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KTA 1: Short Film Conventions and Analysis of Short Films

Levi Strauss - binary opposition  Todorov - equilibrium disruption equilibrium Propp - Character roles Barthes - enigma code The Ellington Kid (2012). Directed by Dan Sully In the Ellington kid it is structured in a way so that the the narrator is telling a story to someone but the scenes are acted out by different people as he is saying it. At the end of this short film the revelation is that the chef is the same person that killed them in the story even though the narrator told his friend that the story was made up. There are scenes in the short film that are set in the present and as he tells the story it changes between the  present day and the past. There are also not really too much music so that you can hear all of the sound that they would be hearing which also makes it far more intense as you can hear the sounds that they would be hearing which makes it also feel far more real. The editing for this short film is mostly continuity editing as it all ...