Texual Analysis: Sofa So Good.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/films/p00n8q93

Synopsis:
Dominc waits by a van outside a residential building in South London. He's joined by an old fiend Nico and it's an awkward reunion.
Dominic has contacted him after a long gap and financially challenged Nico has asked him to help collect a free sofa from one of the flats.
The friends walk into a heated break-up scene as the couple argue over the ownership of the sofa; it's a full-blown furniture custody battle.
The guys finally acquire the sofa and struggle to get it outside, and that's the easy part.

Short Fact:
This is the follow up to the Short Film Deadpan Valentine (2006) which also stars Mark  Parsons and has music by Gavin Saunders.

Crew:
Director-Robin Lindsey
Writer-Robin Lindsey
Producer-Robin Lindsey
Director of Photography-Sam Edwards
Editor-Steve Lennon
Music-Gavin Saunders

Cast:
Dominic-Mark Parsons
Nico-Elio Ruggieri
Rugby Shirt-Simon Balcon
Sofa Lady-Sarah Thomas Lane

Funded by:
Self Funded.

My Personal Review:

Mise-en-Scene:
The Urban city that Nico and Dominic walk through with the sofa connotes how far they have to go. It also looks like they have stolen the sofa which is quite amusing. It's also good because they have started off at what looks like the central city with all the flats and then made it to the park and then to the street of houses. 
throughout the majority of the sequence there's an Enigma, why is Dominic so awkward around Nico and we later find out it's because his wife is pregnant and he doesn't think he's cut out for parenthood.

Sound:
There is no music just dialogue and non-diegetic sounds of the airplanes and the cars that are nearby. I think in short films you don't necessarily need music especially in a comedy because it's the dialogue that's supposed to be concentrated on the hardest. As this is the humour.

Editing:
Like Get Off My Land there is no fancy editing but I think this is partly to do with the budget. I would also say that because it's a comedy the editing is irrelevant it's merely the script that has to be perfectly hilarious for people to watch and enjoy. as long as the short film flows and isn't jumpy I think t would be fun for the audience to watch and is easy to watch as well.

Camera shots, angles and movement:
There is a tilted wide shot that connotes how big the sofa is and it also focuses on how strained the men look not just with the weight of the sofa but the weight of the relationship they are obviously finding it hard to get talking to each other again.
There's also an over the shoulder shot which is crucial right at the end to explain the joke that Nico has just said which is "here give us the remote this s*** is rubbish" and we find that they are sitting in front of rubbish bins. If this shot was not here the joke wouldn't have been half as funny. It's nice as well that they had a reaction shot from Dominic and Nico as laughing is contagious and it makes the audience laugh even more.
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