Media case study - 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsC1_PCOGos

Short film: Victim
Director: Eddie Adamson
date released: May 23 2013

the short film is based on a teenage boy who finds himself being followed by the 'slender man' over the past few days. he goes out to the woods and finds a message. the short film continues to him tripping and falls over hitting his head. the boy is felt in the dark at night in the woods he uses his lighter to see in the dark. the short film ends when the when the boy sees someone in the dark.

The genre for the short film is horror. they portrayed this successfully by choosing a good location where the short film purposes were met, traditionally horror films are filmed somewhere were there no people around. also when the short film was building up towards the end, they chose to film it during night time where there was no light, to give he full effect of horror. also horror, thriller and or action works well during night times or anywhere dark.
The short film uses live action; therefore no animation or greenscreen. the reason for this could be, o allow the short film feel real.

In the short film there were only two characters used, the teenage boy who was playing the victim role and the man who was playing 'slender man' they fit well into characters from what they are dressed in, for example the teenage boy is in typical modern clothes; what any ordinary teenage boy would wear. and the 'slender men' who we see only towards the ending, he wears a mask to hide his identity, and when someone is unidentifiable, you're usually scared.

at the start of the short film we see a number of different angles of the location; field, grass, plants and its all fog and damp to give the full effect of horror during day time. there are many close ups, of the teenage boy as the camera follows him into his daily basis. towards the middle of the film were, the boy is jogging, the camera, zooms into his back, that leaves the audience into thinking that something is about to happen, however they almost trick us into thinking that.

Editing of the short film, shot by shot, to put the film in order to make a flowing scene, parts were there are more action, like running or when the director is trying to build tension the cutting rate increases, its more fast paced. because the short film has little dialogue or none at all, they replace it with sound that they edited in.fo example, he is in the dark alone the musics beat is faster. the reason why they use sound effects is to fill the awkward silence in, and the type they use fits into its genre

This short film in particular, uses camera techniques to fill in the audience with information, or the things they want to specifically highlight, for example, in the beginning they use close ups and wide shots on the location, to help the audience understand the necessary parts. i could also start my short film, with close ups of location, to get the story started. each characters are dressed a certain way, i could also have a character dressed in unidentifiable costume (mask.)  i could also use sound effects to replace, the dialogue.

the only reason why i choose this short film as my case study is because the short film has the same genre as the work as i am doing, which is action and thriller. however the storyline has nothing to do with the idea of our short film, but we can use the similar idea of when they are fighting towards mid of the film , the woods, because as one our location we too were thinking of shooting in the woods