0:00-0:01
A man comes into the car, he is wearing a dark blue button-up with dark gold lines that form a plaid pattern with a white shirt underneath it. His hair is tucked behind his ears and it is assumingly a little bit longer than chin-length. He also has a mustache and a somewhat goatee. The car is outside which can be shown because of the trees in the background.
We can see the man’s face in this first second as it is the opening. We are looking at him at an angle where we can also see the side of the kids face. He is entering the car head first and reaching for the kid. In this clip it shows that it is just him and the kid.
0:01-0:02
The camera pans over to a child who is strapped into a car seat and shows the full body image of both the man and the child. The man is wearing caki-colored pants with his hair in a bun and wearing a watch on his wrist while the child is wearing a red shirt with jeans and tan colors velcro shoes. The child’s hair is also short. The man has his upper body inside the backseat of the car while holding onto the buckle of the car seat that the child is in. The car seat also has a cup holder on the right side of it.
When the camera zooms out we can see that there are other cars around him, leading us to believe he is in a parking lot. When the camera zooms out we can see the whole car from a side angle and we can confirm that he is just him and the kid. Based on the first two seconds it seems that we are being advertised or shown the car seat alot.
0:03-0:04
the camera pans from the man holding the buckle to the man covering his eyes. The camera then pans over to the child also closing his eyes.
0:05-0:06
The child has his eyes closed and then opens them while sticking out his tongue. It then pans over to the man fully buckling the child into the car seat. It then pans over to the concrete outside of the car while showing the shadows of people.
0:07-0:08
the camera shows that the shadows are of two girls playing basketball. One of the girls is in a purple tank top with grey sweatpants and her hair in a ponytail while the other girl is in a black tank top and black pants with a sweater wrapped around her waist. Her hair is also in a bun. It then shows that the girl in the purple tank top makes the shot into the net and pans back over to her smiling with her teeth showing and her eyes closed. It seems to be around midday maybe later from the way the shadows are out and the sun is a glowing gold color.
0:09-0:11
The girl in the purple tank top puts her arms up to simulate celebrating her making the shot and the girl in the black tank top then hands her a white water bottle while patting her shoulder. The girl in the purple tank top is taller than the girl in the black.
0:12-0:13
The next scene is a black girl with curly hair and blond ends with bangs opening the passenger side door of a car. She is wearing a light purple long-sleeved shirt with a green bookbag on. In the back seat of the car, there is a woman with short curly hair and a white button-up with black stripes and black pants buckling her son into a car seat. The boy is wearing an orange shirt with dark blue pants and black glasses with short straight hair.
0:14-0:15
The woman and the boy are both looking at the girl opening the front and then the woman points to a seat next to the boy signaling the girl to get into the back rather than the front. It then pans over to the girl closing the door while looking annoyed.
0:16-0:17
The girl in the purple shirt then moves to the back seat and buckles herself while rolling her eyes at the woman.
0:17-0:19
The next scene is a white man with light brown hair and a light-brown beard, wearing an orange short-sleeved shirt. The man is laughing and smiling while buckling in a baby who is wearing a teal-colored shirt.
0:20-0:21
The camera zooms out and shows the man having his upper body in the car to buckle in the baby and shows the baby wearing a teal-colored bodysuit with no socks or shoes. the car seat is also facing backward as opposed to the first child whose car seat was facing the front of the car.
0:22-0:23
The man finishes buckling the baby into the seat and the camera shows the baby drooling and asleep. The baby has blond hair.
0:24-0:25
It then pans back to the woman in the white striped shirt making sure that the seat belt is laying on the boy’s body flat.
0:26-0:27
Then pans back to the man with the bun talking to the boy in the car seat while slowly exiting the back seat of the car while holding onto the child’s leg.
0:28-0:30
The final scene is the baby in the teal body suit looking out the window of a moving car.
—Are we inside the car or outside?
—Where is he? In a garage? On the side of a highway?
—Do we see the man from the front, the side, the back?
—Are we in closeup? Or viewing the scene from a distance?
—Presumably we can see his face, but do we?
—A lot can happen. A lot of information can be given.
—Does he enter the car feet first or head first?
—Will he be driving? Or does he have other business?
—Is he alone?
—If he’s not alone, how if at all do others react?
—Is he “coming in” to the front or the back seat?
—Is this the first frame of a car commercial?
—Of course you can’t say so definitively, but you do recognize you’re being set up for SOME KIND OF narrative. Is it a new car ad? If not, what other kind of story will be told? in your opinion? based on the first second?
And on and on.
—How’s the video quality? What do you conclude from that, if anything?
—Does the man’s age, race, clothing, grooming, suggest anything at all?
—Did you notice there’s a child in the car during that first second?
—What’s up with that?
🙂
Early material is better.
Regraded.