Short film research: Proaopagnosia

 To fulfill my genre of mystery, I need to conduct research of what that truly looks like. This short film is named "Prosopagnosia" created by Hugo Keijzer. A short summary of this film is about a man who suffers from the condition of prosopagnosia. In more simple terms, he does not have the ability to recognize faces. This is a case where his best friend was murdered and all traces point back to him.

The sound is simply  diegetic with dialogue to evoke a suspenseful feeling. 

Common Mis-en-Scene I witnessed were the main characters, the setting of the best friend's house, and the interrogation room. The lighting was low only to create that imagined blurred vision from the main character to mimic his condition.

The editing consisted of the usual shot reverse shot, over the shoulder, eye-line level, and jump cut. 

Along my research, I found other example films such as Death on the nile, Rear window, and Psycho.

Now I want to dive into the genre elements that I like about mystery. I will include foreshadowing to give my audience a hint that something will happen. In my case, this will be negative pertaining to my film.

Next, I need an antagonist. Without a protagonist, the audience cannot predict a 'save the day' narrative. Im sure many will find that interesting. 

To add on, I need a plot.  Every film has a plot, otherwise there is no storyline and purpose to the film. I hope for reflection after intaking my film.

To continue, I need dialogue to establish the ongoing conversations to give that mystery approach to my viewers.

To end, I need hidden evidence to play at the end of the scene to gave that gasps so that audience stays and rewatches to find the clues missed upon first sight.

Not all is perfect, I did look at the other remaining side. I decided to not include a protagonist, detective, and inference gaps.  In this film, I did not like the detective. I believe it did not add much but yet waste time. The inference gaps are for longer films. Lastly the protagonist is expected, I want my audience to actually feel the emotions intended.