case study 1 TELL
Tell is a 2012 short psychological horror film written, directed, and edited by Ryan Connolly.
Taylor argues with his girlfriend Jenny before taking a hammer from his car and murdering her. He then wraps her body in a sheet, takes her upstairs, and hides her in his attic. He then phones Ray and informs him of the crime. Referencing an earlier conversation in which a drunken Ray had suggested murdering Jenny, Taylor tries to convince him to help cover up the crime. Ray declines, leaving Taylor to deal with the consequences alone.He begins to clean the blood from the kitchen floor, and hears something moving in the attic. He goes to investigate, and hears Jenny screaming. Whilst investigating, he finds blood dripping from the loft hatch, and goes up to investigate, where he finds the body as he left it. As he climbs back down the ladder, he slips on the blood, and is knocked unconscious.On regaining consciousness, Taylor finds blood on his forehead, and looks up into the still-open attic, where he sees a hallucination of Jenny looking down at him. He goes to the bathroom and cleans the blood from his hands, head, and clothes, and finishes cleaning the kitchen. Terra , Jenny's friend, arrives, and finds that Jenny is missing. Taylor tells her that she has walked out, and left her phone. Fearing that Terra knows of the murder, he arms himself with a kitchen knife, but she leaves before he attacks her.Whilst disposing of the blood-stained towels used to clean the kitchen, Taylor takes a saw from his garage, and takes Jenny's body into the bathroom. Once he has put the body in the bath, Taylor closes Jenny's eyes, and prepares to cut her arm off. However, he is interrupted at the last moment by the shower curtain moving. He goes to investigate, and looks back to find Jenny's eyes now open again. The curtain moves again, and Taylor jumps back, hits the light switch, and falls to ground. The curtain is then pulled back, and a shadowed figure steps out from behind it. Taylor runs from the bathroom, and then the house. Whilst outside, a police car pulls up, and Taylor returns to the house.When Police Officer Diaz knocks on the door, Taylor tries to stop her from entering the house. When she does, she begins to search the ground floor and, on finding nothing, goes to search upstairs. Taylor again attempts to convince her that there is no issue, and is forced to remain downstairs whilst Diaz searches the upper floor. Diaz does not enter the bathroom, and therefore does not discover Jenny's body, but Taylor stabs her in the neck as she turns to leave. The two struggle silently, with Taylor pushing Diaz's gun down into its holster to protect himself. He is interrupted by an apparition of Jenny standing at the door, giving Diaz time to draw her weapon and shoot him. The two separate, and fall against opposite sides of the room, where they sit against the walls, dying.
In the short film tell it used many different camera shots such as pan,over the shoulder,birds eye views , wide ,voyeuristic, close up and off camera violence. throughout the film tension was built up using flashbacks , sound effects, music, lighting and shots.with shots like enigma and action code it gave a sense of suspense as there was an uncertainty of what will happen next which gave the audience a sense of suspense.
Taylor argues with his girlfriend Jenny before taking a hammer from his car and murdering her. He then wraps her body in a sheet, takes her upstairs, and hides her in his attic. He then phones Ray and informs him of the crime. Referencing an earlier conversation in which a drunken Ray had suggested murdering Jenny, Taylor tries to convince him to help cover up the crime. Ray declines, leaving Taylor to deal with the consequences alone.He begins to clean the blood from the kitchen floor, and hears something moving in the attic. He goes to investigate, and hears Jenny screaming. Whilst investigating, he finds blood dripping from the loft hatch, and goes up to investigate, where he finds the body as he left it. As he climbs back down the ladder, he slips on the blood, and is knocked unconscious.On regaining consciousness, Taylor finds blood on his forehead, and looks up into the still-open attic, where he sees a hallucination of Jenny looking down at him. He goes to the bathroom and cleans the blood from his hands, head, and clothes, and finishes cleaning the kitchen. Terra , Jenny's friend, arrives, and finds that Jenny is missing. Taylor tells her that she has walked out, and left her phone. Fearing that Terra knows of the murder, he arms himself with a kitchen knife, but she leaves before he attacks her.Whilst disposing of the blood-stained towels used to clean the kitchen, Taylor takes a saw from his garage, and takes Jenny's body into the bathroom. Once he has put the body in the bath, Taylor closes Jenny's eyes, and prepares to cut her arm off. However, he is interrupted at the last moment by the shower curtain moving. He goes to investigate, and looks back to find Jenny's eyes now open again. The curtain moves again, and Taylor jumps back, hits the light switch, and falls to ground. The curtain is then pulled back, and a shadowed figure steps out from behind it. Taylor runs from the bathroom, and then the house. Whilst outside, a police car pulls up, and Taylor returns to the house.When Police Officer Diaz knocks on the door, Taylor tries to stop her from entering the house. When she does, she begins to search the ground floor and, on finding nothing, goes to search upstairs. Taylor again attempts to convince her that there is no issue, and is forced to remain downstairs whilst Diaz searches the upper floor. Diaz does not enter the bathroom, and therefore does not discover Jenny's body, but Taylor stabs her in the neck as she turns to leave. The two struggle silently, with Taylor pushing Diaz's gun down into its holster to protect himself. He is interrupted by an apparition of Jenny standing at the door, giving Diaz time to draw her weapon and shoot him. The two separate, and fall against opposite sides of the room, where they sit against the walls, dying.
In the short film tell it used many different camera shots such as pan,over the shoulder,birds eye views , wide ,voyeuristic, close up and off camera violence. throughout the film tension was built up using flashbacks , sound effects, music, lighting and shots.with shots like enigma and action code it gave a sense of suspense as there was an uncertainty of what will happen next which gave the audience a sense of suspense.
There were many props used such as weapons like the hammer which he killed his girlfriend with using off camera violence , the knife with what he was thinking of stabbing his girlfriends friend but didnt and in the end stabbed the police officer with and the gun he was shot with by the police officer.
The use of lighting was used well in the film as it used backlighting to show darkness and half and half lighting to show a dark side to the character this can be symbolic.sound effects are used to build suspense and add a bit of mystery to the film.They are also used to show emotion as when she calls him pathetic in the first scene he reacts badly to this and the music reflects this with a deep bang noise to show he is now annoyed.
With camera angles when he puts her in the bath to cut her up he is looking very upset and guilty so the close up is showing emotion and when he is on the phone to his friend and he is looking worried and is panicking. the camera has the habit of following people as for example when the police officer is upstairs looking around it is following her as if we were just behind her.
It has certain horror conventions such as the music to create an atmosphere and it touches on themes that horror films usually do for example guilt and death.Its also touches on real life as he talks to his friend about there social life and arguments between couples as well as typical horror things like suspense, fear, death and emotion.
The camera is used to good effect as it gives you clues to the story line and gives privliged postions as well as pulling you away from the action to keep some of the suspense going and give you a shock when action just appears like when the police officer is stabbed as you are not expecting it he just runs up the stairs and stabs her and when he falls off the stepladder and hits his head it just kept the suspense going.
It has certain horror conventions such as the music to create an atmosphere and it touches on themes that horror films usually do for example guilt and death.Its also touches on real life as he talks to his friend about there social life and arguments between couples as well as typical horror things like suspense, fear, death and emotion.
The camera is used to good effect as it gives you clues to the story line and gives privliged postions as well as pulling you away from the action to keep some of the suspense going and give you a shock when action just appears like when the police officer is stabbed as you are not expecting it he just runs up the stairs and stabs her and when he falls off the stepladder and hits his head it just kept the suspense going.
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