SUIT CASE FRANCES

Suitcase - Horror Short Film from Farhan Aiman on Vimeo.

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The shots starts off as black screen then suddenly the title 'SUITCASE' fades on screen written in a demonic way as if someone has written it themselves. 












We are introduced to our character through an establishing shot and the diegetic foley sound of something being dragged along a hard wooden floor, perhaps a suitcase. The setting which appears to be a mans bedroom has low key lighting which gives the impression that this a horror/thriller movie. The next shot is a MS of our protagonist, he has black long hair and is wearing a white and green patterned vest top (costume). The MS shot shows him drinking out of a mug (prop). The diegetic tapping noise carried on as he drinks his drink and then a shallow depth of field shows a shadow figure walking passed an air vent in his door. The diegetic sound of  someone walking past the door is all we hear and a demonic off screen crackling sound as this event takes place. A MS of the protagonist shows his facial expression is looking confused as he looks over at the door where the shadow just walked past. We are shown the male character walking over to the door by a LS, throughout these events the diegetic tapping sound is still present.

 The lighting of the room has a blue filter with a vignette edge to it and as he opens the door of the cupboard the camera shot then cuts to a MS of the protagonist walking into the room that the sound is coming from. A LS shows us an empty suitcase (prop) which the character has found open in his cupboard and a low angle MS shows the protagonist with a frustrated facial expression and then there is a diegetic sound of him sighing. He then leans towards the suitcase with an open body positioning and a LS shows our protagonist zipping the suitcase up, the only sound we hear is the diegetic sound of the zip, The suitcase (prop) is brown and looks like it comes from the 1950's. A LS shows the male character walking out of the cupboard back into the bedroom and the lighting is at a much lower level which gives us the impression that something bad is going to happen. This shot then cuts to a MS of the character and then we hear the contrapuntal diegetic sound of the suitcase unzipping just as we see the character shut the door, a CU of his facial expressions shows that he is frightened by this sound. As he walks over to the door the camera quickly cuts to a MS of he protagonist opening the door, a hand held camera shows the diegetic parallel sound of him sighing and with an irritated facial expression on his face he walks back over to the now unzipped suitcase. A low angle tracking MS from the edge of the sofa shows our protagonist dragging the suitcase out of the cupboard, his body language and the way he is dragging it suggests that their is something in the suitcase.

 The scene then cuts to a MS of our character clearing objects of his desk, an xbox controller, a mug and a laptop (props), the audience gets the impression that he is going to put the suitcase onto this desk and maybe inspect it. This same MS shows the male character walking out of the shot to get the suitcase and then he walks back into the shot with the suitcase. The scene then cuts to a CU of our protagonist's hands clasping the edge of the suitcase as if he is ready to open it, he runs his hands across the edge of the suitcase then bangs the top of it and the audience are given the impression that he is hesitant to open it.

 The only sound we hear is the parallel diegetic sound of the rattle as he undoes the buckle on the side of the case. A light shines on the characters hands as is a spot light on the floor shining up at him. A MS with a handheld camera shows him finally undoing the suitcase and again we have the diegetic sound of it unzipping, he does this whilst having an intrigued facial expression. We hear the diegetic sound of him sighing and as he begins to open up the case a non-diegetic music sound track begins to play and a shallow depth of field shows the cupboard door slamming as he opens the suitcase, as the door shuts their is a diegetic loud bang of the door. It then it then cuts to  low angle CU of the male character looking over at the door with a horrified facial expression.  The scene then cuts back to a CU from inside the suit case and as our protagonist look back over the suitcase there is a loud diegetic scream from inside the case and a black hand reaches from the case and pulls him inside. The scene then fades to black.

Representation

I feel that masculinity is represented in this short film however in a negative way. From the plot we can see that our protagonist lives alone however when he discovers this demonic suitcase his masculinity and bravery is questioned because he gets scared and then in the end get pulled into the suitcase.

Narrative

We dont get much about the story from this short film but the plot suggests that our character is of middle class because he has such technologies like an xbox and laptop and could possibly student. This film has a linear structure as it is told in chronological order.

Genre

The genre of 'SUITCASE' is a horror as it has elements that suggests this such as the lighting used, lack of dialogue and the music choice.