Short Film Deconstruction, Film Name: (One Hundredth of a Second)

Link for the film: (film name: One Hundredth of a Second)

Narrative

   The basic idea of film is about war, and people who are trying to make their life on it. In this case it is reporter. The film is about a woman reporter who is in war place taking photos for her album. Woman is looking at people in war place and taking the photos and then she sees a running girl and decides to follow her. She goes towards her and hides behind the fence to take a photo of her. Then she sees that the girl men a soldier and that soldier point a gun at the girl, and asks to give what ever she has in her hand. Reporter at that time just watches the situation and takes photos. The arguments between man and the girl is getting more aggressive, soldier tries to get the bag from girls hands, at that point we see that girl looks at the reporter and reporter is shocked for a second, but then still carries on taking photos. The next shot we see that reporter prepares for the presentation of her photo of the girl, we see reporter/woman putting some make up and clothes on. We see reporter’s thoughts while she is dressing. After we see the point when reporter seats in the audience and waiting for her name to spoken out so she can get the price for the photo of the year she took. When a woman on stages tells reporter to come out and get the prize the photo of a dead girl appears on presentation board and reporter runs out from the hall crying. That is the moment when she understood what she has done.

   The premise of a narrative is that woman/reporter was some kind of spectator of some one else’s death. That she did not help the little girl, even though she could and that little girl saw her taking the photo. The reporter is soulless person. That is what narrative tries to bring us.

   Active question in the film is why reporter did not help that girl. As we watch this film and see that reporter is not helping, even though while she was taking photos she stopped for a moment looked at the girl they looked at each other, and then woman carried on to take pictures. In te end girl was dead.

   Defining moment in this film is quite a difficult question because there is actually two of them. First one is when reporter and girl are looking at each other, we understand then that woman is not going to help as she is working with her camera, but we do not know what happened to girl next. After that in the end of the film we have another defining moment as we see what happened to the girl, eventually she got killed and reporter took a picture of the dead girl, we can see that reporter understood what she has done and run away from the theatre where she should have given a prise for this photo. So in this case we have a second defining moment as we find out what happened to the girl and that reporter understands what she has done now.

   Audience should follow the story and be involved in the story. As audience does not know what happened to the girl until the end, which keeps audience being interested and being involved in the narrative until the end. Audience also gout taught how people should not behave in situations like that.

Character/Elements

   The protagonist in the whole scene is a small girl, because first that she did not do anything wrong and second that she was killed by soldier. The antagonists are soldier and reporter. We understand that this soldier is antagonist from the beginning by stereotype, which is a gun AK-47 which is usually used in films to represent terrorists. Reporter is antagonist as well because she did not help little girl, also reporter understood that it would be better to help the girl when they looked at each other, which makes her very “strong” antagonist in this scene. The audience in the hall where prize should be given could also be antagonists because they choose this photo to be a winner and they did not care about that small girl being dead at war.

   Soldier opposes small girl by shooting her. Reporter opposes girl by not helping her, by letting her die. And the audience in the hall are opposing this girl by choosing this video. For me it seems that people are soul less and that they do not care about other innocent people dying at war.

   The result on the protagonist is that she is going to be killed and being used as an object to make something on.

   The character trait of reporter is quite brave woman. We can see it when a man next to her calls her but she is not going away, but actually carries on taking photos and goes into the action (01:37m) is when she goes off and (01:33m) when man calls her.

   The story is about brave woman which was selfish to people in war basically. So the way she was treated and opposed to a small girl related to narrative. Also the result on the small girl is quite obvious, and matches the narrative.

Point of view

   There is a third party point of view mostly, of course there are some points of view of reporter to compare what she and we seeing. We also have a point of view of camera, i.e. we have an effect as we would take those photos.

    The reason to have third party point of view is to show the whole story from the side and give a chance to see emotions of people. Reason to have camera point of view shots is to bring us feeling that we are there, and also give us possible thoughts of reporter.

   We are given that ‘she’ is a hard working ambitious journalist who is working in very dangerous places, like the one we have seen in the film. We also know that she is not scared of war as every one was running in the scene except her. We are also given a background/persona of reporter that she has her career first. As we see that she did not help the girl, bit carried on with taking photos.

