Camera: low angle shots, varied focus, soft focus
Editing: quick straight cuts
Sound: Parallel, non-diegetic music, diegetic chains
Mise-en-scene: Tribal/war paint make up, low key lighting, at the end high key (resolved)
'Sebastian's Voodoo' is an animated short, focusing on the sacrifice made for your friends. The film starts with the titles in a weathered orange/brown font, fading in over a plain black screen. The music is very tribal and very African, yet it still manages to have a macabre vibe.
The majority of the film is shot in low key lighting, connoting the eerie, dangerous feel that the room has. The room in question is very dark and dirty and creepy. The fact that the only human in the film is in a deep, dark shadow casts a doubt over him having any positive traits. Only exposing his hand and arm emphasises the ghoulish trait to the man. The fast paced cutting adds drama to the piece as it connotes the quick decisions that the doll has to make on the spot, making the audience feel sympathy for the small animated doll as he must choose between his own life or all the other voodoo dolls
At the end of the film, when the villain has been killed, the lighting changes. It switches to high key lighting which connotes that the evil has been removed from the room and everyone is now free. Along with this, the music becomes a lot slower and eloquent.
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