Never Happens – Gained Access :30 | Heatstroke Prevention

0:00: Immediately, the first appearance on the screen is a child (white) that is sitting in the center foreground where we are at the same eye level as the child. It appears that the child is sitting on top of a rectangular carpet on a wooden floor in a narrow beige hallway with multiple pathways with different entrances which indicates that the child is inside of a house. There’s one entrance to the right side of the child of the screen, one doorway entrance behind the child towards background, which is the end of the hallway, and one to the left end of the hallway which appears to extend further left. The door at the end of the hallway is slightly open which emits a color of baby blue.

The child’s face shows a hue of red and scrunched up which appears that the child is crying in the scene. What was the child crying about? Is the child throwing a tantrum? The child looks around the age of one to three years old because of the fully-grown blond hair that is draped down to shoulders lengths and is wearing a diaper. We would assume the child would be a boy despite having long hair because of the color clothing. The child is wearing baby blue, and white horizontal stripes across the T-shirt, and a pair of dark blue baby crocs, but apparently the child is missing one of the crocs because the child is only wearing a sock and one croc. Could that be the reason why the child is crying and throwing a tantrum? It could also be a girl despite the color clothing. The child is looking a little to the right side then proceeds to look upwards. Why is the child looking there? Is it the culprit of what made the child cry or the aftermath of what happened? As the child was crying, the camera slowly moved to the left as it follows the motion of the child lifting both of its legs up while still sitting on the carpet floor, then slowly stops and wobbles back and forth a little as the child’s legs came back down onto the carpet. Suggests that the camera could be following the motion of the child’s tantrum.

The way they make this scene to make the child stand out more is not only because the child is at the center foreground, but the difference of the amount of color that is shown on the screen. There are more beige colors than baby blue where the color of the baby blue from the door, and the color of the child’s shirt is one-third of the overall screen that is centered vertically while two-thirds of the screen is beige colored which is from the left and right side of the screen vertically. Not only that, but the door that is emitting baby blue helps to show the outlines of the child’s head to prevent the blends between beige and blond. Another important key factor of how the child stands out is how the overall scene is mostly straight vertical lines while the only horizontal line we see is the shirt that the child is wearing.

0:01-0:02: The next scene transition to a man standing on the right side of the screen with a wall that is covered half of the screen. His face appearance looked distraught based on his actions of taking a deep breath, sighing, and then looking downwards to the right side of him. Indicating that he was stressed or tired. What was the reason he looked stressed? The man is also in a room which could indicate that he is also in the same house as the child. His blond hair and brown eyes could indicate that he is the father of the child because the child also has the same characteristics. Could the child be the source of his stressful behavior?

The way the composition of this scene did was the use of the lighting in the scene. The right side where the man is standing  has more brightness than what it is shown on the left side. Also the amount of details where the right side has more objects and items like the ceiling light, the potted plant, and a part of a corner shelf while the left side is strictly just a plain mono color.

0:03: The scene went back to the child but this time an arm is sticking out from the right side of the screen and is holding a TV remote and is giving it to the child. It could be the father from the previous scene. The child stopped crying as soon as the child saw the remote. Could it be that the child wanted to watch TV?

0:04: An abrupt switch to a different scene with a different person. This time it appears to be a woman in the household. This could be the wife of the family. It looks like she is about to head out of the house based on the strap that she is carrying on her right shoulder, and she is standing in front of a windowed door. It could be a purse or a bag that she is wearing. It looks like she is either looking for something or calling for someone based on her looking downwards at the object she is carrying, and her hand was moving towards her bag. The way the light emits from the windowed door helps make the woman stands out, and her sweater has multiple thin black line around it which shows the volume between the vertical and horizontal lines.

0:05-0:07: Another abrupt transition scene is now another child, but this time an older, and taller one that is standing behind the glass door. The child appears to be a girl from her fluffy skirt, pink straps which seem to be her backpack, and a bandana. She could be another child of the family based on how she is wearing baby blue just like the child from the earlier scene. We can tell that she is inside the household because her face is very close to the glass door where her face is smeared and looking towards her right. Where is she looking? She is possibly looking at the potted plants outside until she turns around looking happy and running towards the same woman from the previous scene. We now see the girls back side where it is a unicorn backpack which we are assuming that she is going to school.

0:07:0:08: The scene did another abrupt transition and this times, it’s a black man that is in the foreground and a black little girl in the background. We are assuming that they are a father and daughter scenario. They appear to be outside because there are pavements, bushes, and a chair in the background. The father seems to be in a vehicle because there is a seatbelt at the right side of the screen, and both the daughter and the father seems to be at their own household driveway because there is a bucket of color chalks on the pavement, which the daughter is using the chalks to make art at their own property. The father is holding some sort of tube that has a hole in it. Either he is cleaning or fixing his car.

0:08-0:09: The scene cuts and zooms to the father’s legs where he is walking to the left side of the screen. Where was he going? Then the camera focused on the daughter as the father left the stage, looking down and playing until she saw her father walk away, and then look towards the camera. Assuming that she is looking at the car because the camera didn’t change angles.

0:10-0:14: We’ve come to a different angle where we are looking at the back side of the car on ground level where a single tire fills up the display. The car is the foreground however it is blurred because the camera is focusing on a part of a leg which could be the same daughter from the previous scene. The scene shows the motion that she is going inside of the car. Then it shows the act of her pressing a button inside of the car. What did the button do? From pressing the button, the scene shows the outside part of the car door where the door is slowly closing.

0:14-0:17: It showed different scene angles such as a bucket, the house, the same car, and an open garage. This could represent silence where there is no motion, no life, and only static.

0:17-0:24: We now go back to the father who appears to be inside of the open garage because we can see the same car at the background, and the garage door is above the fathers head. The father had a confused expression and looked behind him to his right side as he probably noticed something was off. As he turned around to look, the camera was now placed inside the car facing the father through the front of the car window. Probably the view of the daughter who got into the car. The father’s head was looking towards the right, and then towards the car assuming that he couldn’t find his daughter from the last time he saw her. As the father was facing the camera, the father made a run towards the right side of the screen. This indicates that the father puts the pieces together. As the father rushes to the right side of the screen, the camera follows the father until the father reaches to the side of the car door. Then the scene transitions into the father, lifting his daughter away from the car as the car door opens. The daughter’s face looks weary. Was she tired? As the father embraces the daughter.

0:25-0:30: A caption pops up showing the statistics of hot car deaths when a child gets into the car. While the captions appear, there’s a close shot between the father and daughter where the father looked relived and smiled. Probably after what happened at the previous scene. Then another caption pops up that says to prevent hot car deaths, and three specific words showed up one by one. Each word were STOP, LOOK, and LOCK. And then black screen.

Overview: The way the filmmakers are doing was to use the pathos approach where it shows the connections between the parent and a child. Each scene shows different interactions with of how each parent and child acts together. It was to show that it’s a duty as a parent to take care and look after them, and never lose sight of them.