'Lovefield' is a 6 minute American short film created by Mathieu Ratthe.
It starts off with an empty field of crops, looking very dry and as though they haven't had rain for a number of years. You get the sense of the emptiness by the wind noises and the eery strings music that are playing very clashing notes. As the music dies out you get the sounds of creeky signs and you see the very famous symbol of Mathieu Ratthe films: the Black Crow. This creates a tense feeling and is then aided by the sound of a mobile phone beeping. As the camera moves past the phone, we start to see more and more things scattered on the floor and begin to hear a female crying. You see blood spattered clothing and the female stops moving as a Knife is stabbed into the ground. The music and sound effects build this up to sound like a typical horror film where somebody has been killed.
As we move up to start to see a character profile, we don't get to see his face, but instead it focuses on the Black Crow. This indicates to us that a death has occurred. As the man starts to look around he then runs toward the car, where you think he is about to drive off being the guilty murderer. But instead he heads to the back of the vehicle and retrieves a blanket. At this point you are still not sure what he is going to do ... is he going to wrap the body up and dispose of it.
As the film then later moves onto reveal that the female was screaming because she was giving birth.
The whole sequence leading up to the revelation gets you in the mood of feeling scared and wanting to know what is happening. And of course the title "Lovefield" gives it away after you realise that it is actually a happy film.
This is very effective in getting the audience worried and scared, but makes them relieved when they found out the whole truth.
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