Awake - Short Film (Analysed)

"Awake" is a drama that deals with the ideas behind morality, the afterlife and what it means to be alone, exploring the emotional struggles that surface when dealing with such lack of interaction with anyone. The short film is fundamentally about a young man who wakes up and realises that he is all alone and the struggle he must endure facing such loneliness.

The film-makers do a creative job at hinting the reasons as to his isolation throughout the sequence through various visual metaphors involving the young man wanting to drive a car must they're always filled with water; the character's lines of dialogue. The uses of both the cinematography and sound design to emphasise the notion of loneliness was well executed through it's use of natural sounds and a lack of score that makes the sequence feel bland and dull, reflecting the character's mindset as he is engulfed by the emptiness of his world.

Overall the film-makers have executed an excellent media product which is cohesive as it consists of various visual and literal metaphors that foreshadow the reasons as to why the young man is in this unfortunate situation.