Short Film Text AnalysisLAVANYAH RATHIMOHAN

Love Sick http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFDAvcwDPTA

1. Firstly we see a young women shouting at the man and showing her hand in his face and pushes him away. This is shown by mid shot. This makes the audience think why she was doing it.

2. Then Just he sees a young girl at a train station and falls in love with her straight away. He says 'The girl of my dreams' suggesting that he has dreamed about how his girlfriend should be like.

3. He then tries to find and after getting hit by a car he takes the boys bike which we saw before to make it easier for him. A close up is shown after he got hit showing his facial expressions.

4. After he found her finds out that she is taken. He walks off and asks himself whether there is a 'Juliet for this Romeo'. He sits on a bench.

5. He sees a women jogging past and again he begins to follow her. He thinks he has met the “woman of his dreams” again, and it starts all over again.

6. This short film ends on a cliff hanger, which makes the audience think what will happen to then man and the women who is jogging. Will he actually get to be with her or does he move on again?

The Desk http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k_kIyihNd-A

In this short film we see a boy called Peter who is new to the school. He doesnt know anyone.

As be entered the class room the teacher tells him to go and sit at a table.

The table is not normal

Then we see a girl entering the class room and Peter looks down this is shown by close up.

He starts to write on the desk “Hi, my name is Peter.”

The next day he sees that someone has replied to what he wrote on the table, “Hi my name is Julie“.

One day he walks away after he replies but comes back as he forgot his back and sees that Julie has replied already. From this point he realises that the desk is not normal.

He writes to Julie saying how she replies so fast.

however one day his class moved to another room and he doesn’t have the table anymore to talk to Julie.

the next a new girl joins and her name is Julie.

Through out this short film it makes you think who Julie actually is. Is she alive? Or is she a ghost?

Non-diagetic sound is used throughout the short film. Which is calm and its really slow.