The
way the black background expands out as title pan shot opening, is used to draw
the audience’s attention to the protagonist.
The shot of the paper as it comes out
of the photocopying machine highlights its importance to the narrative. The
low-angled shot of ‘the man’ through the hole tells us that is open, but the
next medium-long shot plays with the
audience’s mind as the hole from that front-angle does not look like a hole. The
close up shot of the man’s face as he eats the chocolate allows the audience to
see his full expression as the need of greed grows inside of him, in his eyes. Every time the protagonist puts his hand near
the hole there is an eerie, spooky sound which reflects the entering of the
‘abnormal’. Its significance to the
narrative’s metaphor of greed is clear as he opens the manager’s office,
because its sound is emphasised. The last few shots of the short, as the man
climbs into the safe and the hole drops, explains the moral and the metaphor
the story is, that greed is consuming –
the audience are left positively ‘screaming’ at the protagonist to stop
as he doesn’t. The static movement of the camera as the audience are drawn back
from the safe, put us in that position, and it as though someone is taking
pictures of the scene for evidence. I actually really enjoyed watching this one
– and almost wished I could have seen what would happen the next when everyone
one came into work the next day – because it was light-hearted compared to some
of the more serious ones I have analysed.
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