“Be Right Back” Scene Analysis

Watch and rewatch (and rewatch) your table’s assigned scene from the “Be Right Back” episode of Black Mirror. As a group, analyze the scene in terms of narrative themes and motifs, but also pay attention to the scene’s formal properties: camera angles, lighting, color palette, diegetic and nondiegetic sound, and so on. Try to pin down how the production of the scene contributes to its meaning and effect.

Here are the scenes: