KTA 1.1: Short Film Conventions and Analysis of Short Film

 The Ellington Kid (Directed by Dan Sully) 

In this short film the main narrative is two friends are sat a takeaway shop, one of the friends takes his friends chips so then he gets mad and starts to tell him a story abut a kid who got stabbed in an alleyway. The kid made it to the fast food shop and was saved by the shop owners. It cuts back to the two friends in the present as he jokes about the menthol stabbed the kid being turned into burger meat. Furthermore, the films structure is mainly set in the past, more specifically a month before the two friends are talking in the present, however it follows the same structure as once theorised by Tzventa Todorov, this theory is that all films (short or feature) follow the same conventional structure for example there is an equilibrium, then a disturbance and then finally there is a new equilibrium. It is from a third person point of view, this person being one of the guys in the shop telling his friend about what happened to a kid who got stabbed. The structure of the story is set in a flashback this giving the narrator of the story to alter it in ways to scare his friend, it also ends on a cliff hanger with one of the workers at the shop cutting up the meat that was said in the story that it was human meat, this lets the audience think that the story was true or just a lie that one of the friends made up to get back at his other friend for eating his food.