2. SOUND
During the stage when the main character found her
face beneath her mask, the silence increased the
tension as due to the narrative being backwards, the
audience weren’t aware what this meant.
The mystical music when the girl was leaving the
bathroom and the foregrounded noise of the school
students speaking highlighted how lonely the young
girl felt and showed that groups in a school
environment are important to young people and if
you aren’t in a group then you aren’t “popular”.
3. EDITING
To make it clear to the audience that the film is
starting from the end, the beginning shots are
reversed to create some confusion and keep people
interested in watching the rest of this short film.
The short film consists of many long edits to suggest
the length of emotion and thoughts that the girl may
go through because of the unhappiness that she may
be due to the many groups not including her because
of her looks (represented in this case through the
masks worn.)
4. CAMERA
Shots are used intelligently during this short film to
emphasise why the masks are used. Zooming is used
effectively to show what colour masks the students
are wearing as well as panning to posters with
messages about the colours to show what children in
school deal with in terms of popularity.
Some point of view shots are used to incorporate
what the main character views in her day to day life
and what she has to deal with everyone making
friends depending on the ‘colour of their masks’.
5. MISE-EN-SCENE
Props are the main mise-en-scene used in this film to
highlight issues which happen every day. By
including different colour masks to represent
personalities is a clever idea and when one of the
characters changed the colour of her mask, suggests
that some people change their behaviour around
separate groups within the school.
The weather outside also represents how many
students hide their true feelings about friendships in
order to stay in the best group they can.
