This is a linear narrative, kept simplistic to allow it to be understood by a younger target audience.

It centres on a very simple debate and thus is very easy to portray silently. The storyline is very basic and instead relies of music, body language and facial expression to explain the narrative. It leads to an increased use of facial close ups to capture characters reactions. This is a convention of silent films, but also short films in general as time for extensive narrative complexities is limited. The film begins with screechy discordant music and pictures of medieval scenery and a man who is part of a one man band. The font of the title is made up of instruments, which foreshadows what the short film will be about. There is midrange shot of closed red curtains connoting a big performance or a show. The curtains open to reveal the man shown in the opening credits of the film. He is large and jovial looking, which shows that he has a good life and isnt lacking in what he needs. He appears to be the protagonist of the short as he is dressed in red and yellow. There is diegetic sound of the man playing a tune. He looks around, bored, and the scenery appears to be a medieval era, in a Mediterranean country, due to it being set in a piazza. He looks down at his empty dish of money, to connote to the audience that he wishes to earn some money and he hasnt been doing so recently. A close up of the man, with a very long shot of him in the market place accentuates the idea of desolation. A point of view shot is used when the camera swivels around the square, then focuses and centres on a young girl walking up to the water fountain in order to make a wish. The music speeds up and gets more fast-paced and becomes more rushed, to symbolise his desperation in earning some money. An eye-line match was used when the musician first spots the young girl. This, in itself, conveys how he almost targets her, seeing as she is his only audience: his attention is solely focused on her. The girl looks as if she is poor as she has quite a grubby face and her appearance and her face looks very modest and humble. The fact that she is so young connotes her innocence and her naivety in wanting to give the stranger some money. The mans eyes light up when he spots her gold coin, showing the audience how greedy he is. He starts to play a more joyous tune, in order to win over the young girls money. She looks very happy at such a simple delight, and makes her way to give it to him. The shot interchanges between him and her in order to show their reactions, and he urges her to give him the coin, handing out his hat and raising his eyebrows at her. Suddenly, another man appears from the other side of the square. He is angular and very skinny, and could appear to be an antagonist due to the fact that he is dressed in purple and green. He begins to play and lay out his stage in an equally overdramatic fashion. On the first appearance of the other man, the cinematography does not initially show his face first. We see an ambiguous hand unroll a poster and then strum on a lyre. This, perhaps, add to the enigma of the character, representing him as sneaky and threatening. The two men ensue in a heated bid to win the gold coin, with many fast paced jump cuts in between the two, with the camera also swivelling towards the girl. As the competition for the girls attention becomes fiercer, the duration of each shot decreases, which causes the action to speed up and the tension to increase. Eventually, the situation escalates to the point where the original musician and protagonist of the piece fall over in an attempt to gain her coin. The climax of the film occurs when the two competing musicians play so loudly each trying to outdo the other, that the cacophony makes the girl put her hands over her ears, dropping the coins down a drain in doing so. The coin dropping down the drain is

diegetic, as is when the bag of money is dropped. This emphasises how the driving force of the competition is money, this progression makes the events more panicky, tense, and it ensures the narrative adheres to Todorovs narrative theory. This further symbolises to the audience their greed; especially as they would take money from a poor young girl. After demanding that one of the men give her a coin to compensate and finding that neither have any money, she takes one of the musicians violins. Initially she screeched the bow along the strings, which was used in order to hint towards that she cannot play when in fact we find out she can play extremely well. Outside of the frame, a hand drops a large bag of gold coins in front of the girl as she plays. Taking two coins out of the bag, it looks as though she is going to give the men some money. At the very last minute, she throws the coins into the fountain, at the mens despair.

This is a linear narrative, kept simplistic to allow it to be understood by a younger target audience. It centres on a very simple debate and thus is very easy to portray silently. The storyline is very basic and instead relies of music, body language and facial expression to explain the narrative. It leads to an increased use of facial close ups to capture characters reactions. This is a convention of silent films, but also short films in general as time for extensive narrative complexities is limited.