Steel homes - Eva Weber

After watching Steel homes by Eva Weber today i have managed to make quite a few observations.
the film starts with an image of a metallic shutter being opened into a building while a metallic rubbling can be heard. we then see a series of metal doors with padlocks keeping them shut. over these images as well as metallic clanging sounds, voice overs can be heard, of people talking about "their rooms" and "their doors and padlocks" without actually telling the audience what we are actually seeing in the images. instantly we are given the impression of a prison which would then tie in to the title of "steel" homes e.g. prison cells. We then see people with metal carts walking around the building and opening rooms and taking out objects from the rooms. we then realize that this is a storage facility. it is noticeable that the people in the images have their faces hidden from the camera, along with the blank metallic walls and the numbers on the wall cause a lack of identity in the people that are in shot. the people seem upset, and the mood of these people is reflected in the surroundings of the shot. The mood of the voice overs also seems quite unhappy too. it's as though the confined spaces of the storage units are a reflection of the peoples lives, small and confined, everything packed into one small space, which i believe was the element to the film itself. The sounds in the film work very successfully, there is a subtle hint of quiet melancholy music heard throughout however the metallic clanking is more overwhelming making the film and the lives of the people seem very mechanical. the use of cataphoric referencing in the film is a very effective technique, as an audience we automatically draw assumptions about the people in the voice overs which turn out to be inaccurate,