This analysis is for the short film “The decelerators” it was written and directed by Mark Slutsky. The film is about a group of friends who feel that time is slipping through their hands and they want to find a way to slow it down. They decide to create a machine that fixes the person who it’s connected to in a single moment of time. This short film goes into great depth of what moments do people treasure enough to stay in that moment of time indefinitely.
The entire film has only two audio tracks the narration and the music. This is a great effect of emphasising what is on the screen as people can easily take in what someone is saying and not have to worry about the other background noises. The films style is very dark as every shot has not much colour and seems to have been film at night. There is a slight hue effect added to each scene as this could be seen to add a dreamy state of relaxation much like the people in the film who have stopped time.
It does stick to most of the short film codes and conventions such as using a subject that really does affect the viewer in the long run. The thought of stopping everything and just feeling how you felt at that moment forever is quite a scary thought and leads the audience to question would they do it and at which moment would they do it. Other ways it sticks to the short films structure is we don’t get any background information of the characters in the film we only hear their voices narrating the audience through the story. Being a short film the total budget was very minimal and therefore the short film uses very little big action scenes or big graphic scenes scene in high end films. The titles are very simplistic with a black background and white text with a normal font. This is very reflective of short films and the genre in general as a whole because using up time to create the graphics and fonts takes away time from the actual video which most directors of short films care so much about.
The story is very unique as it is about a group of people who feel time is going past too fast so they create a machine called a “decelerator” that would lock a person in a certain moment forever. But they don’t all know when to do it some people decided to choose a moment of serenity others extreme happiness and one choose a feeling of sexual pleasure. The opening of the short film shows some locations but the clarity of this isn’t recognisable till the end of the film. These locations are of where the people chose to activate the machine and at the end it goes through them again until the last person is there saying how her perfect moment had passed because all her friends had already been locked in a past moment.
Some impressive editing is used such as the image below. The “decelerator” is graphically made and dismembered giving the audience the feeling that they can see inside the machine and that it is actually possible to make. This technique is incredibly hard to use successfully and is the only time something of its calibre is used in the short film as the graphics are time and cost consuming for the software.
Overall an amazing short film with some in depth thought processes that can have many connotations for every single viewer so I would rate it at 9/10 for it’s amazing originality amongst a wealth of other qualities.
The entire film has only two audio tracks the narration and the music. This is a great effect of emphasising what is on the screen as people can easily take in what someone is saying and not have to worry about the other background noises. The films style is very dark as every shot has not much colour and seems to have been film at night. There is a slight hue effect added to each scene as this could be seen to add a dreamy state of relaxation much like the people in the film who have stopped time.
It does stick to most of the short film codes and conventions such as using a subject that really does affect the viewer in the long run. The thought of stopping everything and just feeling how you felt at that moment forever is quite a scary thought and leads the audience to question would they do it and at which moment would they do it. Other ways it sticks to the short films structure is we don’t get any background information of the characters in the film we only hear their voices narrating the audience through the story. Being a short film the total budget was very minimal and therefore the short film uses very little big action scenes or big graphic scenes scene in high end films. The titles are very simplistic with a black background and white text with a normal font. This is very reflective of short films and the genre in general as a whole because using up time to create the graphics and fonts takes away time from the actual video which most directors of short films care so much about.
The story is very unique as it is about a group of people who feel time is going past too fast so they create a machine called a “decelerator” that would lock a person in a certain moment forever. But they don’t all know when to do it some people decided to choose a moment of serenity others extreme happiness and one choose a feeling of sexual pleasure. The opening of the short film shows some locations but the clarity of this isn’t recognisable till the end of the film. These locations are of where the people chose to activate the machine and at the end it goes through them again until the last person is there saying how her perfect moment had passed because all her friends had already been locked in a past moment.
Some impressive editing is used such as the image below. The “decelerator” is graphically made and dismembered giving the audience the feeling that they can see inside the machine and that it is actually possible to make. This technique is incredibly hard to use successfully and is the only time something of its calibre is used in the short film as the graphics are time and cost consuming for the software.
Overall an amazing short film with some in depth thought processes that can have many connotations for every single viewer so I would rate it at 9/10 for it’s amazing originality amongst a wealth of other qualities.