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- 2. ReMoved
- 3. ReMoved ReMoved the short film is about a 10-year-old girl who navigates her way through the foster care system, after being removed from her home and separated from her younger brother. She struggles to get along with all her foster parents and shows how much she's been through. Showing the struggle of controlling her behaviour.
- 4. Purpose of the short film. • The purpose of this film gets a message across to the audience to bring light to the harsher reality of subjects of Foster Care and Child Abuse/Neglect. The goal of this short film is that these films would be key learning tool in inspiring and training good foster parents, social workers and many other adults who interact with children in foster care. The people whom created the film encourages everyone within social care to use this film in training. For example they did not charge anyone to watch this film, it was distributed for people to watch for free as their main purpose was to get a message across. • Below is a screenshot from their website where it encourages people to download as a training tool for free. Although the production of the film cost a lot of money they did not use it at all for a profit making short film.
- 5. Conventions of the film. • Normal conventions: • Character: The main character in this film is a young girl whom is moved in to the foster care system. This young girl has a brother whom only appears a maximum of three times and is a stock character. numerous characters appear which is against the normal conventions of a short film but they were only shown for a few seconds. Therefore not costing the production team much money. There is a maximum of 6 stock characters which still isn't very much therefore agreeing with the convention of short films not having many characters. The stock characters life do not go in to depth and the audience know near to nothing about them. • Setting: The setting of the short story was mainly based in communal places in which are free or houses which can be easily accessible by anyone. These places are cheap cost and everyday places.which agrees with the conventions of short films using simple or low cost settings. • Star System: The star system within this short film is near to none, they used very unknown actors in this short film and therefore did not get the advertisement of the film or the fan base from any stars within the film.
- 6. Structural conventions • Titles: There is one title which is the name of the film at the begginig, this is after a short introduction and shows the main character alone. The normal convention for a short film is to have the title at the beginning of the short film like it is for films as well. • Length: The duration of a short film is normally between 3-20 minutes, whereas this short film lasts approximately 12 minutes in which is within the normal conventions of a short film • Plot: The conventional plot of a short film is a simple plot, it hasn't got many characters and it only really has one situations instead of many. As the time period is shorter in order to explain the plot. This short film has a simple plot in which is the girl going in to social care, being separated from her brother and the struggle in finding the right foster carer for her.
- 7. Narrative Structure • The Narrative structure for the short film ReMoved is set over a long period of time it starts at her house showing domestic violence between her parents and her dealing with being beaten and taking care of her little brother. When social services get involved she is split up from her brother. it jumps cuts to different foster parents houses in which are happening one after the after, through the houses she’s has flash backs to certain moments with her original parents and the pain she went through with them. There is a constant voice over to narrate the short film, which just says how the little girl feels. She ends up at a foster home she's starts to adjust to, she is then happy at the end when her brother is reunited with her.
- 8. • Camera: The camera movements in this short film represent and show the audience much of the pain the little girl goes through without having to say words. To start the short film off, There is a close up of the girls face, there is no face expression, just the wind moving her hair, her face is shown to look distressed, pale and tired looking. This instantly shows the audience that the girl is the main character. Moving on from the first scene the camera instantly show the audience the meaning of this short film as their is a range of mid shots and long shots, using the shot reverse shot to show the girl taking care of her little brother and folding clothes which is stereotypically the mothers role and then switching to a long shot of the father abusing the mother. Through the whole short film there is mainly just close and mid shots of the main character. This is because they wanted to show the affect the pain had on the little girl and the expressions and actions it pushed her to do.
- 9. • Lighting: The whole of this short film is natural light as it is all set during the day, because of it being a short film they probably didn't have the money to create different lighting but it still made a natural effect on the short film. • Sound: To start the short film it is non diegetic sounds of waves crashing to open, it then breaks through to a diegetic voice over which creates a sound bridge over the whole of the 12 minutes which short breaks. There is music in which represents sadness , slow, low beat and quiet music through some bits to create an atmosphere of pain. through the final seconds of the short film diegetic music starts below a voice over in which gives an atmosphere of happiness as she is reunited with her brother. • Editing: The editing is very simple, it is mostly just cuts to each shot. However they do use quite a few jump cuts to jump from different periods in time. To each foster house. They use these simple techniques. they do use a few shot reverse shots to show the facial expression of the main character and her going through a tough time.