Steel Homes (Eva Webber, 2008) 

Steel homes is a short documentary which focuses on self storage units, this short documentary looks into a variety of different opinions surrounding the self storage units, such as; past memories, dreams and possessions of sentimental value. In this short documentary it is narrated by people who have a self storage unit, they speak about their feelings on the self storage unit and what it means to them.

 During which one person describes it as a "nameless corridor" i feel that this is something that the director wants to make the audience feel to begin with, i believe this because in the start of the short documentary it is very mysterious. The director uses a lot of long shots to show this and to also give the idea that the self storage units had emptiness about them. In the beginning i also believe it is hard to understand what it is going on, i think that this works well as the mystery of it all has the audience wanting more. Although i do think that this is a very insightful piece i also do think that it drags out for longer than necessary, repeating itself quite a lot. Overall i do believe that this short documentary holds a lot of merit as it looks into something that from the outside could appear very boring but when you take a closer look can find something very interesting. The one change i would definitely consider is to change the length of it or possibly to find something different and more interesting within the storage units so that it had a reason to go on this long.