2nd Textual Analysis

For my second textual analysis I will be analysing the short film from future shots called Black Hole. This amazing shot film was directed by Phil Sampson and Olly Williams, The short film Black hole’s is more like a drama and mysterious film in genre. This short film features some generic conventions which allow the audience to relate and understand the concept of the film, generic conventions such as a typical sleep-deprived man working in an office whom is very tired and therefore doesn’t know what his doing. In my opinion the man is a works a lot and therefore very disturbed and stress, audience in this situation can relate to the film. This short film has won a few awards such as the Virgin Media Competition. After some research I was unsuccessful in finding who funded this short film. The target audience was directly aimed at all age group and social status from C to D as the can relate to the stress in working. It was also aimed at film buffs and a niche audience as not many people watch short films. As I was looking through some short film on YouTube.

The story line of the short film is a about a depressed and sleep-deprived drained from working too much, but his still trying to stay up and work. As his working he accidentally printed out a paper with a black circle in the middle. Magically, when he puts his hand into the black dot on the paper it turns into a black hole you could put your hands through it. Example if you stick the paper with the black hole on the wall and stick your hands in it, your hands will go through the wall. The man experiments with the paper until the end he tries to break into a safe with money in it and ended up locked in the safe.

The film starts with the title black hole in a white colour text, it then fades out and zooms in to the sleep-deprived and stressed man; this shot shows the emotion on the man’s face. After this shot, the close-up on the man pressing the print button on the printer is shown, this shows the audience his trying to print a document out, but the copy wasn’t coming out. We then see more close-up shots of the man pressing the button again and again and also kicking the printer to print the document out. After this scene a medium shot of a paper with a black hole comes out, the shot is then cut back to the man picking up the paper. After this shot a close-up shot of the man’s face is shown, this shows the audience the reaction he had when he saw the paper with the black hole, long shot of him is shown, showing him opening the printer to check what he actually printed out. After this scene, a medium shot of him drinking water is seen, as he tries to throw the cup into the bin, it falls on the paper he printed out and the cup sinks through the whole. A close-up shot of the man is seen, this shows the audience the reaction and expression on the man’s face, and he then puts his hand to retrieve the cup. After a few medium shots of him putting his hand through the paper, a long shot of him going the vending machine is seen; the scene is then cut back to a medium shot putting his hand through the vending machine with the help of the black hole paper. Series of medium close-ups and medium shot is seen, showing him taking a chocolate bar and eating it. After this scene, we then see a close-up shot of the man’s face to a point of view shot, showing what the man is looking at, as this takes place the door is zoomed in to show the audience what object the man is focussing on. As he opens the door he straight to a safe, series of medium shots but different angles is shown of him sticking the black hole paper on the safe and retrieving money from it. As he takes the money out of the safe he gets carried away and decides to go into the safe. A medium shot of him going into the safe is shown, as he got into the safe, the paper drops on the floor and he his stuck in the safe, the scene is then zoomed out and then fades out to a black background.

This short film is fairly edited an its continuity and flow is excellently done. The sounds in black hole were very basic and amplified, in order to show the audience the realistic aspect of the film, we see this with this when the sound of the printer is amplified.