1. Brief introduction of the film:
Chinese title:
Sleepless in the supermarket
Original title
Cashback
More Chinese title:
Love Backwater.....Hong Kong translation
type
Love / Drama / Comedy Sean Biggerstaff . ....Ben Willis
Emilia Fox .....Sharon Pintey
Shaun Evans .....Sean Higgins
Michael Dixon Michael Dixon .....Barry Brickman
Stewart • Goodwin Stuart Goodwin .....Jenkins
Cherie Nichole .....Shampoo Girl 2
Michelle Ryan Michelle Ryan .....Suzy
Director
Sean Ellis Sean Ellis
Screenwriter
Sean Eh Sean Ellis
Plot introduction:
The film originated from director Xin Ellis in 2004. Ellis's short film of the same name is also his first feature-length film. The short film was nominated for "Best Short Film" at the 78th Academy Awards.
Ben Willis (Sean Biggerstaff), an art school student, begins to lose sleep after being dumped by his girlfriend Suzy. In order to kill the long hours at night, he decided to go to a local supermarket to work the night shift. There, he met various characters. During the boring night shift hours, he used his extremely rich imagination to imagine colleagues and customers as characters in the stories weaved in his mind. He fantasized about a "temporary pause" in time, able to freeze the artistic beauty of the world in order to appreciate the beauty of the world and its characters carefully and calmly. He is particularly sensitive to the beauty of the less talkative female cashier Sharon Pintey (Emilia Fox), who seems to be able to find a solution to Ben's insomnia.
two. Analysis of the film:
The film won the Best Live Action Short Film Award at the 78th Academy Awards in 1006. It is a film developed from the original 18-minute short film. More fast and slow motion clips. The film is full of charming imagination and beautiful sex, coupled with skilled editing techniques, "Sleepless in the Supermarket" tells the audience a conventional love story through time and memory games that do not conform to the new rules. Now, I will give you an analysis of this philosophical film.
＜Film Analysis＞
Part 1
Title:
Music Editing: An opera sung by a soprano that uses sound-reduction processing, but retains the background music more. This contrasts starkly ironic with the roaring woman. And the voice-over of Ben in the first person is real and beautiful.
Screen editing: Use fixed shots to reflect the woman's exaggerated roar, front and back shots can complement the relationship between the two, and then use slow motion to increase the time to deliberately lengthen.
Summary: This atypical picture style and the typical beginning of the music editor are even more alternative, and even this cliché love story will be wrapped in an alternative and unique coat. The film is about a perfect opening, and immediately pulls the audience into Ben's kind of detached world, quiet, mysterious, and endowed with imagination and accumulated drama.
Part
2 Screen Contents (1): An upgraded shot of the lamp from Susie Zelai, and turned into the breakfast on the plate.
Screen editing: From the lights to the breakfast on the plate, a forcibly cut montage is made, giving people a very abrupt feeling and a very exaggerated expressiveness. Make the picture very tense.
Music Clip: The picture was still in the muted state of the high-pitched soprano, and immediately turned to the reality of only ambient sound, the speed was fast and sudden.
Lenses: They are all hard-wired with close-up shots of objects.
Screen content (2): Sean says, "How did Steve Jenkins get her number" and immediately cuts to the scene of Ben's girlfriend Suzy exchanging phones at the party.
Screen Editing: After Sean asks the question, Ben's voiceover begins to answer.
Screen editing: In this space where Sean and Ben are talking again, because of Sean's words, the camera immediately cuts to the screen of Susie and another man exchanging phone calls, and then turns back. And there is an inevitable causal relationship between these three pictures. So it can also be classified as a narrative montage.
Function - Narrative montage is used here, which can tell the audience the causal relationship of things well, which is not conventional, and does not waste any shot.
Screen content (3): Ben: "Sean's war against women makes people think deeply". The words fell, and the scene turned to Ben and all the women.
Screen Editing: Here we use the montage of wanting to die, with so many scenes of Sean being beaten and splashed by women, the director position shows a problem, Sean is also a loser in the face of women, or even worse. Ben.
Screen content (4): Ben draws beautiful women in class.
Screen editing: Using a telephoto lens that blurs the foreground, the fat model is blurred, and the protagonist occupies 1/2. Ben is on the left side of the foreground and the beauty is on the right side of the next head frame, which can also be called another Similar montage.
Screen content (5): Ben listens to the sound of the person next door making love.
Sound editing: The sound of making love and the picture of ben himself are a kind of separation of sound and picture, while the voiceover of ben outside the picture forms the form of two spaces.
Contents of the picture (6): Ben's imagined appearance of Susie is combined with the drawing of the eyes in reality.
Screen editing: The picture of Ben looking at the eyes and Susie's picture are grouped together to imply Ben's current mood, as if it implies that the eyes belong to Susie, and how much Ben misses Susie at this time. This is a metaphorical montage.
Audio clip: still Ben's voice-over and Susie's muted footage
Screen content (7): After Ben heard Susie hang up, two people appeared in the lower right corner of the screen and dragged a man dressed in a crocodile into the house, towards the something in the mouth.
