Unit 22 - Camera and Meaning assessment - Porcelain Rising

With this short film i will explaining and inferring the most significant shots and explain the character, genre, settings and narrative and i will be explaining the effects, purpose and the meaning.

Shot one
In this first shot the music which sound like a cradle, this foreshadows that they is a young person involved in this short film. Also cradle are for babies, but yet the put the cradle sound over dark background with a crackly font. The effect this has on the audience is to show that this is a horror/thriller. In between the cracks in the background could symbolise as blood because the connotations to the colour red is blood, death and evil.









Shot Two
In this shot there is a little girl which was foreshadowed with the music in the first shot. The girls room is mainly white which shows that she is a pure and innocent girl while the setting being in her room, showing that she is being disturbed. The camera is a t a long shot to show the environment that she is in. The angle is at a low angle to show that something could be under her bed or because the camera is using dolly zoom could show that some low and evil is moving slowly towards her. The reason why i use the words 'low and evil' is because whatever she could be looking at, is below her and the devil is below as well. The effect this has on then audience is that there is something demonic is in her room. The narrative to this is that someone or something is going to attack her or possess her. The lighting is very dark which allows the audience to know it is night therefore whatever that is in her room is invading her privacy. The sound is diegetic because the audience can hear it and so can the characters. The audience can hear rain thunder and lightning which reflects on to the girl's mood; showing that she is frightened and scared. The effect it has on the audience is that as the audience hear the lightning struck it creates tension and anxiety. The way they edited the colour shows that everywhere else in her room is dark apart from her and her bed which also relates to the fact she is innocent. This shows that the genre is a thriller/horror.









Shot Three
This shot is a two shot because it shows the relationship between the two characters. This shows that her her dad is concerned about his daughter because her facial expressions look worried. The lighting here is still dark and grey which refers to the thriller/horror however they have edited the colour yellow/gold which represents God and safety, therefore it's showing the audience outside of her room is safer rather than the atmosphere she is in now; her room is full of evil and outside is more godliness. The narrative to this is that the door will dramatically close and the dad will get hurt/killed and the girl will become possessed.



Shot Four & Five
This shot is a long shot on the doll to show the environment and atmosphere it is in, this shows the audience this is the same environment the little girl is in and that the girl was looking at the doll in the first shot. The lighting and the sound changes as the camera switches to the doll. The way they edited the lighting becomes brighter and flashes on the doll twice; first time as a long shot, second time as a close up/low angle to show the killers face in more detail and to create mystery and also to show that she has more power than the girl. The sound of the lightning; which is diegetic because us as the  audience can hear it and the characters can also hear it; becomes louder to create suspense and tension towards the audience, this shows that the genre of this short film is thriller. Also there was a second sound as the camera switched to the doll, which was a low vibrating base sound. This sound is non-diegetic because only the audience can hear it to show us that the doll is evil and demonic, whereas the characters can't hear that sound. The narrative to this is that the room will become all dark and then light back up but the doll would be next to the dad and attack him, then attack the girl.


Shot Six & Seven
This shot was taken at a low angle to show something demonic is looking at the girl from a long shot to create suspense and intensity, this shows that the genre is a horror/thriller. The atmosphere is still in the girls room therefore her privacy is being invaded and the girl is confused because she can't find the doll. The lighting and editing is brighter because it shows the girl having more power because of the low angle. The colour are white and gold which represents purity and hope. However in the other shot when she turns the lamp of her little bit of hope has gone. The sound is non-diegetic because only the audience can hear a low vibrating sound and the characters can't. If the characters could hear the sound they would know that something is there. The diegetic sound which is the the rain, thunder and lightning is purposely made for this short film to give that thriller look. The narrative to this is that the little girl could see her and it will become a chase then the doll will attack her.



Shot Eight
In this shot the audience can hear the sound of the doll speaking, this sound is diegetic because the audience and the character can hear it. The voice sounded like a demon voice telling the girl to come out and play. The effects this has on the audience is that it creates tension, suspense and mystery because they don't know what will happen to the girl which shows a thriller genre, however because of the fact it creates fear within the audience make it a horror genre. The camera is at a low angle/long shot to show that the girl is under her bed and the doll is on the bed which shows that the doll has more power over the girl in her own room. Also there is a sound of a heart beat that is non-diegetic because only the audience can hear it. The heart beat represents the girl's heart showing she is frightened. The characters facial expression as the demon talks isn't shocked at the fact the doll is talking, reason to this is that this isn't the first time the doll has spoke, therefore this shows the audience that the doll had been invading the girl's privacy for a long time. The lighting is still grey and dark, however on the right hand side there is light which represents hope from above but the killer is above as well. The narrative to this is that the girl will come out from under her bed and the doll will attack her or possess her or the demon that is inside of the doll will go into the little girl.









