comfortable territory up to that stage. Tension in a normal film is softened, because you're expecting it, but watch a sinister situation unfold through the lens of Snapchat, and it takes on a completely different shape.
From Friday, Cracked Screen will feature as Vimeo's short film of the week, but until then you'll have to settle for the 30-second trailer. It's certainly not the first film to use social media as a basis, but it's the first to encapsulate a story in Snapchat like this. It won't be the last.
Callum is a film school graduate who is now making a name for himself as a journalist and content writer. His vices include flat whites and 90s hip-hop. Follow him @Songbird_Callum
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Cracked Screen - A Harrowing Story Told Entirely Through Snapchat
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Thursday, February 09, 2017
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