 

Style/tone

   The narrative structure in this film could relate to the Todorov theory in some way. As in the beginning there is equilibrium; she is a reporter and doing a good thing (i.e. tells people what is going wrong in the world). The disruption in this case could be a small girl which she saw running towards her. Recognition that disorder has occurred’ could be that girl faced a soldier, who started to point gun at her. Instead of attempt of reappearing the and saving the girl; reporter stayed there and carried on taking photos because she was scared or because she wanted to take some more photos first, but girl dies before reporter saves her (we do not see how girl dies). The new equilibrium: girl dies and reporter can not forgive it to her self (runs out of place where she had to get her prize for the photo).

   Film has some action of war so obviously style of it is war. There are a bit of shooting scene in the film and the whole situation is based around two people in it. One is trying to escape/save her self and the other person tries to take photos of it.

   Editing in the film is quite fast especially in the moments when there is shooting actions and everyone is running. This camera style is matching the film style. As action is one of the major parts in the war. There were some camera shots  that were framed with out of focus in front of the camera to give an impression that someone in war is hiding and watching the whole scene happening. This way of filming creates the style of film because in real people would hide from gun shots, and in the scene we see that from our point of view we are hiding and looking what is happening. This ‘framing’ shot is not appearing all the time as if it would we would not be able to concentrate on the film, instead of ‘framing’ through out the action scene we have ‘hand-held’ and ‘steady cam’ as it represents rushing scenes the most, it terms of feelings/emotions it gives and we can concentrate on the picture of film more.

   The acting of actors is quite the same except the reporter, as she was the one who was not scared to run to film/take photo of girl. The soldier looked scared even though he had a gun, as maybe he was running away from something, that girl also looked scared and she was also was running away from somewhere, all people on the streets were running away from bullets and dangerous places because they were scared. Even friend/work mate was running away buy not the reporter. This all could give us feeling that she ‘is brave and ambitious woman who cares about her career, and it is actually true by the narrative.

   The only on screen graphic in this scene is when reporter takes photos of the action happening. We can see how she takes shot, it is shown by making screen flashing and through the framing of the shots. It is all edited together very fast so it seems to us that we are in the camera’s point of view (starts at 01:20m).

 

Camera

   There are many different shots in the film which represent some particular mood in scenes. First shot I would like to mention is: shot from behind, as I mentioned above it is probably made that way to give the audience feeling that woman was followed by someone else. In the same part we have tracking shots which are placed there to cut in time, which is actually more sort of editing which lets us know that she is preparing and it takes a long time. So we might think that she is preparing for something very important. In this case she is preparing for prize winning which could be very important life event. We also have some close ups on woman’s/reporter’s face to see her eyes, which could make audience focus on her eyes and make think that she is scared of something. After the calm section in woman’s apartment we move to the shooting action. The shot which is used in action section is: hand-held which is more sort of steadicam, the reason to place there this shot is to represent that it is real and that some one is actually filming it himself, rather it was filmed on purpose by professionals, gives to audience a real impression. There is a medium shot on to the soldier later on, it is made in the scene to introduce the soldier to the audience, if it would be extreme long shot or long shot we would net see him as one on the main characters and we would not see his face as well. As we want to see the emotions of main characters to understand what purposes they follow in the film and what their mood is. After we had medium shot on the soldier we then have a medium shot in the small girl which is running towards the camera, this shot is also introduces another character in the scene, so now we understand who is going to act in this scene, but we do not know yet what are they going to do. We can only guess what is going to happen by stereotypes: soldier has AK-47 so we think of him as a villain, small girl who is scared and has a small bag which is not a weapon, but probably toys or food. Finally we have reporter who seems to be a hero who will help the princess (small girl). In the end we have very different ending and the reason is that its short film which rarely gives information rather than telling a tale. All those shots are repeating for a while. We see how girl meets villain/soldiers we have two-shot here to show that they have met each other, and how hero comes closer. Then shoots are smoothly moving to the next part of the film when she is in concert hall for a prize which is also more part of editing, but this time we have a medium long shot, we have this shot in this place to first of all show where is she and that she is quite small and that she is merged in crowd. There are no aerial shots, lo-angle or high-angle shots because the whole scene meant to represent from the side and author might want the audience to see all heroes equal and decide them selves who is right and who is wrong. In the end we see medium shot on the reporter/woman crying after she realised what happened and what she has done. We se this shot to give this film an end because without this shot we would not know that this woman feels in the end, it would not explain people life. With this ending people might understand that in the end they will feel guilty and sad if we do similar thing to this, even though we do not realise it in the beginning.