Shot Nine
This shot is an extreme close up to see the girl's facial expression with a lot of detail to show that she is frightened because you can see the fear in the characters eyes. It also uses shot/reverse shot with the girl and the doll however it uses it repeatedly and a rapidly to build tension towards the audience. The sound the audience can hear is the bed hitting the wall slightly and the audience can see the girl shaking this can infer that the demon that is in the doll is transferring itself into the girl through her eyes in her room because the audience can also hear the doll chanting, that's why the camera switches from the girls eyes to the dolls lips. This shows that it is a horror genre. As a non-diegetic sound being the heart beat; the audience can still hear it as the attack/exorcism is happening.  The editing on the lighting is every time a lightning struck the camera shot would change rapidly to create suspense. The narrative to this is that the girl will become a demon and kill her dad.









Shot Ten
This shot is a mid shot and the its showing that the character is confused by his facial expressions and his body language. The editing of the lighting is dark because something bad has happened, as you can see that in the door way there is a gold colour to show hope that colour is thinner then the shot the audience saw before which shows that there is less hope for the dad than there was for the girl because the atmosphere was the girl's room, this shows that this is a horror. The sound of panicking and screaming and heart beats have gone because no one is being attacked right now, all you can here is the thunder and lightning as the audeience heard as diegetic in the beginning of the short film. Therefore this shows the audience that it's his turn to die. The narrative to this is that the dad will see the demon and get killed.









Shot Eleven
This shot is at a high angle to show that the girl on the bed in the girl's room  is vulnerable and fragile because the demon has come out of her. The editing of the colour of her dress is white because she is now pure and innocent, however the lighting around her is still dark and grey/black which tells the audience that the demon/evil is still in the room, this shows that it's a horror. The sound is a 'bom' sound which is non-diegetic because only the audience can hear it and the characters can't, This reason for this sound is because as the camera changes to the girl on the bed it showing the audience that the girl on the bed isn't the man's daughter therefore it leaves a mystery because the audience don't know what happened to the girl. The narrative to this is that the daughter is possessed and she will kill the dad and become another little girls doll.









Shot Twelve
This shot is a mid shot and its showing that she is going to kill the day because of her body language and the fact she has a knife in her hand. The sound; which is non-diegetic because only the audience can hear it; becomes louder and the thunder becomes louder as the camera changes to the killer to show the audience that's his daughter and she is possessed. The sound proves that the short film is a horror. The colour of her dress is still white because underneath, inside there is still a girl full of purity. The lighting is dark in her room because the demon is in there and the lightening struck because the demon is going to struck an attack. The narrative to this is that the dad will get killed and the demon will move on to another family and do the same thing.









Shot thirteen and fourteen
This shot is a shot reverse shot to show that two people are having a conversation in this case the dad and his daughter is having a conversation and it is using shot reverse shot to show this. Whilst their doing this they are not breaking the 180 degree rule therefore they are using single cameras because if they were using multi cameras the cameras would get in the shot and they would have broken the 180 degree rule because they would have crossed the line of action.









Shot fifteen
This shot is match on action because the audience see him banging on the door outside the room therefore the camera is outside of them room as well then the camera switches to being inside the room as he character walks in therefore it looks more fluent and in time.









Shot sixteen
This shot as variety of jump cuts. The reason of this is to show the audience that the character is feeling un steady and becoming agitated because his daughter isn't getting the treatment she should and because he thinks she has a mental illness. You see this happening at 2:48.











Shot seventeen
In these shots there is shot to shot cutting to them in a quick pace as the doll is killing the little girl. The reason why the pace increases is to create intensity and suspense because an attack is happening. In this scene you will see this happening at 4:27.









This short film is closed ended narrative because it has a tight reading and the audience can follow the story easily. Also it has a fixed ending therefore you  know when it finishes because it has a beginning, middle and ending which means it's linear. It uses continuity because it uses shot reverse shot, the 180 degree rule and match on action to tell the story. We use continuity to add dramatic effects and to add to realism to hide the fact it's been edited. This is a single drama because it's only shown once and gives examples of realism. Short horror/thriller films are single drams because they all base on real life situations. Short horror/thriller films mainly use closed ending because it has as lot non-diegetic sound that the audience can hear but the characters can't and it uses a lot of continuity ellipsis by time and also because the have an end to it. Another reason why short horror/thriller films are always single drama is because the always focus on one character.