THE VIOLINIST SHORT FILM 4

The Violinist by Greg Glienna 

This short is based on two guys playing two different instruments and one is getting a lot more attention than the other. I guess you could say, the binary opposites between being popular vs. being unpopular.

The start of the film is a black screen which fades straight into the first frame. We hear the violin our character is playing before we see him, which is called off screen sound. We know this is diegetic as he is the person playing it. 
From the first frame, it seems like he is alone, to then find out there is someone 5 meters away from him, playing the triangle.

Ultimately, the violin would seem more impressive to the audience, which is what makes this so unusually funny. 
The setting the violinist is playing in, seems quite classy. He is wearing a suit, and a shirt, which is all done up. He is very well groomed, which would suggest he is quite wealthy, middle-upper class.

The camera pans to a boy, not very well groomed compared to the first character, with the facial expression of cheekiness and happiness combined. 
The two shot shows that the woman that walked past did not tip the violinist. She is in jeans and a rucksack, wearing a blue hoodie, much like our triangle player. This shows they may connect on more of a personal level.
The neighbourhood he seems to be playing in seems to be a "less" important place than he thought, considering the people walking past are not in suits, and are not tipping big. We can see from the close up, that he only has coins in his case, however our second character has a hat, and its full of dollars. 

The close up of the triangle player smirking at our first character suggests he is innocent, and just trying to make some money without any hassle, but it also connotes that he is proud that he is doing better than a suited up violin player.