Technical Analysis I: Red

Red

Plot: Five people wake up in a room with now memory of what happened. Four are wearing a white shirt and one is a red shirt. Who can they trust and why are they in the room?

As you can see here, this is the title of the short film which is called 'Red. The letter 'e' in the middle have a different text colour which is red because red can represents blood and evil which can symbolise hell, devil etc. From looking at this, you could see that this short film's genre could be a horror or thriller movie.

In this screenshot, you could tell this is located in a tiny room or janitor room etc. This is where they film all their shots. This master shot show where they all are. As it is a tiny room, one of the character may have claustrophobia, this could show that the bad guy is dangerous. 

Depth of Field was quite used a lot in this short film as it show the main focuses the director wanted us to see, some focuses are importance, for example, showing us what it said on the paper "One of you knows the truth" while the background is blurred. It also written in red which goes well with the title of this short film to make it more mysterious. As it was written in red and capital, red also can represent danger, threat and anger as it was capital, this show that the people in the room are possibly in danger. 

In the beginning of the scene, there was depth of field being used as you can mainly see the guy being on the floor unconscious as he is the main focus while everything else in the background is quite blurred out as you can see the foot being blurred out as it is not important.

This screenshot show two character in one shot but one character is blurred as the main focus is on the guy wearing a red shirt to show the character's facial expression as he remembered what happened last time and he also confused as he thought the guy who is blurred out couldn't talk as he said "What happened?".

Up until here, there was a non-digetic sounds such as the suspense music playing in the background which only the audience could hear and not the characters. There was also couple digetic noises such as screams, characters' voices which can be heard by both characters in the film and the audience. 

This short film's colour correction is kind of yellow/green ish, it's sort of bring dull atmosphere but it goes very well with the music in the background as it create intense.

As you can see, the costumes is quite important in this short film because it goes with the story as the other people with white shirts don't remember what happened and the person with the "Red" shirt remembers what happened from the previous round and could be in possible danger as red represent danger. 

They uses a sequence of shots to reveal information such as props, they were important in this short film as they were significant to the short film e.g. clock, notes. Clock was the most important prop because it show that the bad guy is just playing with them all, every time the clock hit 10 o'clock and people are knocked unconscious, the bad guy go change the time back. The narrative is like a clock, it is repeating itself, as the clock is circle and and does the same thing everyday, the clock go clockwise and then repeat, as they wake up and figure out what is going on and fell unconscious at 10 o'clock, the bad guy go and changed the time back which mean they repeat the same routine throughout the whole eternity possibly. This show that the bad guy is playing a game with four innocent people. He leaves notes which is also significant in their pockets to confuse them. 

I don't think they used lighting for this short film because I couldn't see any lighting, so it's likely to be naturalistic lighting because it was filmed in a tiny room, so they must have used the light in the room so it makes it more realistic which makes more intense and scary.

They frame this shot by using close ups, they used this shot so they could show the character is intense or intimidating. This is the bad guy who's playing a evil game with four innocent people. When everyone in the room fell unconscious,he started smiling. It showed intense and superior as he's controlling and messing with their mind, you could tell that he's the evil guy. Low angles can also be used to show superior and powerful.

Wide shot was used in this shot so they could show the character is lonely, isolated or scared as in this shot she was crying because she was scared as she lost her memory and has no idea what happened and don't remember how she ended up in the room with four other people she may not know.