Short Film Analysis ( Finish )

The Black Hole by Williams and Sansom (2008) (UK) (3m) 

Written and directed by the British pairing of Phil Sansom and Olly Williams, The Black Hole is a deceptively simple story that places a fantastical discovery in a mundane world. Charlie, a tired office-woker, is will xerox something life-changing: the black hole. Unfortunately, his instinct to use it for quick personal gain will backfire somewhat. This film appears several times on this site - it's pretty cool and here it acts as an example of the best found in Britain - filmsshort.com

The entire short film takes place within a stereotypical boring office with only character,

who is a stereotypical employee in the office. In the first scene the camera moves from the right slightly unfocused until it reaches the office works once the camera stops on him he lets out a deep sigh, the office worker is standing over a printer, looking very agitated and bored of work. he then presses a button on the printer and then lets out a 'scuff', however due to his agitation he begins to let his frustration out on the machine and gives it a kick. In which then the printer responds a prints an A4 piece of paper with a large black circle in the middle, He seems to be confused on why that came since it isn't what he was printing in the first place. he seems to show worry and confusion as he puts this odd paper on the side and checks whats inside the printer and then shrugs off the entire incident. However when he picks up his coffee cup , the angle changes to that of the paper, all sounds that were happening  in the scene changed to a muffled voided sound and changes back to the first angle once he finishes the cup. Once he puts his cup down the angle changes abruptly focuses on his upper body and he steps back as if the desk next to him was shorter than before. As this happens his seems to show confuses and begins to towards the black paper and crouches down to the desk in which it is on and looks onto this odd sheet. he moves his hand into the paper  3 times with every time going deeper and pulls out that same cup he put onto the paper.

Throughout the entire short film the mise en scene seems to be plain and boring meets something out of fantasy and how easily things'll backfire because of greed. The sound used within the short film is relatively boring office sounds until the black hole is used, then it begins to used various muffled similar sounds but still those stereotypical sounds. This Short Film seems to be a Single Camera piece that uses various Multi Camera Techniques as in the use of angles and illusion caused by these angles which work very well with giving it that out of the ordinary effect. From the camera angles that incorporate the actors facial expression  they seem to start off with this bland depressive facial expressions and changes with more use of this black hole into a more mad with power and idea on what to do next, like a child with a new play toy. I think that this short film would still work as Multi camera piece as the techniques that have been used, as it consists of alot of angle changes.