   As I mentioned above camera treats all characters the same, as we do not have any high-angle, low-angle or aerial shots. The whole film was supposed to represent every character from the side and leave a decision of the whole situation up to us.

 

Sound/music

   There are both types of sounds diegetic and non-diegetic. There are some people talking, something shooting, and screaming. Also there is music in the end and in the middle.

   The non diegetic sound is used in this scene only in most in most important parts. The one is around time when girl saw/met the soldier after that music is not stopping, but just goes lower. The second time music appears in the end when we have the conclusion of the film.

   The non-diegetic sound only appears in moments of action in the war place, when we see reporter back to her house there is no non-diegetic sound but when wee see the end of the story i.e. the photo of a dead girl we have some kind of relaxing Middle East music, which represents calmness and in this case death, an end of someone’s life and the whole scene either.

   Sound is related to the film as some moments in the film need concentration, those moments are: when we see that reporter understood what she has done and the moment when we see that reporter and girl looked at each other and reporter carried on taking photos.

 

Edit

   There is over the shoulder shot in the beginning of the film. It is made there to intrigue audience, it looks like someone is watching her. Audience could think that ‘soul of dead’ is watching her going to go somewhere. We see her from the back all the time in the beginning, we also have a couple of close ups and tracking shots from different sides. This made to cut away time so we do not actually see the whole process of putting make up, we see it step by step, every time we see her, she does different steps  of preparation. The other editing happens (01:06m) when we move to woman’s hands and then we jump to the war action. This could be a representation of tiny woman’s hands with a ring on it in different place made a crime as we see her holding camera which she was used. This could represent to the audience that she has done something wrong, and we can probably see what she is remembering as we have jump to the war action after close up on her eyes, where she looks ‘lost’.

Short Film Deconstruction, Film Name: (Black Hole)

Link for the film: (film name: Black Hole)

Narrative

   Basic concept of the film is to show what greediness can do to ordinary people, like the one we have seen in the office. Film starts from the scene when there is a man in the office trying to print something, and this printer is not working for some reason. Then man/main hero kicks printer and it prints him a big black dot on A3 sheet of paper. Main hero looks at it and puts it on the side. Main hero finds out about magic use of this sheet with the black dot after he places an empty cup on it. After he realises what things could be done with this thing he starts to do things which he would not usually think about.

   The premise of the film is to carry out to people that we are easily tempted. Quite a lot of people which would watch this film might work in office or in the similar organisation, and could be on his place, despite the fact that there is magic item in the film. In fact instead of a magic object in real fife there could be something instead and what makes sense.

   Active question in the narrative might be: why people would need to steel something if they will be caught anyway. Even by something else like in the film. We could not say straight that there is a question, in my opinion it more sort of teaching because this film shows what could happen to someone if he/she steels, or in other words if people give up to their temptation.

   The defining moment in the film is when main hero has done his first crime in the film, and thinking of something else he would steel, while he is greedily eating a chocolate bar-which he stole by using a magic item. From this point we could say that persona of a main hero is changed, he looks cruel now and we can see it in his eyes.

   Audience should be involved in the process of interest through out the film. Whet main hero steals chocolate and money audience should think,-wow I would take more or I would keep it for tomorrow, or something like I would rather rub bank instead. In the end all illusions disappear in people as they see that this guy eventually got caught. This would give audience will not to steal even if they have a chance to do that. Also audience might be asked being worried for main character.

