Saturday, 2 October 2010

The News (Future Shorts)


The camera captures the female protagonist from a wide range of angles, makes it look interesting and shows how happy she is. The voiceover makes it seem as though she is conversing directly with the audience (with pauses for the audience’s to ask questions) and a personal relationship is thus established with her. The camera angle as he explains what has happened to her sister is taken from her point-of-view, which allows the audience to empathise with her and experience the changes of emotion she is experiencing.

The couple are madly in love and everything at first seems ideal, her pouring out her heart to him about he has made her so happy and declaring her love for him. The suddenness of the statement, “I killed your sister,” is stated in such a matter-of-fact tone of voice, that at first the audience do not realize like the female protagonist and have to recheck what he says. The way he also continues to talk as though nothing is going on creates repulsion for the audience. The absence of a reply from the woman leaves a hole in the narrative, one of shock, a contrast to the beginning.

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