The short film I decided to analyse was:
The View by Neil Neenan
The View is a short film about how different people may interpret a view and the different types of activities that can happen in a place such as the view that is used in the short film.
The use of editing in The View is quite interesting, as throughout the short film, hard cuts are frequently used as seen in the images below:
As the short film progresses, we as the audience, see people come and go one after the other to and from the view. The first people being an old couple, where the man asks the women to marry him, these people are then followed by a much younger couple who end up splitting up from each other. The younger man leaves his bottle on the floor which is then picked up by the next person who looks like a working, middle aged male. He then throws his phone as it rings possibly due to simply not wanting to answer it, the phone is then a part of the next persons experience when at the view point. He is a man who is obviously on his stag due, handcuffed to the bench trying to reach the phone when it rings. The final people to visit the view point are people who look to be mother and son simply sitting down and looking at the view.
All of these stories of different people are edited together by flowing one after the other, with possibly items that connect them such as the bottle or the phone. It's almost as though the realistic time period of these different people going to the view point throughout the days has been condensed down into a shorter period that continuously flows from one to the next.
I found this short film on the following website:
BBC Film Network
The link below goes directly to the short film, The View:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/films/p00kvk62
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