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Camera Angles/Movements : The most prevalent camera angles in this film were medium shots and close ups, like most comedy fil ms. The medium shots showed various students, but mostly Charles, reading the book and the teacher patrolling the classroom. Close ups also mostly featured Charles and the janitor as well, highlighting their faces and skin. These shots made for an average collection that leaves the scenes up to the characters to command.   Sound : The sound in this film was mostly diegetic but had a score slowly fading the classroom noise away when Charles was focused on the janitor. The dialogue had a heavy focus in this film, especially the teacher and her condescending yet amusing attempts to appeal and praise Charles.   Mis- en -scene : As is typically for comedies, the costumes, make-up, and set are kept rather average and simple. The simplicity of these features leaves focus on  the characters and comedy they create for themselves. The only notable costumes were

Camera Angles/Movements : Comedies typically have many medium-wide shots that show characters interacting with each other and their surroundings , as were commonly used in this film . This genre also includes close-ups to show emotion on people or emphasize props for comedic effect.   There a re few intense shots like action shots o r aerial shots.   Sound : Similar to horror conventions, nondiegetic sound is used infrequently in comedy short films while diegetic sound is highly favored. This film relied on dialogue to drive the comedy and a quiet but peppy soundtrack to drive the feeling at certain points. The horror comedy also made slight use of classic horror sound effects to make light of the situations and induce comedies.   Mis- en -scene : Costumes are typically kept in line with regular casual fashion for the characters and their situations or wildly different to drive comedic effect. This film kept with both tropes, having a large majority of characters in average