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About a girl short film analysis

The film starts with a low angle, low key lighting shot where it shows the girl singing and dancing on a hill. I think the meaning of this shot is to pull you in and make you look closely at what is happening which is a good way of grabbing your attention. The low angled shot also works as an establishing shot as it shows where she is and what the place looks like.

Most of the film is shot on a canal using jump cuts between a close up and a medium shot, this is good because even though your just looking at the same thing from a different angle it doesn’t get boring where as just staying with one shot all the time it would.

There is a two shot in the film when she is talking to her dad in the cafe, the two shot shows both people in the scene and it also shows you what they’re doing. When the girl is talking about how her mum won’t buy her anything because she has no money it goes to an over the shoulder shot where you can see the mum scratching a scratch card, this shot proves her point about never having any money.

At the end of the film it shows a close up of the girl dropping the bag in the canal then it goes to a low angled shot under water. The film ends with an aerial shot showing the girl walking off. All the shot in this scene tries to set a mood and they show the emotion on the girls face.

All the way through the film there is dialogue and ambient sound so we can hear the girl and it also tell us about the surroundings.

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Bouncer short film analysis

The film starts with a close up which jump cuts to an extreme close up, which is there so you can see what the bouncer looks like and the emotion on his face. There is ambient sound and dialogue in the start which is in the film all the way through. The sound and dialogue is there so you can get an understanding of the surroundings and so you know the bouncer is saying.

There is a two shot and a medium shot with low key lighting that shows the bouncer splitting up a fight, this shows the fight and what’s going on around it.

They then use close ups and freeze frames when a guy pulls a knife out, this shows the fear of the bouncer and gives you time to think about what is happening.

Toward the end of the film there is a lot of close up eye-line shots when the bouncer is in the gym this shows the power in his eyes and the emotion in his face.

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Sacrifice film analysis

The film starts with jump cuts between a close up and a medium shot with high key lighting which shows two men walking down a road. The two shots show what the men look like and shows the surroundings. Then it goes to a low angled shot which shows a group of men talking, the low angle is good because it shows you everything that is going on and it makes it look more detailed.

Later on in the film it shows one of the men on the floor after being stabbed. They use a high angled shot that shows the man’s face, this is good because it shows the emotion and fear on the man’s face.

Then another man appears with a weapon and tries to hit the security man it then shows an over the shoulder shot of the two men talking this is good as you can see what the mean are talking about and it means you can see if there is any sudden moves.

There is dialogue, ambient sound and incidental music all the way through the film. The dialogue helps you understand what is going on and the music tells you how to feel.

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