Analysis 4-Trystin Killer

The Elevator

The protagonist is the man in the opening shot getting into the elevator.
The crisis is the weight limit in the elevator. Every level the elevator goes up more and more overweight people enter the elevator. The main character is anxious about the weight limit.
In the middle of the story, right as they enter the fifth floor another large person is about to enter the elevator causing the weight limit to exceed 2000 pounds. This causes our protagonist to leave the elevator in fear of it breaking. He enters the next elevator full of seemingly averagely built people and is relieved of the carry capacity. However, it turns out they are sick and causes his anxiety to shift from the carrying capacity to getting sick from these people.
The new normal of the story is that the man changed anxiousness from carrying capacity to sickness. This is how the story ends and is the main shift in focus, for the film.

2. Manipulating Light:

The camera uses mostly center shots to keep us in communication with the protagonist’s emotions. This is how we know what he’s probably thinking and feeling. Essential to the story since the focus is of his emotions.
The brightness or darkness isn’t really relevant. We want it to be bright enough to see the characters face and reactions so we know what’s going on in the story. But, the scene where it looks like the elevator is falling, the brightness dims and helps us understand what’s happening.
The color of the frame is basically the same all the way through except for the scene where the elevator is falling. That’s to help clue us into what’s happening.
The overall looks of the images were nice. The protagonist was always in center frame and for a short video, was very effective at showing it’s message through the man’s emotions.

3. Framing:

The aspect ratio is the same throughout the film and doesn’t really do much to add anything visually. The shots barely allowed to show the entirety of the inside of the elevator, so it’s kind of hard to gauge how much weight is actually in there other than remember ing all the people coming in.
The camera stays fairly still in every shot, again, I believe it’s so our entire focus is just on the man and what he’s thinking.
The point and focus of basically every single shot in the film is to show the protagonists emotions, since anxiety is the biggest antagonist.

4. Visual Style:

I think that the approach of doing center shots on the main character were effective and it was very clear to me what he was thinking and feeling over the course of the film. It made it very easy to understand where the film was going and the direction of the story. However, if this video was longer, the similar shots would’ve become annoying.