Short film research: Sahar

 To fulfill my genre of mystery, I need to conduct research of what that truly looks like. This short film is named "Sahar" that is created by Alexander Farah. I picked up on visuals and notes, so I will analyze the conventions of this short film. To provide a short summary, this short film is about a disappearance of a daughter after being kicked out by her religious family for repeating mistakes.

First I would like to draw attention to the sound. There are a lot of dialogue and diegetic sound placed into the short film as the family is focused on the sister and her recent actions.

The Mis-En-Scene was family simple as it was only four family characters and one detective. The setting was the family house, the outside view, and detective's office. Low lighting as expected for this religious family to pray and the night-like environment. 

Lastly,  the editing in this particular film of mystery had the usual shot reverse shot, action match, and eye-line match.

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

To switch ideas, my research led me to find  five elements of my genre of mystery. 

I need 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. With my character going behind both the friend group's back and the partner's back, the viewers can identify their true intentions within the film.

To add on, I need a plot. There needs to be steps to my film that build the story so that my audience truly understands and can reflect after watching my media.

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 when the audience realizes my pitch.

With all pros, follow along cons and elements that do not appeal to my liking to the film. I selected to opt out of using a protagonist, detective, and inference gaps. Personally, my research and notes on these elements simply goes against the pitch my team decided. I believe it will interfere with the quality of my work and leave the audience bewildered.