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Short Film Analysis Worksheet - ‘About a Girl’
Technique Example from text Theme or meaning implied by use of technique?
used? (√)
Cinematography Aerial Shot Yes
When stood by and when This shows that she is ‘walking away from her
walking away from canal problems’. The main theme of this is to show a
loneliness and emptiness.
Close Up Yes
Most of the film is in close
up. This happens when she It shows her facial expressions and thoughts
is talking to the camera
Extreme Close Up
Establishing Shot Yes
This sets the general theme for the whole film by
At the start of the film, showing her alone and entertaining herself.
singing and dancing alone in Although she has friends, she feels isolated from
a field. her family and either likes her own company or
feels like she has to make do with it.
Medium Shot Yes
Two Shot Yes This shows that her relationship with her Dad is
When she is sat at the table strained as she is sat on the other side to him and
with her Dad. he is sat reading the paper rather than have a
conversation with his daughter.
Point-Of-View Shot (POV)
Over the Shoulder Shot Yes When she is on her phone This shows that her relationship with her Mum is
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and her Mum is stood probably even worse than the one with her Dad.
behind her. She is stood at quite a distance away from her
Mum and is also on her phone rather than having a
conversation with her Mum.
Overhead Shot
Reaction Shot
Camera Angle
High Angle
Yes When she is stood by the
canal
Low Angle
Canted framing
Pan
Track
Crane
Steadicam
Tilt
Zoom
When the baby is
underwater.
Editing Continuity Editing
Jump Cut Yes
This happens when she is
talking and it skips out any
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pauses she might make so
to make it look like one,
long speech at a very fast
pace.
Credits
Cross Cutting
Cutaways/Flashbacks Yes
This happens throughout
the film. Much like
flashbacks, it cuts away to
another scene - which has
already occurred - when
she is finished talking. An
example is when it shows
her Dads football match.
Freeze Frame
Eye-line Match
Graphic Match
Juxtaposition
Montage Editing
Parallel Editing
Visual Effects
Match on Action
Sound Diegetic Sound Yes
This happens a lot.
Examples are the ambient
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background noise, her
singing alone, her singing
with her friends and her
Dad and his teammates
singing football chants after
a match when she is sat
outside the pub.
Non-diegetic Sound
Score
Sound Effects
At the title, the font is in
the style of a mobile phone Texting is an activity available for everyone but,
text and you can hear the when you think of texting, it is more of a teenage
phone tone when the text related activity.
appears.
Sound Bridge
Dialogue
Incidental music
Sound Perspectives
Ambient Sound
Lighting High Key Lighting
Low Key Lighting
Back lighting
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