The Short starts with empathising shot of the main character little girl looking at the adults in the film, she looks kind of sad but also very scared at the same time. The focus is on the little girl but you can see an abusive man hurting what we can only assume is her mother and is cleverly put as the ‘centre-back story’ of the shot but it really is the back story to the whole film, violence. This makes the girl seem very vulnerable to the audience from her Mums Violent Boyfriend.

When she runs into the garden the story unfolds of the little girl in digging in the garden and finds her brothers body buried, and then there is a clear scene that is showing the girl is delusional but more likely fantasising like any other child, there is a birds-eye view shot of the brother once he has been fully dug up and you can he his dirty but very pale skin as he lay there dead, giving the audience a clear effect of what I actually happening within the film, the Ariel shot shows the reality of the situation whereas when we go to eye-level with the little girl it is what is going on in her imagination. Although this is revealed fairly early on in the film that he has been killed by the mother’s partner; it is a great way of getting the audience to watch the rest of the film to see where it was going.

The ending to the film is very successful, with the great camerawork of the close up and focus pulls, along with the lighting being fairly dark allows the blue lights of the police arriving even better to see on a screen. When the police officer come into the garden and finds the little girl standing above the dead body, the officer looks down at the hole in the ground and is shocked to see a body, the expression she pulls shows that the whole time the girl has been talking to her brother it has been her imagination. Although this completely changes the mood of the film to very serious and a deeper meaning, the little girl is perceived in a very positive way.

What I have taken from this film is the lighting and the colours, they have taught me a lot about setting a tone using the correct lighting. It is very important to get that right because subconsciously that is how the audience take things in sometimes. Also I love how the audience is basically forced to empathy with the little girl only, this is very clever and or group will be looking to write it in this kind of way.