Using a metaphorical montage to express Ben's mentality after being closed by Susie, he is very depressed and heartbroken.
Screen content (8): Ben starts to move, and all the furnishings in the house are upside down.
Shot: Use a long shot to stretch Ben's movement from the phone booth to the bed. Everything is Ben's imagination, very unconventional, I think this long shot was made with "slow rewind" editing, the action may be Ben "getting up from the bed", but when editing, the action is reversed and then come back to form such an effect.
Screen content (9): Ben burns the photo with Susie.
Screen editing: After a fire broke out on the screen, the next shot is the photo as it was before (using special effects). It can be seen that this is also Ben's imagination.
Screen content: Use the editing team to form a quick shot of several groups of people coming and going, cars coming and going, and time flies.
Part 3
Screen Content (1): The camera draws an arc from the ceiling of the supermarket and falls, and continues to move forward. I think it's a relatively new long shot. And when shooting the ceiling, a wide-angle lens is used to distort the picture, which means exaggeration and expansion, which makes people feel dizzy. The lens is special.
Screen content (2): Ben listens to the new boss of the supermarket.
Sound editing: Same as at the beginning, after the muting process, only Ben's voice-over can be heard, and the ambient sound is turned off. Everything is reflected here for Ben's self-imagination, and Ben's thoughts go elsewhere.
Screen content (3): Ben imagines a woman as a deer, and then converts it from a woman to a deer, and this editing method is a similar montage, which is intended for Ben's imagination. The woman and the deer are likened together, and the body shape and movement are like this. elegance and frivolity.
Screen content (4): Barry appears on a scooter, and then goes to a computer video.
Sound editing: Barry is on a scooter, and the sound-absorbing voice-over is a piece of classical symphony music.
Screen editing: The computer video of Barry's pulley action at this time is put together as a narrative montage, and it is a set of causal relationships, adding time to why Barry was on a scooter, because he was injured in extreme sports cycling. But this time the effect is grotesquely funny. This cut is amazing.
Screen content (5): A: Ben's degraded footage on the video recorder, people passing by him - Barry holding milk and trying to throw it from Bart - to fast walking customers - Barry and Bart - walking customers - —Ben — Barry Bart — Boss’ bragging to Sharon — Clock. (Several scenes alternate) - Mosquito is electrocuted - Clock stops.
Summary: The sound disappeared, everything stopped. The heavy and slow beat of the second hand in this clip completely broke everything in the shot.
B: All the scenes stop taking long shots (in Ben's imagination). The music is soothing and melodious.
Screen Editing: These sets of shots form a cumulative montage, switching from one scene to the next, ending with a fixed shot of mosquitoes and clocks stopping. to end this masterpiece. The fixed shot acts as a full stop for the cumulative montage in front.
Screen content (6): From Ben's one to Ben's childhood memories.
Screen Editing: A clip formed by a family's speed and freeze-frame images, returning to the memories of childhood, with a natural transition without leaving any traces.
Screen content (7): from memory -> imagination. When undressing a presumptuous young woman in a supermarket, everything freezes, and Ben, who travels through it, observes them with his unique perspective and freezes this moment on his drawing board forever. In all kinds of situations, the naked women under the stage of movement and stillness release the beauty.
Screen Editing: Here is a small climax of the whole film. The big shot of the meal is used to hit between the naked girl and Ben, and the music runs through it. The slow shots cut in and overlap each other from all angles. With music, the rhythm and music are very clear and very clear. Match, the lens and the picture merge. It not only reflects the beauty of the protagonists, but also enhances the overall beauty of the picture.
Part4:
Screen content (1): Memories with Sean, freeze Sean, Ben looks back, and the camera moves from the bed to the bed in the next scene. The oranges that fell in the hands of transfer Sean.
Screen content (2): The scene of a group of children queuing to watch Natalie was immediately transferred to the people queuing in the supermarket, using the people lining up to connect.
Screen content (3): Ben heard that Bart was going on a date with Sharon, walked in the corridor and then turned to the scene of watching TV as a child, and Ben walked through this scene, using special effects shots.
Summarize these three editing techniques: These three shots have the same purpose, and the editing transitions are so natural that they can no longer be natural, and people have to be amazed. This stimulates the use of such whimsical ideas, and it feels like a sudden opening. Beautiful picture, natural expression.
Part
5 Screen content (1): In this game,
Ben freezes the screen and moves it to the rest room, from the ceiling to the ground.
Screen editing: give Ben a medium shot -> close shot -> a quick reverse shot, the speed of the shot is fast -> another Ben's upside-down shot, the sound and picture are in the same position.
Sound Editing: A spooky music with spooky sound effects that gradually gets louder to a loud bang.
Screen content (2): Ben imagines Sharon as a dancer dancing pole dancing.
Screen Editing: Everything is his imagination, using the crew's fast and slow shots to slowly cut into it, which is compatible with the sexy and feminine beauty of women.
Screen content (3): Ben draws Sharon.
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