Tom Verco - Alone - Directed by Brock Torunski - Found on YouTube

This short film is about a man who is alone years after the human race has perished due to an apocalyptic outbreak. He is left wondering why he is the only one left how did he survive?

The film starts at an office where our man is working at his desk at this point in the story everything is normal and that is what they want you to think. To then the phone ringing to what we assume to be his girlfriend/ wife asking him to come home because everyone is dying. In this scene they use a variety os shot sizes and angles they pan across his hands typing on the keyboard. they use a lot of match on action. The one shot i think that has the most effect in this scene is the close up of his eyes when he is on the phone to his girlfriend, this shows the audience the horror he has in his eyes to what is happening outside. The next scene is our protaganist waking up in bed, as an audience we find out that all that was a dream and that he seems to have that dream a lot. There is a lot of match on action and close ups to show how the character is feeling at this point in time. Our protaganist is then seen going into the bathroom to clean his teeth, as he opens the draw all we see is a tooth brush and about 10 toothpastes this shows us that he needs to stock up on items as he can't go to the shops and buy anything as he is the only man alive. We then see our protaganist eating some food from a can which we can only figure out is because there is nothing else left in the world. The next scene is out main character going outside to look for more supplies, our protaganist then decides the turn right instead of left to then find a new house with a lot of supplies in it. In this scene there are a lot of match on action again. there is a part in this scene where our protaganist goes into the basement and he runs into a med kit from this med kit we can see semantic codes for example a gun to show that maybe this is a horror film or action film but i can tell from all the other semantic codes that this film is about the end of the world. in the basement scene they use a time-lapse to show the passing of time which i think us a really useful technique to have.

 The last part of the film is our protagonist walking home to then be stopped in his tracks by a light turning on in another house. i think the story and plot relate to each other really well in this film, the story is linear as there is an order to it and that is what the directer wanted the audience to know, it makes sense and it doesn't confuse the audience as it is like any other apocalyptic story. i think the audience for this film is teenagers as that age group are into apocalyptic type story's and this story really keeps the audience on there feet as you don't know what is going to happen next. However this film doesn't have blood or anything like that so any age group could watch this,  this film was found on Youtube which means that the maker of this film possibly wanted anyone to be able to watch it.