Technical Analysis of SCT: 3 Short Film

The Smiling Man Short Film -

  The format of this short film is single drama story as it is only broadcasted once meaning no follow up episodes..., it start from beginning to the end.

 The narrative structure used in this short film is that of open narrative (as it has no foreseeable ending as the story has been left wide open) because it leaves audiences in suspense as it ends on a cliffhanger leaving them with questions and craving for more.

 This short film's displays symptoms relating the genre to a thriller. You are able to understand that the short film is a thriller due to a series of camera shots incorperated into the film to create meaning for example: close-ups were used to shows the facial expression and emotions of characters allowing audiences to understang and have a sense of what is going on and how character feel. this short film  does create different feeling for audiences as its mischievous while it creates suspense for them as well. The location and time of the short film: it was based in a desserted neigbour hood street you could say as you can only see two characters the preditor vs prey but on the other hand, you could say its late as it is really dark as street lights were on lighting up the scene.

 

 

As you can see the short film starts with a blur then shows a mid shot of a male character dressed causualy and diegetic sound was introduced (the sound of footsteps expressing that it's quiet at that time of night and that a character is being introduced) and the most obvious is that it tells audiences he is walking at a normal pace. but you also have incidental music playing (termoil and is non diegetic) as the music makes us divert our tension making us wonder what will happen next.

    

A mid shot is used and the male characters facial expression reavels to audiences that he has noticed something strange approaching as his pace slows down until he comes to a halt. the lighting used in the first screen shot was a key light (to high light form and dimension).

on the second screen shotwe are introduced to a long shot and character number two (older male) the smiling man was wearing a yellow/cream suit in which he had black hair and had an awkward stance. the young male noticing that the smiling man was funny/mysterious looking. the smiling man danced down the pavement as i he was intoxicated with alchol. the only sounds you wear able to hear were those of footsteps as the smiling man dances closer to the young male (diegetic sound). This will make audiences have two approuches to it funny or uncomfotableness, this reveloves around the smiling man movements as it not something you see everyday so audiences might feel its funny or uncomfotable.

A mid shot is used again. The young male facial expression denotes that he finds the smiling man movements/actions amusing as he is probably thinking he is drunk.

the young mans face soon turned upside down (frown) showing that he no longer thinks its a joking matter as the smiling man dances closer towards the young male. incidental music was added to strike fear in the eyes of audiences and it made the scene more intense (non diegetic).

 

 the young male crossed the road due to the fact of being freaked out by some stranger, as the young man crossed the road the camera followed him with a pan. by the young male crossing the road it implies that he is afraid therefore this expresses to audiences that something is wrong as the man in the yellow/cream suit stalks him. this begins to build tension within the film which will lead to audiences becoming agitated, fearful of what was laughter turned into something frightening.

a long shot is used to capture the shot of the man in the yellow/cream suits smile and stance at which freaks the young male out as he wasn't expecting it. There has been a rise of tension in the film due to the non diegetic sounds, incidental music and lastly facial expressions of both characters. This portrays that the young male now believes something is up and does not find this funny anymore (making him feel scared and uncomfortable). 

 The characters attitude toward this issue has changed from cool and calm to panic mode  and lastly scared so he begins to walk quicker but then decides to look again to locate the strange man ( this got me shaking as a viewer due to all this tension building up.as the character slowly turns to again locate the strong man (an other the shoulder shot was used to show that part of the scene from his point of view trying to make audience feel as if they were in his shoes) when he locates the man he finds him to be crouched down implying that the man in the yellow/cream suit will do something you could refer to it as a tiger crouching down to hunt and target his prey before he prances.

 this shows a close up of the character facial expression expressing that he is relieved because the smiling man backed off and walked away. as he shouts 'what do you want' to the smililng man which leads him to walking off.

 this signifies that the smiling man is not normal and is childlike and his mental state is being represented as insane due to his actions/movement (makes audiences want to know what the smiling man problem is and why he is so creepy). But unfortinuatley that wasn't it, all of a sudden the creepy smiling man begins to run towards the causing him to panic and sprint away. this close up shows that the causual dressed young man is frightened for his life as he start to sprint away. to show how relevant he is everything in the background is blurred out so that audiences can focus on him and his expression and also the incidental (non diegetic) music helped in stiring the tension of the film as it diverts the audiences tention making them think something bad is going to happen.

i think in the begining the pace of the film was slow then in the middle it got really fast then at the end it got slow again. the editing process was that the had to add incidental music and sound effect and even increasing the volume of footsteps.