DepicT!™ Video Analysis

DepicT! Analysis

Mise-en-scene: A man (and his dog) in his house, there are no other people in the film. All of the colours are very earthy and natural, this may be to do with his love for digging-stuff-up. He (and his dog) then go metal-detecting, there are shots of him getting out of his car with his gear, then walking around a huge green field. Then there are lots of shots of the atifacts that he has dug up and then to finish it ends on the final bit of his interview and then a shot of him standing outside his house with his metal detector and his doggy.

Camera: The camera is very high-quality, all the colours are very rich, which is aestically pleasing to the eye. Also, a lot of shadows are in some of the shots, which makes the lights and darks in the film contrast. I don't think that this is anything metaphorical.

Editing + Continuity: During the film, I would say, that there are a surprising amount of shots, it's very cut-heavy, which makes the pacing of the film really great. It gets a lot of infomation about his life in metal-detecting in a very short amount of time.

Sound: Lots of dialogue. All monologue. No one else speaks other than him (which helps with the identification of his character). There is good use of the metal-detector noise (beep) which acts as a sound effect during a montage of the artifacts that he has obtained.

Narrative: There isn't really a full narrative in this film as it is mainly just him giving a bit of infomation about himself and his love for metal-detecting, BUT he does tell stories about what he would do when he was a young boy and gives a picture of himself with his first ever detector. These, I guess, count as narrative within the film.

Identification: The film is very good at making the viewer identify with the 'protagonist'. One way it does this is by giving nearly all the on screen-time to him. Also his voice is heard throughout the whole thing which also helps. Smaller things that help a lot with identification with the character is that the film has a reaction shot of himself laughing at the list of strange things he has found, he laughs at "cannonball". The way this is done is that the voice-over from the shot before goes over another shot of him laughing, you don't actually hear the laugh but you can tell from his face that he is.

Suspense: There is not really any suspense used OR needed in this film as it is a mini-documentary about a man who is a metal-detectorist.