Closed Doors

Dark threatening music suggests that the
door could hold danger. Equilibrium is
instantly broken.
Camera zooms in suggesting to audience
that were going to see what is inside building
up suspense .This is helped by the dull
lighting round the door and the fact it is
isolated suggesting there is a reason why
the door has been left alone.

Straight cut to the gong sound similar to one heard in
the hunger games builds suspense as it signifies to the
audience that something is about to happen. The
background is most likely dark and plain to create
cohesion with the title as if you can’t see what is
happening on the other side of the door when it is
closed so you are in the dark.

We then see a juxpostion as we see a straight
cut to show the main character on his laptop
at a college or university. This gives the
audience the sense of calm before the storm.
The close up of the guy working on his laptop
gives us the sense that the guy is a hard
working individual as he is typing up school
work in the dark lighting of his room which
conveys to us that it is night time.

We then hear the non-diegetic sound of two individuals
walking down the hallway. This makes the main
protagonist look through his key hole implying that he
is very conscious of what others are talking about as he
clearly thinks that everything is about him. This could
suggest that the main protagonist is very nervous of
others and feels isolated from everyone around him.
The shot through the key hole also helps the audience
understand the location as they see two other students
giving the audience the idea that the short is based at a
college/university.

We then get a straight cut to a close up of
the main protagonist again. This shows the
sad face of the protagonist suggesting he
used to hearing harsh things said about him.
This makes the audience feel sorry for the
main protagonist. However it also makes
the audience worry as it starts them
thinking how much longer is he going to
take it before he snaps.

We then get a tracking shot of the main protagonist
walking towards a photo frame on his desk. We then
see a close up of the photo frame showing an image of
the boy at a young age with his mum. This suggests to
the audience that the teen misses the comfort of his
home and family as they make him feel welcome. This
again makes the audience feel sorry for him and again
wonder what the twist in the film is.

We then hear the equilibrium in the film get
broken. This is done by a loud knocking being
heard on the wall. This suggests to the audience
that something bad is happening next door. We
see this disrupts the teen’s concentration. This
then intrigues the main character as we see him
stare at the wall for a brief amount of time before
deciding to walk up to it. The audience then start
hearing the non-diegetic music of an dramatic
build-up suggesting to the audience that
something bad is about to happen.

We then see the main character go up to
the wall and put his ear to the wall in order
to understand what is going on. We see he
is unable to hear so goes and gets a glass to
put between the wall and his ear in order to
hear what is going on. This again suggests
that the teen has a tendency to get involved
in something he is not supposed to showing
his nosiest nature.

When we see the teen put his ear to the glass we get
a quick flash sequence of images suggesting that a
brutal murder is going on. This makes the audience
jump implying that they in shock from horror. This
same face is shown on the teen suggesting that the
director was trying to make the character more
relatable to the audience in order to make the twist
more hard hitting.

We then see the characters face turn to determination
and we see the teen leave the room and go next door
and knock on the door. As the teen knocks on the door
the camera cuts to a long shot showing the teen
knocking on the door in the distance. This is done to
show the audience the isolation of the teen as there is
nobody else there to possibly help or to hear what is
going on. The darkness emphasises the narrowness of
the corridor giving the audience of a dark and tense
atmosphere

A girl that the teen knows answers the door
and tells the teen that everything is ok.
However the teen yet again has another flash
of images of a brutal murder in his head and
stops the door from closing. This could suggest
he is trying to predict what is actually going to
happen or that he is seeing a flashback to a
murder he couldn’t stop and wants to stop this
one as he possibly feels guilt

The teen finally lets the girl shut the door and starts
to walk away however from another long shot of the
corridor we see the teen stop as he has spotted
something on his shoe. We then see a close up of the
shoe and see a blood stain. This provides a shock
factor to the audience as they realise what he thinks
is going on is true. We then see the teen turn back
and knock on the door more violently this time.

When the door opens we see a guy answers the door he
tells the teen to go away and shoves him away from the
door. We then see a close up of the teen in the corridor
angry. This is accompanied with the sound of a boiling
kettle telling the audience that he has been pushed too far.
This is highlighted when the teen kicks the door into the
other guys face and a fight ensues. The teen then pins the
other guy down and grabs a bottle he then repeatedly hits
the boy with the bottle. During this we repeatedly see a
flashback showing the murderer the teen was seeing. This
suggests to the audience that he is copying what he saw in
the past giving the twist that he has turned into the
murderer.
We then see the teen get hit on the head by the girl. We
then see a brief blackness followed by a close up of the
teen coming to. We see the realisation on the teens face
as he first’s sees the victim’s body followed by realisation
that there was never any blood on this shoe. This makes
the audience feel upset as they know the good side to
them and makes them realise it only takes a small thing
to change someone in to a killer.

We then see the teen run back to the room
and take the photo out of the photo frame in
his room. We see him unfold the photo and a
man is revealed possibly his farther. This
creates a shock factor as the audience realise
that the flashbacks are of his dad. This creates
a very intriguing twist as he has murdered in
the same way as his farther.

After the credits we then see the same zoom in
shot of the door as at the beginning. However
police sirens can be heard suggesting that the
police are going to open the door and are going
to see something they won’t want as the
synopsis for this film is that some doors
shouldn’t be opened.