The Boss Short Film Analysis By Greg Glienna

We are introduced to a car which seems to be pretty pricey, to our main male character who is in a navy shirt and is well groomed. It seems to be quite a nice area, with semi-dethatched houses and nice cars and roads.
He approaches a cleaners called “Aqua clean”, this suggests he has money, this implies that our male protagonist is part of the middle class status.

The close up of the character putting in his money, expecting to receive some coins, his face drops when it comes straight back out rejecting his money. His facial features exclaim disappointment and confusion. What's more humorous about this shot is that it specifically says "dispense coins only when flashing". The fact the close up picks up it is flashing and it still rejects his bill shows the genre as being comedic.

This scene is all about all the other people who approach the coin machine and it works for them. The main character is behind them watching their every move.
The extreme close up on the first shot is to explain how the new characters bill was completely screwed up in his pocket and it still managed to dispense money for him.
His facial expression and body language is key, as he literally stops what he is doing just to face the fact that the machine really doesn't like him.




The setting then expands further showing us the rest of the dry cleaners. There is a female character next to him, which he doesn't take much notice to.




His reaction to the new note that has now also been rejected has made him very frustrated with his facial expressions. The fact that his top few buttons are undone suggests he only wanted to quickly get some change and leave...obviously not the case here.
He then starts treating the machine as if it was a woman. He starts using phrases such as:
M: "you like that?"
M: "give it to me".

This sort of behaviour is disturbing other people surrounding him, such as the lady standing next to him thinking "what is he doing?". We laugh as the mid shot of the lady shows her loading her washing into the washing machine, but turning her shoulder to the noises of this man.
He then gets his change, after sexualising the machine, gets his change covered in white liquid. His facial expression is quite frustrated and confused. The shot types aren't very varied within this short, but I don't think it needed to be, as i said above, the camera is working as the machine.
Good analysis again - notice again the restricted number of characters and settings - making it possible on a limited budget
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