What about the bodies

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The film starts with a high angle establishing shot (most likely filmed using a crane) displaying a long road running through empty fields as the titles start to roll, all you can hear is the digetic sound of the wind blowing the grass, it is a dark gloomy day with a dark cloudy sky. Then we hear the digetic sound of a motor nearing, a car dives past the camera down the road and the camera starts to rise up higher. The combination of the silence, types of shot and movement and location combined already create a sense of danger or uncertainty which draws the viewer in. The shot lasts for about 25 seconds then we see more shots of the car as it carries on through it's journey. Within these shots we see the car pass a pale blue van where the shots lasts a little longer than the others and we hear the digetic sound of a hand saw coming from inside the van as it shakes on the outside, this shows that the van or whoever is inside it has some significance in the story.
We then start to hear sheep as the car carries on driving through the field, there is a non-digetic soundtrack which starts to play, a somewhat comical whistling tune to liven up the situation, from here we know that there will be a sense of comedy in the story.
We are then introduced to the first and main character of the story through a mid-shot as he drives through the field of sheep irritated by their sounds.
He then comes to a stop and we see another high angle crane shot which pans from left to right as the car passes to the side and makes a stop, there is a short non-digetic bass sound which comes to a stop and ends the fading whistling tune. Then we see a few quick shots of the man viciously eating an apple looking around for something.
Then we see a an extreme long-shot of him waling up the side of a cliff where we see a steep drop through an over shoulder shot.
Then more short shots of him finishing off the apple then spitting and tossing it of the cliff.
The shots carry on in this style as the man returns to his car where he regularly checks to make sure no one is looking while he opens his boot to remove a shovel, there is a non-digetic metalic wipe sound effect used which adds significance to the shovel. The man then proceeds to the back door of the car where he opens the door and we see a woman which seems to be dead but when he looks at here we see a flash back of her lying in a bed smiling. The flash back then ends and the man looks sincerely at the body but then has a short shock memory which we see through a few very short flash transitioned shots, then he starts to throw up. This view of the man being sick creates a feeling of sickness but also confusion for the audience which may make them turn away in disgust but keep them wondering what will happen.
He carries on having these short shock memories and throwing up in the same style of quick shots as before which create continuity by speeding up the time.

We then see a long shots of the blue van from before approaching and the man tries to close the door but the woman's foot is in the way, he forces it till it closes while we see parallel editing from the van to the man and back as it nears. He finally closes the door and goes to the front as he slips on his vomit then starts to drive away. The quick editing again creates tension keeping the audience glued to the action.

We then see a point of view shot from inside the van as the man drives away. When he comes to a stop he realizes he forgot the shovel where the van is which we see through another quick flashback shot. He decides to go back and retrieve it.
We then see him quietly sneaking to the van where he looks under and we hear the shing sound again as he spots the spade. He is then surprised by a detached arm covered in blood which drops to the ground and a non-digetic sound of a heart beat starts which adds to the tension. He grabs the spade then pulls it quickly making noise but manages to escape. However this does not go unnoticed by the man in the van. We see a close up shot of the fist of the detached arm symbolizing the man's anger then he dumps the arm in the van and proceeds towards the other man with the spade.
We then see a long shot of the main character arriving at his car with the spade but again throwing up in disgust even more than before which creates the same effect as before on the audience. When he gets back into the car he sees a dark shadowed figure of the woman in the back and flees out into the field but slips on his vomit again falling flat on his back. The man from the van then appears and knocks him unconscious with his own spade. Then to our surprise the woman gets out of the car sneaks up towards the man from the van like a zombie and knocks him unconscious then spits on the man from the car showing her revenge.
At this point the story turns quiet comical again and the audience keep stay glued in agitation as a new story unfolds.

We then see the main character waking up in the car with the woman as she looks at him with an angry lifeless expression on her face, there is also the whistling tune soundtrack playing again as the two characters exchange looks then the woman brakes on a hard frame knocking the man unconscious again, we then see another flash back of the woman in the bed.
It carries on to a point-of-view shot of the sky from the eyes of the man from the van as he gains consciousness again seeing his toes through a blurred shot as he wiggles them.
The we see a similar thing with the man from the car as he wakes up. We see a close up of his face then another shot at an obscure up-side-down angle of the woman digging a hole in the field. It carries on to some quick parallel editing exchanging shots between the two characters as the man rolls the car down the hill and gets in only to find that there are no keys. Again there is a repetition of the story, his actions do not go unnoticed by the woman and he gets out of the hole to go after him. Then the man in the van shows up. He gets out to attack the woman but she knocks him unconscious again and hijack his van to go after the other man with the car. At this point it seems to be like a wild goose chase between the three characters and starts to become repetitive although there will be no more.

The woman drives towards the man with the car at high speed as he struggles to push the car down the road. We see a panning shot from the van to the man pushing the car showing direction without a stop which hints the idea there is going to be a collision. The heart beat sound starts playing again as we see more parallel editing of quick shots between the man and the woman in the car with tears forming in her eyes. The tension should start to build again, although at this point I found the situation quiet amusing due to the longitude of the story and the constant repetition. I knew what was coming. Then through a direct long shot aimed at the man pushing the car the woman screams and crashes him ending both their lives. Or maybe not.....

This fits in very well with the conventions of a short film as there is no dialogue, all information was conveyed through movement and gestures, significance of props towards the characters and narrative and additional sound effects combined with a combination of directive shots and fast and slow editing. this forms an overall successful short film which ended exactly where it should leaving the audience satisfied with the conclusion. As well as this the idea was quiet unique and amusing and it holds similarities to aspects of narrative and semiotics we found with other short films we have analyzed such as the quick directive shots and cuts in the editing in the films The Black Hole, Strangers and The Sound of Silence.

By Naji