 

Character/Elements

   There is no protagonist in the film because there is only one character and there is no one who could be his opposite. On the other hand we might say that he is a protagonist in the beginning and when he invents for him self a secret weapon he becomes antagonist, it happens in the scene within the defining moment, when he looks at the “door”

   Even though there are no antagonists and protagonists we could still relate those characteristics to non animated bits of the film. In the first bit in the scene antagonist would be a black dot because it incite main hero to steel, even though it does not say anything it “just lies down there”, but we know that without black dot main hero would not steel.

   In the end main hero who used to be a protagonist is locking him self in the money locker which it partly his fault and mainly of the black dot. The protagonist will be sent to prison that is the result of the antagonist on the protagonist.

   Main character is greedy and that is probably the main trait of him. When main character starts to steal money from the locker he takes just small part of money first thinks about it or being shocked. Then goes for more until he can not reach for money, and then he climbs inside and the print falls off. His characteristic was greediness, and in this scene he was punished for it as he would stop stealing by taking just small part of it but he did not.

   As this film takes more sort of teaching position this trait of the main hero is fully related to the theme and narrative of the story. By the example of the main hero narrative explains why this happened to that person, who seems to be a protagonist in the beginning. People see straight away that greediness is bad and the fact that greedy people could be punished in the end.

 

Point of view

   Point of view in this film is entirely from the audience. As we watch this scene we almost see main hero from the side. All emotions and situation of the scene we could see from the side and be taught.

   Point of view shifts to the main hero just once. The place where it shifts is defining moment; we have the point of view shot to make us see what main hero sees. It made like that on purpose so audience can see what he sees when he looks at the door to the room with money locker. Audience will know that there is something more important than chocolate.

   We have enough information about main hero due to stereotypes such as: he is an office worker (white shirt standard tie, staying late probably no personal life) this kind of person will dream about big amount of money, but will never get them by working in the office and he understands it. the other source which gives us information is that the whole scene filmed with some kind of blue tint, it gives impression of boring night in the office, also printer does not work and we can see that this fact annoys main hero the most at the moment, we can see that he is moaning and that he is tired.

 

Style/tone

   The narrative in this film is to explain the fact what could happen to people who was yield to temptation by something/someone especially when people are mentally weak and can not control themselves.

   The visual style in this video is some king of teaching example. It moralizes us what we should not do. You can relate this video to folk tales.

   We kind of see main hero from the side and this will give us a teaching moment, we see how we should not behave in our life. So camera style in this case affects created style in the positive way.

   The acting of the actor/main hero made it typical, as scene means that quite a lot of people would behave like that if such tool was founded. So his acting related to the style of narrative.

 

Camera

   There is a small crane shot which is then becomes medium close up on the main hero. By making the crane shot we have a background of the place and we understand straight away that scene is in the office. MCU which is medium close up gives an impression of the main hero; he looks tired and angry. After main hero prints something we have a close up on the sheet of paper he has printed. This shot is there to make audience understand that the action in the film began, as something weird happened. In some point wee see that he/main hero puts his sheet of paper next to the printer and gets something to drink. When main hero drinks a cup of water we can see a worm’s shot from under the black dot (00:49s) of the film, this shot is called: framing, it is used there to create a thought to the audience that something very unusual is going to happen. The main hero puts his cup on this sheet of paper and it disappears, then we see him looking at the printed paper and the shot there is framing from under thee paper again, so the audience can see what emotions main hero has on his face. Later on when he understands what could be done with this paper we have an eye line match to the food machine (01:23m), he does not say anything but we understand that as camera points at it. When he is standing next to the machine and has the sheet of paper placed against the glass we have a close up on his hand, so audience finally understands what exactly could be done with this paper. Also this is a breakpoint moment in the film (when he starts to steal).  When he stole a chocolate we have a close up on his face, and we can see that he looks impertinent and we can see that he is searching for something else to steal. Straight after that we have an eye line match on the door where is money locker locked (we do not know this yet here) audience would think that there is something more serious because of the look of the main hero. After he opened up the room, he places the print on the wall of the money locker, and on this place we have a close up on how he places the paper. Ha placed paper on a small bit of scotch tape, and author made a close up there to give audience a hint of what is going to happen. After we have some close ups on main hero and pile of money he created. Close ups on his face are made to express the feelings of him and close ups on money to see how greedy is main hero. In the end we again have a close up on the small bit of scotch tape and wee see that hint we have been given was right as this sheet of paper falls off. The last two shots are: long shot (LS) and extreme long shot (XLS) of the locker to represent that he is alone inside and no one is going to help him, as on the XLS we can see again that there is no one else in the office.

