Big Society Analysis

Big society is a short film thats genre is to be a mockumentary, and have comedy mixed with it. The short film has a very well thought out layout by this I mean the way it was edited to show some clips before the others. The film shows the man cooking in his house to start off which is a very traditional   activity to do making the man seem peaceful and not someone you would expect for the part this is what adds to the comedic value of the short film. Going against the hegemonic views as they show him then fighting people in the public its very unexpected and totally changes the views on the man but as soon as it goes back again to the clip inside the house cooking it will change again. In a comedy short film this style is very conventional as it makes the users laugh as they are binary opposites and unexpected from the audience.

A hand held camera had been used in the film as a technique to show stress and that it was a dangerous environment. The use of hand held cameras is also a conventional way to record a film as short films dont have big budgets and this effect is very cheap to do as it can be done with only one camera without it being on a tri-pod. Rule of thirds is also being used when in the main actor or the protagonist, he has not been placed in the center of the shot but to the right hand side this is conventional as its very unusual for a film to have a person in the center of the screen. A few POV shots have been used throughout the short film also to show certain objects such as the cake progressing through its cooking stages and for items like the taser. By the showing of the cake again and again throughout the film it also could be representing the protagonist how he is growing and becoming harsher and harsher. The editing also backs up this idea as the clips get shorter and shorter so it speeds up the pace of the film, this is shown from clip lengths such as the lengths of the clips get shorter and also more violent towards the end.

The film maker made the short film interesting through  camera shots and editing as what was shown in the camera shots through mise-en-scene. For example the cake that was being shown added more to the story as it showed that the man liked to cook as well as be violent to people that litter.

The short films narrative is to be a comedic film about people who litter and how the protagonist fights against them to help fix the litter problem, but the way in which he does it would not be seen as right in real life this and the use of binary opposition with the protagonist is what really makes the mockumentary funny. This interests the audience in the short film through the use of comedy this is done in a number of different mockumentarys there for this short film follows convention.