The document provides an analysis of the cinematography, editing, sound, and mise-en-scene techniques used in the short film "Over". It notes that extreme wide shots are used throughout to give the audience an outsider perspective. Close-ups are briefly used to transition between time periods and break immersion. The editing clearly shows the reverse chronological order using timestamps. There is no soundtrack to build immersion. Props are used to convey plot points without revealing too much too quickly, but this also prevents audience immersion by not allowing speculation.

1. Film title: Over
Duration: 14 minutes
Cinematography
Throughout most of the short film, the camera stays at an extreme wide shot which causes
us, as the audience, to place more focus on the surroundings. During the opening scene, the
single extreme wide shot establishes both the time, as well as, the surroundings of the quiet
village. Furthermore, the consistent use of the extreme wide shots throughout the film
prevents the audience from engaging with any of the individual characters and it forces them
to engage more with the characters surrounding instead; giving them the feeling of an
outsider looking in. Later on in the film, the consistent use of the extreme wide shots are
briefly broken up and replaced by extreme close up shots. The close up shots are used to
transition the film from one sequence of time to another and are used to break the
audience’s immersion, the breaking of immersion is important as it allows the filmmaker to
present the moral of the film in a way that the audience will focus on.
Editing
The film’s use of editing is designed to clearly show the reverse flow of time that’s used to
portray the events throughout the short film. During the opening sequence, the film starts
with a panning shot of the village setting at night before quickly cutting to a day shot of the
same setting; in order to portray the reverse in time clearly, a timestamp was edited in to tell
the viewer the exact time that this shot was taking place. The use of the timestamp is
important as it breaks the traditional filmmaking rule of show don’t tell, further breaking the
audience’s immersion than the cinematography already has and forcing the audience to
force more on the message behind the short film.
Sound
The short film as a whole lacks any kind of soundtrack that plays in the background, this
leaves a lacking sense of importance to the scenes and prevents the audience from building
any sense of immersion within the film. The lack of a soundtrack also helps to correctly
frame the message behind the short film; without tense music behind it, discovering the body
lacks any sense of thrill, outside of curiosity of how he died, however, this how the filmmaker
wanted discovering the body to feel like as it links back to the true story of the man who died
and had nothing to mark his grave, almost like his death didn’t matter at all.
Mise en scene
When telling the order of the events from a reverse chronological order, the short film uses
props to pass on certain bits of information, without revealing too much too quickly. During
the opening sequence, we see a bouquet of flowers on the ground, symbolising where
someone has recently died, before we, as the audience gets a chance to speculate we’re
told that someone probably died here by a background character. The use of props through
this sequence is important for telling the audience the centre plot point of the short film, as
quickly and as fluid as possible, however; by immediately breaking the rule of show don’t tell,

2. we, as the audience, are unable to get immersed into the story because we lose the
opportunity to think for ourselves and put together the plot through the choice of props.