   The camera gives us quite a lot of close ups on the main hero, this I would calla camera treatment to the main hero always expresses his emotions.

 

Sound/music

   There are two types of sounds one is diegetic sound which happens through out the scene and non diegetic sound which happens is certain parts of the scene, like when some sort of action is happening to the print with the black dot.

   When main hero touches or does an action to the print a sound effect happens. The other sound effect would be when we hear sound of printer in the end, printers are usually quite in the big room as sound is spread out the room equally, but here we can hear printer very loud. It can give an impression that office is so empty and quite that you even hear this printer louder that usually. The other reason for this could be that when we are getting out from the money locker printer gets louder so we ca not hear the knocks from the main hero, which also gives us expression that no one will hear  and rescue him.

   Sound happens all the time when audience needed to be concentrated to the print. The important moment would be when hero puts the cup on the paper and cup disappears-in this moment special effect is happened.  So sound relates to the whole story as the print is one of the most important things in the narrative.

 

Edit

   The whole film is based on the print which was made. First part is when main hero just working and he is not in the mood to do any work at all. The second part of the film is when he finds out about this magic paper and starts to steal food and money. In the end he locks himself by mistake because of this paper as well.

   This paper related to sounds in the scene, as when main hero tries to touch it or does with it any manipulations the special sound appears.

   The edit with paper and its magic characteristic is related to the narrative because the whole scene is based on this paper.

   Edit changes are not fast and frequent. Edits are changing in places where it is needed; example of this could be when we have an eye line match or point of view of the magic paper. Only in the end we have quite fast editing, when the main hero steals money from the locker, edits are made fast to represent that main hero in agony and nervous and wants to take money as fast as possible.

Short Film Deconstruction, Film Name: (OFFSIDE)

Link for the film: (film name: OFFSIDE)

Narrative

   The concept of the film is carrying out the idea that war is not a football match or game overall. Film starts from point when two Israel soldiers walking next to the boarder to Palestine and listening to radio, when two Palestinian soldiers appear on the other side of the fence/boarder. Two Israeli soldiers dropped the mini radio and a football match turned on they also pointed guns on Palestinian solders and they all freeze in that position. Then we see emotions of all four soldiers while they listen to the radio and in the same time point guns at each other.

   The premise in comparison between the real war and football game, we associate this scene as people are playing game. They are opponents but through out the scene we start to understand that they do not want to shoot each other.

   The active question in this film could be: “why war?” In the end of a shooting action my own first association was: “war is not a game”, I thought that those people were killing each other in agony, Israeli soldier shoot by mistake, and the Palestinian soldier did not have a choice because he thought that other two are going to kill him as well. In the end of the shooting action the man in radio says: “that there is offside in the game” which is sounds very ironic, but in war there are no offside/mistakes. They did not even want to kill each other in the end. We could see it in the eyes of the both sides of the fence,-they did an offside/mistake but it is too late now to change as they are dead, but in the football match there is going to be happening something else, like replaying the ball.

   Defining moment is when those two soldier teams killing each other in agony. The one who have shot first was actually a protagonist, he have shot first because he was so into football game that he might almost forget about the real life-which could represent to the audience that he is a person like everyone else as everyone has some interests, and anyone could be on his place. When radio announcer said goal Israeli shot the Palestinian solder because of rising tension in the game. The reason why Israeli might have shoot first in this scene is representation of equality of the sides in war i.e. the producer of the film might give you the thought that there are no good and bad sides in war at all. One of the antagonists started to fire as well, maybe because he thought that he will be shot as well as I have mentioned above. In the end of this film there is an irony because when all people in the scene are dead the football announcer says: “oh no there is an offside” but people are dead and radio is kind of describes their situation in the happy way because originally it described football match.

