Catfish Scene Deconstruction 1

Editing

• As Angela lists all the characters she created on facebook, a collage of facebook profile pictures appears over the long shot of Angela and Nev in the background. These images contrast with the camera angle as we can see both her and her fake identities. By doing this, it also gives as a more visual amount of how many people she could create on facebook, showing us how easy the internet makes things such as this today.

Sound

• When Nev asks how Angela kept track of all her fake identities she responded with this diegetic piece of dialogue: “luckily it was on facebook and I could go back and re-read it.”
• The diegetic dialogue from Nev: “How many people where there?” followed by Angela’s reply: “A lot” shows us that technology makes it easy to invent not only one fake identity, but many, and fool people about who you truly are for such a long period of time.
• As each profile picture appears on the screen while Angela makes her list, there is the non diegetic sound of a mouse click. This emphasis the involvement of a computer to access these facebook pictures in the first place.

Camera Angles

• A long shot is used to show us both Angela and Nev in the shot. This shows us the real life characters are meeting in person, as to their usual relationship where they communicated only through a piece of technology such as online or over the phone.

• Close up of Angela as she confesses all her techniques on how to keep up with her virtual life. This focus’ on her as one person, as opposed to her many other identities, and allows us to have a greater connection with her as she tells the story. We can see her face in more detail, showing she is comfortable and open about what she has done. This could resemble how people have a more blasé attitude to occurrences such as this on the internet, as it is believable in our modern society with the technology we are provided with.

Mise-en-Scene

• There are paintings scattered about the room, which shows the only real aspect of their relationship, as they bonded through the paintings she was sending them. This portrays that although, truly, they don’t even know each other, there is still that connection between them which has no link to technology, which was what caused them to have this fake perception of each other.