Short Film Analysis: Unkle 'The Answer'

The opening if this short film shows an establishing shot of the sun setting over a beautiful landscape. The shot changes to show waves pouring over a beach, and then again to show a silheutte of a man stretching. Many scenes are shown like this one, which suggests that the two different forces- man and nature. All of these shots are in slow motion, which gives the impression that an event is building up. The sounds which can be heard are the sounds of waves crashing, mixed with  gentle music playing overhead. A mid shot is used of people diving under water, which is shot in slow motion. This allows the audience to see every piece of detail, which represents how beauitful nature really is. The audience then see numerous shots of people doing different activities. As we see this, up-beat, ambitious music plays overhead. The use of colour is pure: the mountains are white and are covered with snow, and the sea is a deep blue. This colours do not appear to be edited, which shows that man-kind does not need tricks to make the world appear more inviting than it already is. There is then a shot of a three men, and a close up is used. An arc shot is used, which allows the audience to see that the next few shots will be related to them. However, directly after this, a long shot is used, which depicts numerous people standing in the sea. This reveals that human kind is perhaps insiginificant. The fact that the whole of the short film is in slow motion shows us that the director wanted use to take notice of every single detail of each shot- whether that be the emotions on the men's faces, the snow being sprayed, or the droplets of water on their skin.