Characters : Scott (husband), 911-emergency caller (wife), Emily (victim).
Plot : An emergency caller gets a call from a girl.
Location : Emergency caller station, closet, house
Todorov Theory : Scott and emergency caller get engaged as first act, second act Emily calls, third act serial killer gets revealed to be Scott.
Hermeneutic code : the 911 emergency caller station makes you curious as to whats going to happen next, the call makes you curious as to what the calls about, the use of the dead bodies of the girls makes you interested in the identity of the killer.
Levi strauss : The serial killer is a villain, Emily is the victim.
Twist in the tale : the husband was the serial killer
Narrative structure : linear, flashback, anti-realist, open endings.
Characters : blonde girl, dark haired girl, psychologist
Plot : dark haired girl is following the blonde girl everywhere
Location : house, psycchiatrists office, street
Todorov’s theory : first act : girl is being followed, girl decides to kill dark haired girl to get rid of her, blonde girl realizes shes the hallucination
Hermeneutic code : the opening line makes you curious as to whos following her, the image of the girl makes you curious as to who the identity of the girl is, the fact that shes taking pills makes the viewers even more curious.
Levi strauss : the blonde girl/the dark haired girl, this is flipped at the end when we realize the blonde haired girl was the hallucination all along.
Narrative structure : linear, flashback, anti-realist, closed ending.
Plot : A gay boy is sent to ‘fix’ himself with a prostitute.
Characters : Shawn (boy), Katy (prostitute), Father, Bullies, David (boys crush).
Location : apartment complex, home, car.
TODOROV THEORY : first act : boy is gay, second act : boy is sent to sex worker, third act : boy realizes that its okay to be gay, and comes out to his father.
hermeneutic code : the beginning of the short film has moments where hes getting beaten up by other boys, makes you wonder why this is happening. the fact that his father tells him to ‘hurry up’ means that they are going somewhere, which creates questions that the viewer has to stick around to find of meaning of.
Conflict: father comes to check on them multiple times, tries to kiss the sex worker and is heavily Christian (conflicts with sons sexuality) and wants his son to be ‘fixed’.
Levi strauss : originally we see the father/son as hero/villain, and the twist in the tale is that he does love his son.
Narrative structures : linear, flashback, open ending.
formats : single drama, genre :