   The audience was involved in compassion and tension throughout the film. Creator of the film made people being compassion on film by placing there a recording of radio football match because when people watch football they are nervous and waiting for a goal. In this scene people subconsciously do not want goal to be happened (which is death of people from any side of the fence/boarder), but creator would not show film without the goal especially when it is obvious and aimed to happen. So we watch it and want to people get together in peace, and we know that this will never happen.

 

Character/Elements

   Protagonists in this scene are Israeli soldiers and it is might be represented by them having an American gun M16, and as we all know America represents itself as a peace making country.

   The antagonists ate the Palestinian soldiers, the way they represented them in the bad terrorist way is that they have come out from the bushes. Also Palestinians use the forbidden weapon which is stereotypically AK-47.

   The way terrorists oppose Israeli soldiers is that they pointing guns at each other and waiting to shoot, but no of them want or physically and mentally kill their opponents because while they were listening to radio they have remembered about football and the normal life outside of the war.

   Two Palestinian soldiers are stopping protagonists in the film. Protagonists or in this case two Israeli soldiers were patrolling the boarder/fence between Palestine and Israel. The result on the protagonist is that they are not going to carry on walking and patrolling, but in the end the result on protagonists is death, but the reason of their death was their own fault as one of protagonists started to shot first.

   A character trait of soldiers is scariness. They all the same people in the real life, and we can actually see that when they are listening to the radio, they are acting the same; they look a bit emotional in the film, this could represent their stereotypically emotional behaviour of Middle-East people. Eventually one of them shots because of too much of pressure in the game which can mean that Middle-East people are hot-tampered.

   All those factors listed above are perfectly representing the theme. In the world today everyone talks about war in Afghanistan and Middle-East overall and this scene is about the same thing. The concept of narrative is to carry out the idea of peace in the word, try to make people understand that war is not a game. As this was ironically demonstrated in the scene because when soldiers killed each other you could hear radio speaking after all soldiers have shot each other,- wait a minute, it is offside, offside that’s a tragedy nobody could win is the situation like this!! Absolutely no point to it in the circumstances, travesty of justice…

 

Point of view

   The point of view in the film is mostly made of someone outside even thaw we have a large amount of eye line matches and point of view shots. The reason why this film has POV from someone outside is to make audience understand that war is bad because people understand how they behave if they look at each other from the side.

   The point of view shifts and we see then what those solders actually see but overall POV is from the audience.

   We are not given a huge amount of background; we have some background of the actual place of the scene, which is somewhere in the Middle East and most likely in Israel and Palestine. We also have idea of a cultural background of people in this scene; we know that they are from Middle East and that they are soldiers. Throughout the scene we find out another background of people; we find out that they are the same people with similar interests as everyone else and just killers who is searching for someone to kill.

 

Style/tone

   The structure of the whole scene is narration. The radio in this case is telling the whole story or gives a hint because it does not actually talks about soldiers. It talks about the football match which is in it.

   The style of the film is war. There are two sides/points of view which are arguing between each other by having fights. This film could also be called drama because of irony and unfairness in it. The unfair part is that soldiers will not hear the end of the football match and will never realise that mistake and the pointless of war. We can se pointless of war just after the end of action, when all soldiers are dead and we understand that war is not a football game, soldiers die but football players do not.

   Soldiers acted nervously when they were pointing guns at each other as they should be doing as it is a real war. When they started to listen to the radio they had a passion on it.

   Camera styles and edit patterns made this film dramatic when the shot of overall scene was made (four dead people and one working radio which they did not listen until the end). There is also a bit of action shots edit moves camera within the shots made by guns in the film and camera angles were showing how bullets shots people( white there was shooting action no faces were shown) to represent that feeling in the war/shooting are unnecessary. The other reason to show that bullets went to their bodies is that to show that there are no chances to stay alive, to show that they have been shooting to very important human organs.

