Week 12 Blog

In the short film, "Elevator Music", what occurs is two individuals get into the elevator at first and each plays their form of musical entertainment  for the ride to their destination. Eventually the elevator is full of several individuals play their form of entertainment. However, everyone stops playing their music when an individual walk in the elevator with a boombox. Everyone proceeds to wait in anticipation, but the guy put in headphones. Then elevator music kicks in.  

Using the film, the author who submitted their film to Virgin Media Shorts wanted to portray how and why elevator music was incorporated into the elevator for the rides to various floors. The author of the film purpose in the making of the film is to show his ability to make a film. I am making this inference base off the fact that the channel the film is posted on is a channel with the goal to find the best undiscovered film makers in the UK. In terms of the audience of the film, is anybody that has ever been been a part of an elevator ride and had to listen to the music in an elevator. My reasoning for making that connection is by how everyone became distracted by the elevator music at the end of the video. 

The film itself, has three qualities of a community embedded in it that proves a variety characteristics of community. One characteristic that the film shows is the ethnic diversity of a community. The film uses a variety of sexes, career, and race. A second similar characteristic the film portrays is how communities can a have a variety of interests in an area. The film shows this by the variety of genre each person listens to.  A third characteristic the film portrays is how some community can be isolated and only talk to other members when necessary. The film uses how each member in the video do not say a word and only look at one another for a moment upon entering the elevator. There are several other characteristics of community within the film.