I do air is a short BAFTA award winning drama piece directed by Martina Amati. It focuses on a small girl who has a fear of jumping in water from heights and faces humiliation from other swimmers. The film takes you into the little girl's imagination as she holds her breath to experience a "high" inside her own head.
Screengrab taken from I Do Air (2010)
The film makers focus in on certain parts of her to emote certain sensations, such as when we see a close up of her toes touching the wet changing room floor, that sensation of wet socks immediately unfolds in my mind.
The film makers are also very careful and creative with their use of sound. For instance, when the girl is on the diving board contemplating diving off, all but a few sounds a drowned out underneath the drone like score. The sound of someone tapping some pool cleaning equipment crescendos before she makes the decision not to jump. They also drown out a lot of the sounds when the girl holds her breath leaving you with the eerie score and gentle sounds of water dripping.
Amati effectively uses post blurring of the image when the girl is holding her breath in the changing room. This helps remind you of the feeling you get when you experience a lack of oxygen and the dizzying effect that takes hold.
All in all I really enjoyed this short film and admired it's ambition with both sound and vision to effectively take you into the mind of a little girl.
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