   The narrative and video structure are very closely related to each other, the whole video is based around the radio man. All movements are accompanied with radio

 

Camera

   Point of view shots were used to show the emotions of the soldiers. In the beginning there is a tracking shot which makes us see the landscape first and then people. The reason for this is to give audience an impression of the area (which in this case would be a middle of nowhere) and then we see the people and have very rough ideas what are they and what are they doing. There are also quite a lot of close ups on soldiers’ faces, to show the audience the feeling of the soldiers.

   There are quite a few track shots in the beginning of the film; to show who those people are and where are they walking. To make audience understand who are those people. There also a zoom out shot from the side when soldiers found out each other and pointed guns at each other. This shot made for us to understand what is actually happened. There are three zoom out shots first one explaining what is happened in the beginning when those soldiers met each other, second shot is reminding us that they are standing still on the same place staring at each other and listening to the radio. Third one is when everything is happened; it shows the result and culmination of the whole scene.

   There is a slow motion happening when one of Israeli soldiers shot, it is made there to represent the disruption of created peace between the two opposite sides. This slow motion also represents that everything is gone back to its places, as it was when they did not listen to the radio.

   There are some close-ups on the radio so we actually understand that narration comes from this device. It also gives us a weird expression that there is a narrator but as a diegetic sound in the film.

   There is also close up on the radio/narrator, this camera shoot is there to represent to us that life is still goes on but those soldiers are not.

   There are also shot reverse shots between soldiers, those shots show us the emotions of soldiers when they look at each other throughout the film.

   Camera treats all characters as football players, when there is enumeration of football players in the radio; camera starts to switch from one soldier to another. It is made for the audience for better understanding of the idea of the film. Also all characters are not filmed from the low angle shot or from high angle shot, because camera treats all characters as equal people. As if we would have Palestinian soldiers from the los angle shot we would straight away think of them as a antagonists, even thaw that film meant them all equal.

 

Sound/music

   There are mainly diegetic sounds of radio, footsteps and gun shorts also there are sounds of nature as well. The reason not to put non-diegetic sound into this film could be because producer wanted people being concentrated on what is going on in the scene and bring compassion of audience higher.

   All sounds are diegetic so they relate to the film in each moment of the scene.

   Sounds would not really relate to the theme as those sounds are voice of a happy radio speaker which is not related to killing. But in this film creator mixed happiness with death on purpose to give this film irony and make the scene quite powerful in its meaning to the audience.

   There is a sound effect in the middle of the scene when radio starts working bad. That was made to bring some disruption onto the scene and made people think that soldiers are going to kill each other. The other sound effect I this scene is when soldiers start to shot each other, man in radio starts to shout due to the goal which was scored in the football game. Throughout the scene voice of man in the radio describes the progress in the game as well as describing situation between soldiers (without knowing it of course) that could be as a special effect as well.

   The radio in this film is a diegetic sound but it is also  a narration because it gives to audience a feeling that the whole scene was narrated by someone outside the film and it is that and diegetic sound at the same time.

   The narration does impact on the narrative and theme by telling to the audience what is actually happening in the whole scene. Narration also have impact on POV as well, as we are watching at this scene from outside and narration helps the audience to look at this scene from outside life from the side as well. If soldiers would speak we would be concentrated in the film and our POV would within those soldiers.

 

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   The whole film is based around the radio dropped. First part is when two solders going on the road they can hear the radio interference, and in the same time one of the solders heard something in the bushes. The sound of radio is intersects with real world, making audience think that something is going to happen. Sound is combined with shots almost throughout the film, because film is actually based on the radio football match.

   Narrative is related to the sound in the same way, as the whole story is related to the playing radio football match.

   Characters are affected by the radio as well as narrative and shots which were edited. The emotions of the soldiers are concentrated on the football match more than at each other. Soldiers are concentrating on each other when they have been distracted. First destruction was when the radio had interference for the second time in the whole scene and the second time when one of the soldiers fired by mistake.

   The speed of edits changes very close to the end. Is it probably made to increase pressure on the audience, make audience a bit more nervous and give them feeling that something is going to happen. Also camera shots are going quite fast when soldiers are shooting each other, it is done to represent agony, and how fast does it takes to kill each other.