Influential Short Film

Influential short film:

The Desk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_kIyihNd-A

'The Desk' is a short film that follows Peter as he starts a new school. He has yet to make friends and so when he is bored in class he writes on the desk. The next day when he has the same class he finds that someone called Julie has written a message back. This continues for a few days until one day he is in his lesson and the message back appears before his eyes. This shocks him at first but it turns out the desk is some sort of time portal and both of them are in the same room but at different times. He and Julie continue to talk to each other until one day his class gets moved. Things go back to the way they were before and one day, on the way to his new class he drops his folders, a girl comes to help him but no more is said about the encounter. The final scene shows the teacher introducing a new student to the class and he instantly knows she is Julie, she is also the girl who helped him in the corridor. They have finally met.

Although the plot line for my film centers around a different idea there are many similarities between the two. For example:
 

Both show a friendship where the people involved have never 'knowingly' met
 

The friendship in the desk grows as Julie and Peter write messages to each other on the desk.
 

In mine the friendship grows as Chloe and Lauren converse via text. 
 

In both the audience meets the other character at the same time as the main character after having already seen them in another scene
 

In the desk Julie and Peter met in the corridor before they knew each other and we then discover the girl is Julie when she joins his class.
 

In mine Chloe sits with the group who bully Lauren but the audience and Lauren don't discover this until they meet in the park.
 

Both contain very little audible dialogue
 

The desk features conversations almost exclusively written on the desk.
 

Mine shows the conversations through texts with only one scene of dialogue.