In today lesson, Wednesday 15th September, I had to analyse a short film which I had choose to the class.
The film I choose was Envy directed by Sam Hendi found on The BBC Film Network.
Envy is an urban tale about friendship, love, honesty and trust.
Textual Analysis.
INTRO TITLES: the blurred car lights lets the audience know it will be set in a suburbanised environment possible involving cars.
The blurred lights symbolises hidden identity and strengths the audience mystery in in what the short film will exactly involve.
The 'ENVY' title is strong and a outstand feature on screen. It is visual bigger than the blurred lights to draw the audience attention to the title. The letter 'E' in the title is distorted like it has been cut with a knife. There is suddenly digectic soun which remodels it back into place.
The digectic music adds mood and effect letting the audience know the genre.
2. The lights fade onto a caucasian girl's face. The camera is a CU of her face in profile position. The camera is visually compositioned on her eyes, it bring mystery to the audience as we do not see her surrounding location or where she is going.
3. The camera changes to a MCU. The girl is breaking the 4th wall as she is talking to the camera address the audience. The light is dim and she is in a car within a dark, empty car park. We learn information about the main protagonist Rebecca, as she is addressing her audience.
As Rebecca is talking, there are scene of the characters in question for example: her boyfriend. The mise en scene is highly saturated to show its a flashback sequence.
The camera does a slow zoom in to the main protagonist face then does a sudden zoom and pause in to create dramatic tension.
The silhouette in the door, adds mystery to the story strengthening its darkening atmosphere. It arises questions in the viewers mind's regarding who's house is it and where is she going. The silhouette creates tension.
A new character is introduced to the audience, she is sitting in a car and in the same location as Rebecca. The camera does a slow pan across her face. The camera is handheld. There are jump cuts whilst the character is speaking to the saturated life.
There is then a extreme close up of the new character's lips. This creates mystery as we cannot see the characters lips. The digectic music reaches a crescendo and as the camera pace increases.
A tracking shot of a red car which supposedly Rebecca is driving is shown on screen. Red within the movie reflects passion, danger and blood.
In the next shot, the car window is down and Rebecca face is slightly illuminates by the car light. The mise en scene is dark and gritty adding to the tension of film.
There is a sharp forceful zoom- her facial expression tell her there is a climax coming up.
There is focus pull when Rebecca confronts Sohpie and her boyfriend, this is a shot to show they has been a complex to the scene.
When Rebecca slaps Sohpie, there is a slow motion effect. ECU to show emotions and expressions of characters.
The camera zooms to reflect emotions- handheld camera.
It then cuts to a ECU of Rebbeca in the car location, slowly pans in.
I found this short film interesting and engaging. It explains a story through voiceover and documentary style narrations. I feel the short film idea was simplistic and was shot in a captivate and innovative way using various shots and camera angles to communication to the audience. I like the use of colours within the film to represent various different emotions.
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