Analysis - Over

Over -https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2016/04/16/over/

'Join Threlfall's unusual film 'Over' uses reverse chronological storytelling to reveal the incidents that caused a crime scene in a quiet neighbourhood. A leisurely-paced short with an overwhelming powerful and surprising resolution.'

Created in 2015, 'Over' is a winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Palm Springs.

The genre of this film is listed as an experimental film.

These are the conventions of an experimental film;

They are set out to be nonconformist

To challenge the orthodox ideas

Various Styles

Minimum Language

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Personally I found the film a bit slow paced for the first six minutes all you see are a range of; long shots, medium shots of a quite suburban street full of middle class cars and homes. The occasional low angle cutaway close up of objects that act as action codes (Bathes) foreshadowing what may have happened breaks these shots up and adds some intrigue. 

After the film reaches the 6 minute mark something actually starts to happen, CGI and SFX is used to show a male body fall out of the sky, hit a car making the alarm go off before hitting the road. The 
the director plays around with time to show what happened before the body fell. 


Its shown in a reverse chronological order which i find interesting as it depicts the crime scene before the murder has happened making the audience intrigued. In our group film today, we will try use this in our film. I don't think we will put it all in reverse chronicle order but i like the idea of it not in complete order. 

In this short film, there is very minimal speech. There is however a lot of dietetic natural sounds like the wind blowing and the birds chirping. There isn't any non-diegetic music or anything which gives it the tense feeling. It also brings suspense.

The editing was very simple. It would jump cut back in time to the same scene. I like this as the simplicity is very powerful and effective. In this film, there aren't any main characters.