Too Quick To Judge Directed By Maaz Khan Analysis By Connor Hilton

Too Quick To Judge Directed By Maaz Khan Analysis

By Connor Hilton

About The Film:

The film is about a young man who comes across a woman sitting on a bench in a park where he has come for a run. The young man tries to compliment the woman on her drawing and she appears to ignore him twice before he gets frustrated and leaves for a lap around the park when he returns the woman has left a note.

From the YouTube Description: "A short-film that teaches us that we shouldn't be too quick to judge people."

Concepts:

• Representation
• Audience
• Media Language

Analysis:

• The film opens on a long shot of a female character sitting alone on a bench in a park setting.
• The female character is also wearing a short dress, like she could be dressed for a special occasion.  
• The female character is drawing in a sketch book on the end of the bench.
• We then cut to a close up of the page in the female characters sketch book that shows she is drawing a woman in a long dress.

Long Shot of female character on bench

CU of the sketch

• A few seconds pass and a male character approaches and places his bag on the bench.
• The female character doesn't look at him at all as if  she doesn't know he's there we see this via a 2 shot. 
• The male character stretches, puts his headphones in and sets off on a run leaving his bag on the bench.
• The shot fades into another long shot of the female character indicating to the audience that some time has passed. 

LS 2 shot of the two characters

• The male character takes a seat on the bench with the female character and notices her drawing.
• The male character attempts to compliment the drawing, yet the female character doesn't reply or even look at him. 
• This seems odd to the audience because the female characters body language is positive as she is sitting up straight with her arms open.
• The male character attempts to compliment the drawing a second time and the same thing happens. 
• The male character begins explaining how he was only trying to compliment the drawing and that he wasn't interested in her and the female character doesn't even look at him once again. 
• The male character stands up and begins packing things into his bag, the female character looks at him confused.
• The male character is complaining to the female character about how every girl thinks every guy is interested in them. 
• The male character then leaves for another lap of the park.

mid shot of male character leaving

• As the male character leaves the female character looks at him with a confused facial expression which we see via a close up.
• We then get an over the shoulder shot of the female character writing on her sketch.
• She then tears the page out, slides it under the male characters bag and leaves.
• This creates enigma as the audience is left to wonder what she wrote on the paper for a few seconds.

OTS shot of writing on sketch.

• We see an extreme long shot of the male character approaching the bench.
• He looks around to see if the female character is still there and then notices the piece of paper under his bag.
•  He picks the sketch up and sits on the bench.
• We get an over the shoulder close up of the sketch and the writing reads " Sorry if I offended you...I'm deaf."
• We then see a reaction shot of the male character and his facial expression shows regret and sadness. 
• The film cuts to black and a quote appears on screen "Don't be too quick to judge".

Conclusion:

In my opinion, this short film is trying to represent how quickly people will judge someone and how assumptions can be made too quickly and can lead to confusion and anger. It portrays this message to the audience very well by hiding details and explanation until the end. The ending can be predicted as it can be obvious that the female character was deaf as her body language was mainly positive throughout the film. Some people may have assumed that the female character was judging the male character too quickly at the start of the film because she didn't even talk to him but this is twisted at the end and can lead to the audience being surprised 

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The Short Film: