This short film analysis summarizes the key events and elements in the short film "She's Lost Control". The film establishes a bathroom setting through establishing shots. Throughout, the audience hears running water from someone showering. A medium shot introduces a key narrative element, leaving the audience wanting to know more. Subsequent extreme close-ups show a girl gently dabbing a wound on her body, suggesting fragility. A voiceover asks her a series of questions about when and why she started harming herself, to which she replies she does not remember or know, indicating she has lost control.

1. SHE’S LOST
CONTROL – SHORT
FILM ANALYSIS
Ben Bateman

2. The opening shots in this
are establishing shots, that
introduce the setting. The
items in frame clearly
reveal that the location on
screen is a bathroom. From
this, the genre of this
production remains
ambiguous, yet the bright
lighting vindicates
hopefulness and
transparency. Throughout
we hear diegetic sound of
water running from what
can assumed to be a
person in the shower.

3. A medium shot is used to
establish what can be
assumed to key element to
the narrative. The image is
unusual and intense the
audience to want to know
more.
An extreme close up of the
girl gently dabbing the wound
further suggest a fragility. At
this point, gentle score music
begins to play, creating a
serious, morbid atmosphere.

4. An over the shoulder shot shows
the girl examining herself in the
mirror. She appears disgusted
and some what frightened by her
own reflection. The close up
shows her picking at her scabs
and wincing in pain, the
morbidity further empathised by
the extreme close up which
reveals the wounds seeping
blood. Here a voice over asks her
“How old were you when this
first started?”
A voice over for the girl responds “I
don’t remember.” He continues to
ask her a series of questions in
which she repeatedly replies that
she does not know, this affiliates
with the title ‘She’s Lost Control’ as
she is unable to put a reason to her
actions. His questions reveal that
her wounds are self inflicted

5. The voice of the onscreen girl says:
“sometimes it just happens…it’s like
I’ve lost control.” This ties in with the
title, making it clear what the girl has
lost control of.

6. A medium shot shows a
young girl starring at what
can be assumed to be her
sister, with an expression
of horror and confusion.
The score music becomes
sinister as to amplify the
tension of this scene.
The shot cuts to the main
onscreen character,
looking at her top which is
covered in blood stains.
The screen cuts back to the
young girl who screams for
her mother.