Short Film – Post It Love

Eman Shah

The short film I have chose to analyse is a film called Post It Love, running approximately 3 minutes long. The film is about two shy office workers who like each other, and are expressing their love through well-mastered and clever post-it note images scattered around the office. Each of them takes turn to better their image until the finale when they both catch each other in the act and give each other a cheeky smile.

Representation The short film has two main characters, a male and female. They are represented as

being two people who are very shy but share a loving interest in each other, and this is shown using various different techniques. In scene 1 they are found photocopying some paper and as you can see they have both gone on different copier machines (scene 1) because they are too shy to talk to each other. When standing in front of the machines the shyness is once again represented because they both peer over the wall-section to glance at the other person simultaneously.

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In scene 2 they both quickly look down when they spot the other person staring at the,. The girl is in a close up shot and you can see a small smile appearing as if to portray her happiness that the male was looking at her too.

When the girl gave a smile in scene 2, this has obviously proven to the girl that the male is indeed interested in her, but the shyness is one again conveyed when she leaves a piece of blue paper with a smiley face made out of post it note in scene 3.

This portrays the shyness because the girl had no confidence to speak to the male, and vice versa. After receiving the post it note smile the male rolls back on his chair and peers down the office to see the girl also looking at him (scene 4), within no time they both withdraw to their section because they once again spot each other looking. This shows nervousness between the pair because they show a lack of verbal communication and interaction.

The male has now realized that the female has shown some affection for him so he wants to immediately show his to her but a step further, scene 5 shows the female lifting up her blinds and finding a bright yellow sun made out of post it notes stuck on her window. This once again portrays the shyness because the male too hasn’t had the courage to speak to the female but instead represents his love and interest in her by returning the idea only bettering it slightly. The girl perceives this as the male being interested in her and sits at her desk and cheekily ponders what to do next. This represents the interest they have in each other because she doesn’t want it to stop here; she wants it to keep going.

The next scene (6) shows the male character sorting out his tie in the toilet; an anonymous character walks into the cubicle behind and shuts the door only to reveal the next step in the loving interest between the two characters. This time round it’s a thought bubble containing a pink heart, (made out of post it notes), placed perfectly where the male is standing. Once again representing the shyness because the female still hasn’t brought up enough courage to speak to the male instead leads him on with another picture. The heart represents her loving interest and cleverly tries to give a sign to the male that he may be thinking the same.

Cleverly the male knows that the female uses the stock room frequently, so expertly in line with the light switch he masters a beautiful flower (scene 7) on the wall and with the over the shoulder shot it shows her holding the flowers. This represents the loving interest because he has responded to the heart with a bunch of flowers.

Walking down the corridor, she stops (scene 9) and the camera zooms in to a close up and suddenly a huge expression of shock is shown, and scene 10 clearly explains why. The male has beaten her to the final post with a huge collage of their faces on the back wall of the office, and this concludes both the loving interest and shyness representation because after all these signs they both show that they like each other but both have trouble speaking to each other. Through images and leading each other on it has shown both characters that they both share a keen interest in each other, which is represented throughout the 3 minutes running time. The film finishes with the female in a close up shot expressing her happiness with a huge smile.