Textual Analysis of Existing Short Film-'Pudding Bowl'

The first existing short film I am going to do a textual analysis on is 'Pudding Bowl' by Vanessa Caswill.

MISE-EN-SCENE:
- natural lighting
Location:
- set in the 1950's era therefore all the furniture in the house was old fashioned.
Costume:

-'Ivy' was wearing a red polka dot dress and beige knitted cardigan which was popular in the 50's.
-she wears big vintage glasses with red ribbon in her hair to show her age (9 years old)
-'Jack'(Ivy's brother) is wearing a collared 'V' neck shirt with grey three quarter length trousers.
- the 'mother' is a housewife therefore she is wearing an apron and neutral coloured clothes.
Hair:
-'Jack' pours glue in 'Ivy's hair therefor her mother gives her a pudding bowl haircut and she refuses to stop imagining about Hollywood.
Props:
- 'Ivy' loses herself in glamorous images of Hollywood magazines and imagines herself a Hollywood star and uses lipstick and takes off her glasses.

CAMERAWORK:
- at the start of the short film, there is a pan over the hollywood magazines 
- there is the technique of pulling focus, which only focuses on the picture in the magazine.
- to show Ivy's intense imagination, they use a close up on her face whilst she is cutting out of Hollywood magazines.
- there is a use of a high angle shot when the mother finds out Ivy has glue in her hair, this shows POV from Ivy's eyes and creates tension.
- there is an interesting shot used when the mother is cutting the hair. It is filmed from the floor looking up at Ivy and hair falls onto the camera and you can see the despair in Ivy's face.
- when she looks at 'Jack' and his friends she puts up her glasses to her face, the first shot is from a far then a subjective filming shot of her looking through her glasses which is very effective.
- there is a reverse tracking shot (low loader) when she rides off on the bike, as she is close to the camera you see her happy facial expressions, which emphasises she is still dreaming.

EDITING:
- there is an action match when Ivy is cutting the pictures at the start.
- it cuts into the 'Jack' looking over at Ivy and doesn't look happy.It cross cuts from his friends outside to Ivy.
- the mother is making dinner in the kitchen and you first see her making it then jump cuts into a close up of the meat.
- there is a type of dissolve transition into the haircut scene. 
- over time when the mother cuts the hair it starts to speed up showing the mother loosing her patience and in the end there is a quick montage of different parts of hair being cut off then layered together at the end to emphasise that Ivy had long hair.
- when the hair falls to the floor it fades to black to show Ivy's emotions of being upset.
- at the end when ivy's riding the bike it goes into a slow motion shot to transition into her dream.
- the dream is also in slow motion and has a glowing effect to show its her imagination.
- it abruptly cuts back into the reality of what 'Jack' and his friends see.

Overall I like 'Pudding Bowl' as it has a simple storyline but includes very unique styles of camerawork and editing which I am interested in using myself. For example:
- the camera angle from the floor as it is effective.
- a subjective filing shot of what they are looking at.
I like the title of the short film as it very random but you only understand it if you watch it which makes you click and watch.