8. Short Film Analysis - Post-Love It

Post-It Love

Genre

The genre is obviously romance due to them showing their feelings for each other using post-it notes. Written love letters is an old fashioned stereotypical way to show how you feel in the past, however throughout the years its moved much more to emails/texts/and instant messengers. This short film shows a romantic way of showing how you feel towards someone. By using post-it notes to make pictures showing their feelings, they go backwards and forwards making them for each other. However, the film is silent, so it just uses this technique to portray the romantic genre. I think the audience would look at this film and automatically know it's based on a romantic genre, fitting to the factors of the genre of a male and woman falling in love for each other. It differentiates to the genre however by using the factor of no words so it's solely focusing on the actions of the people.

Narrative

The story develops as the video continues to play, for example, it's linear as it starts as they just meet at work and they catch each others eyes and the establishing shot shows the two of them doing twin actions. The film is open-ended however, as although the ending shows him making a picture of them two together in a romantic way, the last shot is a close up of the girl. Although it finishes this way, you aren't actually sure as an audience if they do get together, you just assume they do which may not be what happens. Ellipsis is used as the process occurs over a matter of days as they have different clothing on in different parts of the film, this shows the time difference and how the relationship establishes throughout a period of time. The music helps to establish the relationship also due to their being no dialogue so it helps to establish it, along with post-it notes.

Characters

Both the characters seem like the quiet type of people that get on with their job and go, however, it's hard to tell their personalities due to the fact the dialouge is silent. They both seem like the 'cute' in the corner type that people usually take advantage of and don't recognise what they do for people. I think they're both stereotypes of the genre because making pictures with post-it notes would usually be seen as a 'cute' thing to do, matching the genre. The way they are portrayed fits in with the genre, for example, the establishing shot where they're doing matching actions and represented in this way. The male is represented in a thoughtful, sweet way, to fit in with the genre.

Technical

There is no dialogue throughout the film, although there is music which fills the gap. This music represents the words they're not saying, due to it establishing the happy, romantic and upbeat emotions, this forms the narrative. The establishing shot is a good thing to represent the genre at the beginning because they're doing matching actions you can already assume that it's a romantic film and that they are the two main characters. By finishing with a long shot of the main big picture of the man and women the man's made it makes you assume that they get together or there's an element of romance - although, it is still open ended.