LO1- Analysis of a short film
LoveField This immersive short film, is intended to take the unsuspecting audience and engage them in an emotional ride. The suspense and drama created by the director allows the audience to falsely interpret the piece as a horror extract, the general conventions of the horror genre set the audience up to be at the height of their audio and visual awareness anticipating a jump scare. Ratthe's intentions do this allows him to take advantage of the audiences emotional attachment to the short film and makes an antic-climatic plot twist that astonishes the audience whilst breaking their perception of reality, this method distances the audience for the film, making them objective spectators as they are now mentally engaged with the film, forcing them to re-evaluate their opinion on the characters. The short film was hugely successful in captivating the audience in the drama displayed and forced the audience to jump to conclusions by the use of camera shorts, mise-en-...