Love Hurts - Fred

Aspects of the short film we inspire to use

• In this short film the creepy girl is some sort of metaphor representing the heartbroken girl's suicidal thoughts after her lover had hurt her. In turn, the cleaner seems to represent the main guy's suicide too. Suicide is dark and brutal and this short film was perfect to illustrate it through creepy visual and auditory cues.

• The opening pan of the mirror with the writing is effective as you are given names on the screen, but you are already fixed on wanting to know what comes after the creepy writing on the mirror, this could be a useful practice for our group to use in our short film, when wanting to slowly reveal something.

• When the cubical door closes in the reflection of the mirror, lighting is cleverly used to show a change of emotion, for example when she is crying and upset the lighting is more light to represent a calm section of the short film, this is faded into darker lighting, but we are still able to make everything out clearly, this could also be used to represent her feeling of fear.  

• Another way in which the main characters emotions are shown is through non-diegetic sound, when the character becomes nervous a track is played quietly to give more suspension until something is revealed, where a loud snippet of sound will be added, we hope to achieve this in our short film as it gives great indications of the characters feelings. 

Narrative Structure

• The narrative structure of this piece is standard in most short films, it begins with the character seeming under no threat.
• There is then a slow build up towards the revealing of the threat, that is shown towards the women. 
• We are then suddenly shocked by a quick change in atmosphere, emotion, pace etc that places us at the edge of our seats. 
• Finally it finishes with a conclusion, this can be presented in different ways e.g. weather we find out if shes dead, who is going to find the body, why has this happened. 
• However quite often a film is not explained at the end which is effective in creating a sense of mystery. 

Audience

• This film would be aiming to attract a more sophisticated audience that would be able to work out the message of the short film as well as the representation of death and suicide. 
• This film would not be targeting a young audience due to the scare factor, blood and gore.