'THE FLY' SHORT FILM

'THE FLY' SHORT FILM 

'The Fly' is a 6 minute short film about a getaway driver who awaits a bank robbery. He tries to focus but the appearance of a fly makes his wait become increasingly intensified. 
The film is set in a car outside a bank. Various props such as doughnuts, coffee cups, masks, a knife, and a gun are used by the man to get rid of the fly. As the film proceeds, each object becomes more intense, and he ends up shooting a bullet through the window of the car to get rid of the fly. He holds a tooth pick in his mouth, which slightly foreshadows the fact that it will later end up injuring him; fake blood is then introduced in the film, and the situation is therefore intensified. The use of the airbag at one point also makes the setting smaller and the man has less space, which adds another element of stress to the situation.
The sound of the fly is loudest; it is amplified over the ambient sound of the surroundings. This draws focus to the fly, and makes it the most stressful thing, despite the bank robbery happening adjacent to the car. As the audience, we use our imagination at the end when we hear the sound of a helicopter and police sirens, but we don't see them. Sound is an important factor in the film, even if we do not see its source at the end.
At the beginning, the camera zooms into the door of the bank and we hear muffled shouts from inside  (again, we use our imagination of what is happening indoors). The film mainly consists of close ups of the man's face, because his reactions to the fly is the main focus, and what could be considered the comedic element of the film.
The average shot lengths are short, and every now and then we get a short interlude of a shot of the bank door and we hear the muffled screams. This has a more chaotic effect, but it also reminds us that the man is completely overreacting to the presence of the fly, and the bank robbery should be his main focus. The use of strobe lights when the title 'The Fly' is presented effectively draws attention to  it, however it is comedic, because the title of something so small, physically and emotionally, is over dramatized.
As for performance, the main character gets very frustrated for such a small matter, and this could be seen as comedic; all though he is not intentionally witty, his performance could come across laughable, as well as creating an intense atmosphere. 

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