The short film The Elevator follows a man entering an elevator. As more people enter, he calculates the total weight and realizes it exceeds the limit. When one overweight person exits, he enters another elevator where the occupants begin coughing and sneezing, revealing they are receiving treatment for swine flu. Though low budget, the film uses humor to tell its story solely within the confines of the elevator through clever editing and a repetitive musical score.

1. THE ELEVATOR
DIRECTED BY: GREG GLIENNA

2. PLOT
In this short film a man is simply getting into an elevator. The lift he
gets into has no people in at first, but then more and more people
start getting in. he then looks up at the weight that is aloud and it says
2000. He starts to guess the weight of the people in the lift and adds it
all up together realizing that its 1 pound over the limit. When the lift
then stops again he sees someone who is defiantly over the limit and
gets out. He gets into another lift and sees a bunch or normal size
people so thinks this is ok. They all start coughing and sneezing all
over him. They then get out and he sees the sign says swine flu
treatment. This was a funny short film that made me laugh even
though I'm sure it was a low budget film.

3. MISE-EN-SCÈNE:
SETTING /LOCATION
This must have been set in a office or hotel or something
with a nice setting and a working lift. There was not really
any other scene apart from inside the lift. The only other
parts of the set you could see would have been when the lift
opens. On the wall it said floor 1, floor 2 and so on. But this
was all you could really see.

4. MISE-EN-SCÈNE: ICONOGRAPHY
AND PROPS
Nothing was very iconic about this film. It was all set In a lift
with not much going on around it. The stress of being in a lift
and having a lot of people in at one time could be relatable
for an audience who frequently get into an elevator.

5. MISE-EN-SCÈNE:
COLOUR AND LIGHTING
The lighting is all the same. Quite a yellow tone. A type of
light you might find in a office or a cheap hotel. I think having
lots of light or bright colours might have made this too
different or not realistic. Its meant to be set in a normal
location.

6. MISE-EN-
SCÈNE: MAKE UP AND
COSTUME
The main actor Is a very normal guy. He doesn't have any
specific makeup or clothing too make him too look any
different to any normal person. This was posted 2010 so the
clothes the people where wearing in the elevator where very
old style but still looked normal.

7. EDITING: SOUND AND VISION
There was constant music playing in the background. It was the sort of
repetitive music you hear in lifts, sort of like jingles, playing background
throughout the whole thing. It made it funny because bad things kept
happening too the character in the movie but the music carried on
which made it quite comical. The editing was clever because the camera
seemed to stay in the same place the whole time. There where 5 and 6
person shots as they where all in the lift and the camera was looking at
all of them. I think the editing will have been so the people walked into
an actual lift but then they filmed In a small room they created to look
like a lift because I don’t think the lift would have been big enough for 6
people to go in and the camera along with all the equipment. This
looked really effective and real.

8. CINEMATOGRAPHY
I think the editing was really good for this film because it did
look lie all the actors where going into a lift even thought
they could have all been going into one place because the lift
wouldn’t have been big enough for 8 people and a camera
man to fit in. so this worked rally well even though I'm sure
they had a small budget. I also loved the sound as it was
effective and made the film much more comical.

9. TITLES AND CREDITS
The title was very plane and had no font to it. Which worked
quite well because after all the film was filmed in a lift and
didn't have much action going on.