Petals
Directed By: Konrad Maximilian
"The hardest choice in life is so choose your love, But what if you choice of love is the same choice of life and death."
The
harder choice in life is to choose your Love. But what if choose of
Love itch the same time of choice of life and death? - See more at:
http://www.virginmediashorts.co.uk/film/4741/petals#.VCVenFeGjLQ
The
harder choice in life is to choose your Love. But what if choose of
Love itch the same time of choice of life and death? - See more at:
http://www.virginmediashorts.co.uk/film/4741/petals#.VCVenFeGjLQ
The first shot we see in this film is a tracking shot across an old dusty piano. this immediately gives use tells us that we are in some abandoned building.
Everything on we see that the setting is covered in dust and muck these are both Semantic codes Horror/ Thriller films.
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| Piano in the opening shot |
I takes a whole minuet until we see any of the characters. In this time all the shots we see are tracking shots. These shots have a very slow editing pace, it make everything seam calm causing the ending to be a greater shock.
The Non dieject Soundtrack runs throughout the whole film, but gets quieter as we are introduced to the characters. The dialog that we here has an echoy effect, the enphasises the epmtyness of the area they are in. The soundtrack does not fit in with the girl being kill at the typically you would more likly to here horror or thriller music not a song that would more likely fit in to a romance film, This is contrapuntal sound. Although this does have some romance elements the flowers is every simbolic of romance films, this film is a mixutre of both thriller and horror.
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| Petals on the floor. |
Depth of feild is used to bring focuse on to the gun just before he shoots her, this fore the first time pulls the audience off him. It makes it very clear what is about to happen so takes away some aspects of supprise.
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| Camera focuse on the gun. |
A sound bridge is used at the end of this film we do not see him actually shoot her we only hear it. If we wanted to put something like this in our film this is a good way do do it as you had actually have show it you only have to get a soud effect.
Laura - you have discussed some aspects of media language here, and illustrated which is good. However, analysis of these short films does need to be more detailed and longer (see the examples we've used in class as level 4 exemplar). Can you discuss narrative of the film in more depth applying theory - eg Todorov, Barthes, Levi Strauss? Genre needs discussion too - again theory is essential, as well as relevant terms - semantic codes for eg. Audience? I can see that you've done several analyses - try to add material to them all to achieve higher levels.
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