'The Wanderer' Analysis;

'The Wanderer' (Dramatic Narrative) by Navajo Joe Films. Dir. Harrison J Bahe.
Synopsis: 'A man wanders aimlessly through life regretting the decisions he made that lead him to this point in his journey.'

I chose to analyse this short narrative as I had done so for another film from the same director and felt it emanated the same emotional response as I want my short film to show.
 The film starts out with an establishing shot of an American country road, the shot is filmed in black and white which I believe strengthens the isolation of the location (desert surroundings(black) with the flow of modern cars on the road (white). There is no traffic going past on the cameras side of the road, whereas on the other side there is a steady number of vehicles, The character then walks into the shot and as he does so an extremely large lorry drives past him, symbolising that the characters world is just passing him by in both directions. Non diegetic text then appears in the lower left hand corner with the words 'The Wonderer', establishing that the film will be about the character who is a wanderer.
The use of non diegetic sound is very important to the effectiveness of the film as without it the shots simply show a man walking along a road and there is no purpose. The script is implied to be the characters inner monologue as he describes his situation. The first lines of the script are 'There was nothing, but the road before me', these words contradict with the mise-en-scene of the scene as there are cars, mountains and trees around the character but they also emphasise the isolation that the character is feeling, all he sees is the road, he is completely oblivious to the world around him and this is again strengthened with the close up shot of the characters face, he shows no facial expression and he is simply looking straight forwards, it gives off the effect that he is empty, and reborn into the world trying to find purpose, he says 'I had no idea where it would lead me, but I knew it would lead me to where...I at least wanted to be' implying he does not know where he is going or will end up, but wherever it is, he will want to be there.

Although my short film is not based outdoors or about a wanderer, it does carry the same element of being lost within society. As Tam is deaf, I want to use similar techniques within the sound editing that 'The Wanderer' uses such as a sense of silence until an overly loud thing passes (e.g. the lorry in 'The Wanderer' and the Kettle in my film)