Editing: Each shot perfectly captures the events that happens every day with these two policemen within the car. From the awkward silences to the conversations with the criminals, from eating cake in the car to singing together to some royalty free rap music.
Mise-en-scene: The movie captures the importance on what is needed within a film like Standby. It can also be sort of stereotypical with it's character choices, such as the hard-headed police driver and the newbie policewoman who is taking her experience as a policeman for the first time. Above is a reaction shot from the aftermath of a crime, and her reaction of being, almost sickly from the view of whatever happened outside. Mise-en-scene continues to be constant even outside of shot, such as the flashing lights outside of the car.
Sound: The majority of all of the sound shown in Standby is diegetic, meaning that it matches the video shown on screen. There might have been some edits with non diegetic sound in order for everything to sound clear and loud enough for the audience to understand, such as the rap music, that appears near the start of the movie, reappears half way through it, and then again in the credit title sequence.
Genre: as titled by Short of the Week, "a Comedy about Friendship in Live-action". the comedy naturally comes from the key moments in these two policemen making conversation with each other, naturally developing a bond that eventually breaks near the end of the film, which covers the "friendship" genre of this film. Comedy I believe wasn't that strong for my tastes, with the funniest parts being the conversations with the criminals, the joke about "having one candle on the cake instead of setting the whole car on fire", and the end of the film where the new recruit get's the coffee wrong, asking for 2 sugars instead of 1.
Narrative: "Standby" tells the story of Police officers Gary (Andrew Paul) and Jenny (Alexa Morden) and how their bond develops as they spend more and more time together in their shared, cramped “office space”. Cleverly jumping through key moments in their relationship, the film takes you through the duo’s cold beginnings to their emotional “break-up”. Regan says the film was inspired by “dads that struggle to verbalise their love but show it so clearly in their subtle actions” and it’s certainly the connection between her two main characters (and the performances from her lead actors) that gives the film its impact.
Title sequence: At first glance there isn't much added to this 4 second title sequence, with police sirens going off in the background mixing with some flashing imagery from police lights, in my opinion this may have to represent the "cold beginnings" as the white title is blinded by the police lights in the background, representing Gary's view of Jenny as another assistant to his job, until the movie continues on to build up the relationship.
Credit sequence: The reoccurring rap of the film, sang by Leon Cunningham, plays over the end of the Credit sequence to remind the audience that this rap was one of many reasons Gary and Jenny became good friends. The same visuals as the title sequence is used again with the flashing lights and static video editing. This may represent the new and same "Cold beginnings" Gary has with his new assistant. I couldn't find anything to represent with the text appearing and disappearing onto screen letter by letter.
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