Standy Textual analysis

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Mise-en-scene:
Due to the director picking one female and one male lead protagonist the narrtative of the short film works well as the contrasting personalities and stereotypes of the two characters compliment each other in order to create a real life comedy scene. Due to the male protagonist being portrayed as the grumpy male who doesn't want to converse at the start of the scene, the narrative focuses around this character coming out of his shell and adpating to the charisma of the female lead who is much more fun and outgoing.
The casting of characters in a police role also adds to the narrative structure as the audience get to witness the lighter side of 'police officers' in a syterical way which makes the car scene even funnier as the audience do not neccesarily expect this behaviour from this group of people.


Camera:
Throughout the film only one shot is used- which is a medium shot- and is set up in a way which is associated with a carpool karaoke scene. The use of this camera angle may have been used by the director in order to show that the job of a local police officer can be extremely boring and repetitive and therefore they have to create relationships in order to get through day.  The framing of the shot is always the same and very rarely has more than two characters on screen at once, when another character is used in the scene they usually add to the comical aspects of the two officers and play a role in the comical narrative.


Editing:
One of the only editing techniques used in the short film is a jump cut which shows the progression of the relationship between the two characters whilst cutting out the finer details. The jump cuts, cut between different scenarios that the two characters have faced together and shows how the two become more comfortable with eachother as the scene goes on without stretching out the small jokes too much.


Sound:
Throughout the short film only diegetic sound is used and the dialogue in the film grows consitently throughout as the two become more comfortable with eachother. This can be evidently seen through the use of the song 'Shutdown' which when first used only shows the girl lip syncing and singing, but once revisited later on in the sequence both characters can be seen singing along.