Blinded - Georgia Worsfold

Main character

• He’s dressed smart in a suit, looks like he has a professional job. Looks like an everyday man, nothing unusual about him.
• He doesn’t look like there is anything wrong with him.
• He looks very worried and confused when he is rubbing his eyes, you can tell that there is something wrong with him.
• The main character comes across as a nice respectable man.

Camera work

• It starts off with an extreme close up of a traffic light, at first you cannot see what it is and it confuses you. Then gradually the shot gets further away into a mid close up and then you can definitely tell what the subject is.
• The cars going by at eye level starts to help you understand where the location is. The two extreme long shots, show you exactly where the location is also shows how busy it is. Also helps you understand exactly what the significance of the traffic lights were. It is as if they are in a rush to turn on and off just like the people in the cars are in a rush to get where they need to be.
• There is a long shot which shows the amount of people that are concerned with what is happening to the man, this helps you realise that something like this hasn’t happened before as people stop to see what is going on.
• When the two men are in the car, the camerawork is bumpy this gives the motion that they are in the car.

Sound

• There was no music at all, the cars were the main sounds. They helped the viewer understand how fast that they were in a manic situation.
• They also keep the viewer wanting to find out what is going to happen, as its as if a car crash could happen with the speed of them.
• There is a sound of when the lights are changing, this helps you understand that they are lights when you can’t see what they are because of the extreme close up shot.
• It is very noisy before they sit in the car, when they sit in the car, it goes almost silent. This works really well as it makes the viewer focus in more from the big volume change. This also keeps the viewer interested, as the noise from all the cars doesn’t get their focus throughout.

Mise en Scene

• Normal clothing, some are quite formal, this indicates that it is a normal day. No big events are happening.
• The lighting is high key, which shows a lot of contrast, this makes you focus on the people rather than the setting.
• The main character is wearing darker clothing when the man helping his is in lighter clothing, so then you easily focus in on the main character and can see what he is going through.
• When they are both in the car and the main character is explaining how his blindness is like, ‘There’s movement to it, like shining through a sea of white’. There is extremely bright light coming across the window screen on the car, which also has a movement when it glides off the window, this allows the viewer to experience what his blindness is like.