An establishing shot is used
to open the short film where we see an extreme long shot
of two people on an empty beach, a two shot is
used in the following scene to show both characters standing beside each other
watching the male character flying a kite.
Both characters are standing silent and not
interacting at all which would suggest they are not sure on what to say to each
other or if they even know each other at all. These two shots help the audience
build a picture as stereotypically disabled people tend to have poor social
skills and feel nervous as well as are more likely to be isolated. This is
further then implemented to the audience when a medium
close up is used to show the female characters body language awkwardly playing with her hands
near her face.
The pair are distant from each other not physically as they
are besides each other but in their mind-sets. Focus pulling shows the audience
the two characters facial expressions which
show them appearing to be in a world of their own, this conveys a sense of
loneliness and being isolated. This is stereotypically a feature of a disabled
person keeping themselves to themselves. The isolation of the scene is
reinforced by the empty beach where they are
standing with a few birds flying above them and by the soft diegetic ambient sound of waves and birds.
A Binary opposition is then shown via the setting of the beach being dark and gloomy to in the following scene the setting of
the beach being sunny with blue skies. The costumes between the male character and the new
female character also shows a binary opposition as the male is wearing darker
items of clothing whereas the female is wearing a pop of colour.
The first female character walks down the beach and stops in
her track which finishes in a medium close up where we see her facial expressions looking angry at the fact the
male character and new female character are together. She looks very
uncomfortable and doesn’t look sure on what to do. Once the three characters are into the shot
the first female characters dialogue asks
who the female is and talks over her head being rude about her, this again
conveys the females disability as she doesn’t have good social skills knowing
when to talk about someone and when to not. Her body
language throughout the scene is uncomfortable pulling at her sleeves
and shuffling which is reinforced by her facial
expressions where she is looking at the ground avoiding eye contact with
the female character.
Once on the ferry cuts are used to transition between the man
and other passengers starting showing the differences in their behaviour with ambient diegetic sounds of people talking and the
environment making natural noises opens the scene but this then changes to non-diegetic sounds of echoes and whispery
dialogue fills the space, this conveys the man’s disability his facial expressions in a close
up show a sense of pain him closing his eyes and trying to breathe
through the sounds match on actions are used to show him moving his
head in different directions where the camera picks up expressions.
At the end the initial characters are again seen on the
beach via a two shot fixing the kite together giving
a sense to the audience on this is how this is meant to be with the two
characters silently being together, the
setting has gone back to a foggy dark lighting.
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