The short film 'Love Sick' follows the protagonist as he deals with a breakup with his ex-girlfriend. He is initially upset by the news but gets over it quickly. He goes on a quest to find a new girl, facing obstacles along the way. Though he catches one girl, he realizes it won't work out. By the end, he sees a new potential partner and easily pursues her, providing resolution to his dilemma. Short films like this use visuals and body language over dialogue to efficiently convey the story of love and relationships in a brief format with an open-ended conclusion.

1. Analysing a short film.
‘Love sick’ short film.
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2. At the beginning of the short film there is a close
up of a female
and it looks like she’s in the middle of
confrontation with someone.
Even though there is confrontation going on
in the scene the background is still very
bright and colourful which indicates that it’s
still probably going to have a happy ending.
Over this scene there is a
voice over and the tone of the
voice is very soft which could
indicate love.
This is the agent
of change as she
breaks up with
the protagonist.
In the
short film
it’s mainly
dialogue
that
indicates
that she is
the ex
girlfriend.

3. The scene has plenty of light
surrounding it. Light is portrayed
as symbol of happiness and joy.
The mise en scene of his facial expression shows that
he’s just
been given bad news but his facial expression shows
that he can easily get over it. It’s kind of a ‘I’m used to
it’ look.
This represents that he can move on quickly just like
the short film itself. The short film uses facial
expressions instead of narrative as it’s a quicker
alternative.
This is the protagonist
We can tell this as he gets most of the screen time.
You can tell that
she is the
protagonists ex
girlfriend as
There is shot
reverse shot of 2 of
them on the
screen.

4. The use of this
gesture suggests
that love short films
can be quite
humorous as well as
serious.
They are light
hearted.
The problem is that
he is worried that he
will end up alone
And wants to find
someone this follows
Todorovs narrative
theory.

5. There's a new girl in this scene which shows new
opportunities come along often in love short films.
The leading male looks
hopeful again
Which represents that in short
films the moods change
From bad to good very
quickly.
The resolution for his
disequilibrium is that he
is on a quest to find a girl
for him.
Again this is the typical structure
for short films according to
narrative structure.

6. This part of the short film shows a male running
after a girl he’s just found after he declares that
is the girl of his dreams. He has many obstacles
to get through to get to her. He manages to get
through them all. This represents that in love
Short films people will do anything to get what
they want.
His quest it a short action sequence as
action has to be condensed in a short
film.
There isn’t much dialogue in this scene
they communicate through movement
and sound and facial expression.

7. He finally catches the girl of his dreams and then realises it’s not
going to work.
In this scene they use body language to tell the story more instead of
dialogue for example in this scene you can tell that she wants him to get
away from her.

8. His mood then goes back down to how it was
at the beginning but then see’s a new a prize.

9. This time without any obstacles in his way he chases after the girl and gets her.
This is the resolution because it’s the end of
the short film and they managed to resolve the
issue.
The short film is left open
ended which is typical for
short films.