Video analysing

Writers block
By Tom Gran and Martin Woolley (Spin kick Bros)
Flash animation

Source : http://www.shortoftheweek.com/2014/04/17/writers-block/

Byline : A prison for criminally poor writers, a gang of cons get ahold of a script for their own lives, trying to write a way of escape  on a type writer.

Theme: Crime…

Structure: A series of events. A man would type, not long later the event he typed would happen.


Editing techniques: there were a few close ups getting the really gruesome visuals of the inmates. There was a lot of text sticking to the script writing in the storyline. When It didn't show the words being typed in close ups, it had dialogue that was in sync with what was happening.

It would show close ups of what was typed like a play script and in the picture below, in a wide shot, it shows whats happening as well as capturing the inmates watching and realising what they've discovered- a script of their lives.

In the picture below, its a close up of a writer trying to type their escape.

In the picture bellow is shows text, which only last for barely a second and the letters are moving so it's hard to see, but it reads " exit prison yard"

This to me gives a comic book feeling to it, like all of a sudden it's become an action comic, with the bold red colours, with words over lapping.

Then like a switch being flipped as you read the last line in the picture above, a close up shows whats happening in the picture below, which is shown in a close up of the inmates. 

Theres a chase between the writer and the inmates and the writer uses the type writer to create traps to slow the inmates down. Theres over lapping words in shorts, in the one below the words are reversed but readable, and what looks like under the words, is the inmates realising that they're being shot at.

 

In the end the writer gets away, and theres a mid shot of him just outside of the prison gates in a clean pressed suit, making him look like the winner in this whole scenario, emphasised by a close up of the last remaining inmate as the doors just in his face and he realises he won't ever escape.

  

Close up of the script with the Film makers names crossed out and the type writers name is replaced.