Analysing a short film.

‘Love sick’ short film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFDAvcwDPTA

At the beginning of the short film there is a close up of a female and it looks like she’s in the middle of confrontation with someone.

Even though there is confrontation going on in the scene the background is still very bright and colourful which indicates that it’s still probably going to have a happy ending.

Over this scene there is a voice over and the tone of the voice is very soft which could indicate love.

This is the agent of change as she breaks up with the protagonist.

In the short film it’s mainly dialogue that indicates that she is the ex girlfriend.

The scene has plenty of light surrounding it. Light is portrayed as symbol of happiness and joy.

The mise en scene of his facial expression shows that he’s justbeen given bad news but his facial expression shows that he can easily get over it. It’s kind of a ‘I’m used to it’ look.This represents that he can move on quickly just like the short film itself. The short film uses facial expressions instead of narrative as it’s a quicker alternative.

This is the protagonist We can tell this as he gets most of the screen time.

You can tell that she is the protagonists ex girlfriend as There is shot reverse shot of 2 of them on the screen.

The use of this gesture suggests that love short films can be quite humorous as well as serious.They are light hearted.

The problem is that he is worried that he will end up aloneAnd wants to find someone this follows Todorovs narrative theory.

There's a new girl in this scene which shows new opportunities come along often in love short films.

The leading male looks hopeful againWhich represents that in short films the moods changeFrom bad to good very quickly. The resolution for his

disequilibrium is that he is on a quest to find a girl for him.

Again this is the typical structure for short films according to narrative structure.

This part of the short film shows a male running after a girl he’s just found after he declares that is the girl of his dreams. He has many obstacles to get through to get to her. He manages to get through them all. This represents that in loveShort films people will do anything to get what they want.

His quest it a short action sequence as action has to be condensed in a short film.

There isn’t much dialogue in this scene they communicate through movement and sound and facial expression.

He finally catches the girl of his dreams and then realises it’s not going to work.

In this scene they use body language to tell the story more instead of dialogue for example in this scene you can tell that she wants him to get away from her.

His mood then goes back down to how it was at the beginning but then see’s a new a prize.

This time without any obstacles in his way he chases after the girl and gets her.

This is the resolution because it’s the end of the short film and they managed to resolve the issue.

The short film is left open ended which is typical for short films.