Case Study 1

This short film is a thriller which narrates the story of a  teenager who falls a victim of the social media site "Facebook" as ge us sent a request to like a page entitled “Like this and you will die” the victim to be likes the page with the thought of it being a silly page which would have had no effect on his life whatsoever. As he clicked the ‘Like’ button lots of different strange things took places which led to his instant death from CD falling down to strange noises coming from the door. 

There are a number of camera angles used in order to create certain atmospheres in the short movie in order to keep audience on their edges of their seats and fill them with tension and terror. We are welcomed into the short movie by a medium shot which is later followed by a low angle shot of these 3 teenagers walking home from what the audience might presume was a day at school judging by the uniform worn by them. The low angle shot is used throughout the journey home to focus on the steps being take and give audience a sense of direction.
Once the main character has arrived to his apartment we have a series of extreme close ups and detail after detail of each movement made by the protagonist from locks turning to doors opening, these camera angles help in building tension and suspense and hinting audience that they will need to pay attention to what is going on in front of them.
As the character seats down his glass of juice  in order to log in on Facebook we get a close up of the character's face to give audience a clear vision of face expressions, this could also be a POV from the computer's prospective. A very smart and fascinating technique used shortly after the close up was the one of including a deemed shot of the website page the character is visiting which is placed on top of the close up of the character which gives audience a POV of character.
As the character opens the message n his inbox while creepy noises are coming from the door we get a POV of whatever is approaching the character from a low angle which helps and builds the terror as we are left in suspense and with the urge to know what the thing is as we are not given a shot of it but from its prospective.
The short movie had use of diegetic sound such as footsteps at the very start, locks, door closing typing and etc which were all used to give reality to the movie by matching the actions which were taking place on the other hand the non diegetic sound used in the short movie such as all the sound effects and intonations within them were used with the purpose of creating tension.
The arrangement of scenery was allocated in order to achieve the right theme and give audience a feel and message of what the director and actors were trying to get across such as the location which was a friendly and quiet environment for the characters to be walking home from school and the computer which is an item used by most teenagers. Also the school uniform are a part of the Mise En Scene used to indicate that the teenagers were coming from a place of institution. The juice and cup was a brilliant piece of object which was clearly used to build tension during different times in the short movie.
There are various features included in this short movie which i would use in my short movie such as the point of view shots used which gave the audience a real feel of what is going on and also the use of fade in and fade out transitions in the movie which made it flow smoothly and added in making it appealing to watch.