Over Analysis

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Over By Jorn Threlfall

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Narrative

  • reverse chronology
  • slow reveal of information
  • information leads to other conclusion than what ends up happening

Genre

  • real life crime
  • story based around real thing that happened
  • subverts expectations of genre, not normally expected event

Representation

  • upper middle class community
    • regarded as safe
    • posh area
  • crime is wiped away and erased, considered unimportant by community
  • how people and their deaths can be moved on from too easily and forgotten
  • desperation by people from poverty
  • man that died was from a place traditionally seen as third world
    • his death is considered unimportant

Audience

  • misdirection
    • audience lead away from actual conclusion
  • visuals let audiences question events
    • active viewer
  • lack of dialogue means no audience positioning
  • audience is in "detective" place, no character development

Micro Elements

  • sound of body falling to shock audience
  • long shots to separate audience from people
    • in role of observer
  • camera moves around grass, until last shot from opposite direction to first shot
  • no vococentrism, isolation from people
  • no pov shots
  • night to day
  • mise-en-scene used to lead narrative
  • ambient sound of police station establishes location
  • many ellipses between shots, cutting between times of day


What I Will Take Forward

I like the narrative structure, it presents information in an engaging and original way. I also like the use of sound to separate the audience from being positioned with any one character, and to make them become active in their deciphering of the text.

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