The Smiling man
The scene starts with a walking faint sound effect;
this immediately leaves us in wonder as we do not know where he is walking to
because the camera is a close-up/waist up.
The Smiling Man character has not yet been
indentified, this suggests that he is mysterious; the fact that he is
mysterious creates tension amongst the audience. The fact that it is night time
portrays this character is up to no good. As it is dark this character can be
linked to evil. This type of shot is also known as an over the shoulder shot.
Now if we look
carefully at this image, we can see there is a lowkey sign of lighting, as we
look closer and beyond the smiling man everything else is pitch black, this
suggest that the character is staring into his death as the surroundings beyond
the smiling man are not seeable. This could also tell us that the smiling man
who is from the dark world has come to take this teenager who is in the light,
and drag him back into the darkness which he came from, it’s almost as if the
devil wants to take him away and missuse him.
The director did this scene in a specific way, to make
the audience feel involved. As he is running away from the smiling man, we can
see there is a hand held camera being used to film this area, and to make it
look for realistic the camera also goes side to side as if we were the ones
running at that very moment in time. This is shown through contact of the eye,
what we would see on a everyday basics through our own eyes.
The sound in this short film is rather non-diegetic ,
this is because the character cannot hear the sounds, only us the audience can
hear the sounds. The sound creates meaning and understanding through the way
the sound is composed and presented at different stages of the short film. If
we look towards the end of the film, we see him sprinting to try and break away
from the deluded smiling character, as a sound effect of a heart beat comes on
this is linked to the audience as it keeps them in suspense and creates tension
as they do not know if he escaped from him. He then looks around him slowly
‘’looks left’’ looks right’’ and the smiling man appeared from nowhere,
suddenly a disturbed instrumental comes on, almost like a violent guitar. This
suggests a twisted lifestyle also a mental person that has gone crazy. Also in 
The director made the right choice of costume for the
smiling man. The brown suit with the black hat and black shoes makes him seem
deluded. The movement of this character is rather unusual; this is what makes
him significant as he is not a normal person, the audience would be more
interested in him than the teen age boy, as he is strange and unexplainable.
The location created meaning towards the story. The location was a long street,
very isolated which left the teenager venerable. In-addition his movement was
mostly side to side, also like a snake and snakes are represented to be the
devil! As they wobble side to side.
We can see his facial expression, through the use of
an extreme close up. Even though he is not saying anything but the way his face
is placed, we can infer a lot of meaning through it. He looks terrified and
rather confused as to what is going on. He does not believe what he is seeing
This
is image is 180 degree rule that pits both characters on the screen one on the
right and the other the left as we can see in the screen grab above the camera
has taken a shot from behind the character which is called an over the shoulder
shot it has also not crossed the 180 line and thereby not breaking the 180
degree rule allowing continuity to flow and the editor has aligned shots so
they focus on one character and then back keeping the 180 degree rule.
Pass
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