Short Film Research
The Ellington Kid Dan Sully uses mise-en-scene throughout the short film, in order to set up the world the characters exist in, portraying an accurate South London area. Whilst also using it to hint towards the violent end of the story, for example the sharpening of the knives, as well as the setting up of the burger. As well as this, Sully uses sound in a compelling way, as the story builds up, and the mise-en-scene becomes more and more violent, the sound mirrors this, gradually leading to a crescendo, building the tension. This use of sound, along side the threat created from the mise-en-scene creates an extremely convincing build up, leading to the eventual moment of bathos, in which we learn the story was all a joke. Sully then brings the same mise-en-scene of sharpening knives, as seen as the first shot, for the last shot, in a way book ending the film, posing the watchers to begin to question the truth. This short film uses an interesting form of narrative, a...