Research Tasks - "Scene 26" - Gareth Allen

Scene 26

This short film seems to have the genre of drama and thriller. The reason that I think this is a drama piece is because, you are seeing the man on the floor being all tied up with a tube in his mouth. This deals with emotional themes as he doesn't know how he got there. You also hear a ticking noise coming from a briefcase under the bed. This is suggesting that there is a bomb in this and he is trying to turn it off. I think that this is also a thriller piece as you see somebody's feet dangling in the air in the bathroom. You also see a pool of blood on the floor around the legs, but you don't actually see the body or the persons face. This makes the audience left in the unknown about what has happened and who it has happened to. You also see a little girl come into the room while the man is underneath the bed. You don't know who she is, or what she is doing but she looks at the man for a long time. She steps on his legs, and then starts to jump up and down on the bed that he is underneath.

I feel that this short film has used the two different genres of drama and thriller well together. This is because, you are left in the unknown from the thriller aspects of the film, and are curious about what has happened to the man. You also are wondering at the start of the film what has happened to then man and how did he get to be in that position and who did this to him. These are all questions that the director, Rob Hardy, has wanted the audience to ask themselves while watching this short film.

This short film uses the format where he has a moment where he is left wondering what is going to happen and is day dreaming. You see him laying on the floor outside a hotel room presumably, and he is all tied up. You then see him crawling around the hotel looking for people to possibly help him in the position that he is in. By the end of the film, you see him under a bed with a little girl jumping up and down on the bed. You then suddenly see him back outside the room in the hotel in the position that he was at the start of the film.

The sounds that you hear throughout the film are mainly diegetic sounds. This is good because, you hear what sounds the man that is tied up on the floor is making during his struggle to find people to help him. You don't hear any non diegetic sounds during this short film however, showing how it wants the audience of the film to see what he sees, and make it socially realistic.

The themes and issues of this film are about the horror and misunderstanding that there is shown in this film. You see him lying outside of his hotel room possibly, and is tied up on the floor. You also see a pool of blood on the floor which gives it the horror side to the film.

The target audience for this short film I think is possibly people between the age of 16 and 30. I think this because, it seems to be a horror genre of a film which means that some people will prefer to watch this than others. This is why I feel that this is mostly men are going to want to watch this as they are stereotyped to prefer this film to females.

Crew
* Director - Rob Hardy
* Writer - Rob Hardy
* Producer - Ben Timlett
* Editor - Ben Unwin
* Music - Ron Wright
Cast
* Man - John Rowley
* Girl - Lily Hardy
Related Links
Bill and Ben Productions site
Clermont Film Festival site

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