Short film research: Are you still there? By Rayka Zehtabchi & Sam Davis/Drama

 The short film starts off with a girl in her car singing a song. It goes on for about a minute. She gets to a location outside of a gas station and gets out of her car after turning it off. The title shows and the music fades out. It shows a focus on the steering wheel, with the background blurred. It shows people going in and out to make the time seem like it's going back longer than it actually is. When the girl comes back, the camera shows a close up of her jets going into the ignition. She tries turning her car on but it won’t work. A lady bangs on her window, yelling at her in Chinese and it shows a two-person shot of them screaming back and forth. She calls her mom, but you only see one side of the conversation, however you hear both, so there is a non diegetic sound. There is an overhead shot to show the location. There is also a jump cut when they show her car battery not turning on. The actor calls triple A, but at the word of her dad silence starts. Makes it seem like her and her dad either don’t have a good relationship, or something happened. With the phone call to her mom, the tone and words used showed that her mom was busy but still cared.​ There are also many zoom-ins during the harsh situationships to show the importance of the scene. For example, on her phone call with her mom after hours, it zoomed in on her phone dying. Leaving her alone and stranded, without her mom knowing where she is. This is the second short film I watched. The only thing I didn’t like was how much of it is repeated and dragged on. 

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