The black hole

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Transcript of The black hole

The Black Hole Short film

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This is one of the first shots in the film. Firstly the setting and the character’s outfit imply that this a work place environment/office and the shirt and tie is a worldwide icon for businessmen. The facial expression of the man connotes he is tired and worn out and possibly in a ‘mid-life crisis’. The director has used dark and grey lighting to resemble the man’s emotion making it seem as a dull environment. The setting also connotes that this short film is based on present society as many people now work in an office due to de-industrialization.

When the black hole is ‘printed out’, this connotes to the audience that something unusual is going to occur, keeping them intrigued to know what happens next.

When the character puts his cup down on the black hole, the editor used synthetic and non-diegetic sound. This adds to the unusualness occurring and every time this sound is used through out, the audience will associate this sound with the black hole.

Lots of mid-shots and close ups are used to show the character’s expression and fascination of what he has just discovered (the black hole). It could be that the audience have the same facial expression as him as what is happening is very unusual.

The shot above adds to the comedy genre which may amuse the audience. Also, this scene reveals the character’s personality as it connotes how greedy he is being and taking advantage of the black hole.

In this scene, he is looking back to see if anyone is around which connotes that he is up to something mischievous which he is.

In the end scene, the action connotes the character’s greed as he takes more and more money each time. This surprises the audience as well as amuse them as this is quite an astonishing scene. His facial expressions also connote how happy and over-whelmed he is due to what he is able to do now with the black hole.

Due to his greed, the black hole led him to get trapped inside the cabinet which the audience did not see coming. I believe that the short film sends out an message to the audience; the message being not to be greedy and if they are, it destroys them.