'LOOP' Analysis

Camera: extreme close ups, varied focus', low angles

Editing: quick straight cuts throughout 

Sound: constant beeping, extreme thud and mug dropping, over emphasised slipping 

Mise-en-scene: casual pyjamas, set in an upmarket house 

This very simple short film starts to play around with the whole 'looping' or 'inception-esque' idea. The opens with an extreme close up of blood trickling down a table. The focus of the shot has a very interesting depth of field, with the foreground in focus, and the background in soft focus. Dubbed over the footage is is a constant loop of a phone beeping. It then cuts to another extreme close up of a mans face lying down in the blood, with the camera shaking as the man comes around and begins to get up, connoting that the man is dazed and confused. The setting of the film is then established through a long shot, revealing that the man (dressed in his pyjamas), is in a house or apartment. The phone noise continues until a close up shot, this time with the foreground in soft focus and the background in focus, of the phone being placed back into its holdall, cuts off the noise. A low angle shot looking up at the man reveals his confusion through his facial expressions. By making him appear really large on the screen, it asserts the fact that he is the main character. The film is silent for until the harsh sound of a mug breaking initiates the most important part of the film. The edge of the coffee table has been in focus for a few shots, connoting its importance, and the extremely fast cut between the man slipping and banging his head, accompanied by the deep thud, emulate his painful death, thus starting the loop over again.