The short film ‘Terminal Bar’ (directed by Stefan Nadelman,2003) goes through the 10 year narrative of the Terminal Bar using well-paced music, past newspaper articles, well paced music and the photography of  bartender Sheldon Nadelman, Stefan’s father, taken between the years 1972 and 1982.

The film begins by setting the scene of the bar through a newspaper article from 1982 which is being read out as relative photography taken by Sheldon is shown. Rather than being static, these images get zoomed in on and panned over. It is followed by images of the bar itself which get the same panning treatment. This helps to set the scene for the many images of faces which follow on for the rest of the movie. These portraits, however, are paired mostly by video and audio of Sheldon describing stories.

The stories are prompted by perhaps a photo album collection of the photographs of the bar-goers. They are all numbered and the stories told by Sheldon are natural and reminiscent, but would have been in no particular order or narrative had the newspaper not been included alongside the stories. The newspaper allowed the director to have a direction among probably hundreds of interesting stories told by his father. This is mirrored at around 15 minutes where the faces of people not yet mentioned are displayed in a visual break where we have a second to absorb their face and think of the possible stories behind them.

To make a similar project, I could perhaps join publishing, imagery and anecdotes together with the help of audio for pacing.