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In the short film "Donkey" (2011) by Keir Burrows the camera movement is very simple. The camera is mostly just stationary, but especially in the beginning of the film, the camera is hand-held and pans. In the film there is also quite a lot of zooming which matches the very intimate and personal story the main character tells. The film is filmed in black and white which also gives a dramatic vibe to it. The framing of the film consist of mostly of medium and close-up shots. The angles that are used are mostly eye-level and worm's-eye views, but there are also some bird-eye shots included. The film shows a lot of close-ups of the protagonist, objects from the school and random buildings and shops.

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The short film Donkey is build up in a effortless way and isn't focused on cinematography, instead the focus was on the sound.

The movie is filmed in black and white, which gives the movie a more old and serious/dramatic effect. The most common framing shots in the movie is medium shots,  some close up shots and some over the shoulder shots. The shots will give the viewer a more alive and dramatic affect. There is also some long shots, that is mostly used to describe the environment and the surroundings.

They way the movie has been filmed is “over the shoulder shot” with a camera angle, which almost through the hole movie, mostly eye level. The way the movie is filmed is common for short films and also normal films.

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The camera movement in donkey is very still. A few times the short film makes use of a, zoom and tilt, but it’s in a very slow and control movement. This makes you notice a lot of details and really makes you think of what the narrator says because the visual is just there to be visuals. there are a lot of different angles in the short film, you see the over the shoulder, low angle, the framing medium shot and the framing long shot. So there is no angle they use all the time, but almost every second, changes the camera angle.

The framing in donkey is key to understanding the story, and message of the short film. The use of many long shots of empty halls, and lifeless objects help us sympathise with the main characters story and his loneliness. On the other hand, the low use of close ups makes us appreciate the character more, and makes us feel the humanity in him. The framing helps us visualise the story without us even noticing.

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Cinematography is the art of camera placement. Framing, angle, lighting all these effects visualize what the viewer will see and feel. While sound creates understanding and emotion, cinematography creates order, or even disorder, depending on the context. If cinematography didn't exist, every movie ever made, would seem messy and and boring

In the short film “Donkey” there’s been a lot of use of cinematography in order to make it more entertaining, which is important when making short films, because of the short span of time you have. There framing is dominant by medium shots,  There is a big variety of framing shot in the short film, but the main person is always in focus, except when there is a structure that really stands out, or is the main focus in the frame. The framing makes you feel like you’re watching him through his day. You’re not feeling like you are besides him, you're just observing him, like a fly on the wall

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In the beginning we see a close up off the narrator, then a long shot of some children playing, and then back to the close up off the narrator. When he’s walking on the bridge  there’s a extreme long shot and than we cut into a medium shot.When he is one the bridge they use worm’s-eye view. But throughout most of the movie the angle is eye level. A few times high angle. Later where he’s still walking we have an over  the shoulder, and following there’s a lot of shots where there’s either extreme long shot or long shot, where he’s walking, through the city. The movie contain a lot of medium shots and close up in general but especially later in the movie.

They don’t use zoom a lot, but there is a time where they use zoom to get a closer view to donky’s memory

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Keir Burrows short film “Donkey” is a short film in black and white. This makes the short film seem more dramatic - and could symbolize his own outlook. Donkey is mostly ruled by close ups, which makes it intense and interesting. Throughout the movie there’s a couple long shots, making us aware of the surroundings. The camera movement is mostly still, but zoom and tilt is used a few times.

In the middle of the movie there is an aerial shot consisting of a timelapse of the city. The most of the movie is eye-level - this results in us feeling we’re there with the characters.

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When you see the movie Donkey, you will quickly realize that the strength of the movie isn't in the cinematography but in the sound. But the cinematography has a bigger purpose than you might think. The movie is in black and white witch gives the movie a dramatic effect. The framing of the movie is mostly dominated by medium shots to close-ups, that also adds to the dramatic effect. There is also use of long shots, but they are primarily used to establish the environment.

Then there are also some other small things that have been used like, over the shoulder shot and that the movies camera angle mostly is at eye level. But I don’t think that it is anything important, it is just very common for these types of movies. Overall I think that there are some elements that are important in the cinematography, but it does not come close to what effect the sound has. Try to think of it this way, where do you get the most out of the movie? in the cinematography or in the sound?

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Mathieu Ratthe’s 2008 short film “Lovefield” makes great use of sound to create an emotional response in the viewer. As the film opens, we see a field of wheat, and a rusty town sign hanging on chains. The setting is made ominous through the use of diegetic sound effects of the wind blowing through the field and the creaking of the town-sign chain. In addition, the off-screen and synchronous crowing of the crow helps build the suspense. The asynchronous, diegetic sound effect of the busy-signal from a cell phone makes the viewer think it might be a crime scene. This feeling is further strengthened as the camera slowly reveals the phone, bloody underwear, as well as a woman's painful cries. All the while, the non-diegetic film score serves to underline the sense of horror. It is only towards the end of the film, that we realise that what we thought was underscoring really was contrapuntal music, because we now realize that the woman was actually giving birth. The resulting emotional response of relief and joy is strengthened through the bright, hopeful use of underscoring, as we then hear the only dialog of the film: “It's a boy” and a “Thank you”.