Rooty Toot Toot is a short film which depicts the court case of Frankie and Johnny, in which Frankie is accused of murdering Johnny after he had an affair with another woman. The film is a visual retelling of classic Jazz song ‘Frankie and Johnny’, the film uses parallels with the genre of jazz to represent each character within the film. For example, the judge and his gavel are represented by percussion instruments, the bartender is represented through the clarinet etc. The film uses the connotations of these instruments in order to characterise each person using the connotations carried with the jazz instruments, for example the judge can be seen as powerful with the use of booming percussive instruments, the bartender may come across as untrustworthy with the use of the clarinet. Even the film’s title mirrors the musical origins of the story, as “Rooty Toot Toot” is imitative of a trumpet noise. The film also features the use of colour in order to create running themes within the film. With each retelling of the murder we witness a new perspective on the events, this is reflected through the association of colours to specific characters. Frankie is represented by the colour red, Nelly is represented through the colour blue, showing that the characters oppose one another as blue and red are opposites on the colour spectrum. As Nelly tells her story, depicting Frankie as a murderer, we see the events represented using cold, dark blue colours. When Frankie’s lawyer Johnathan (represented through the colour white) retells a fictionalised version of events where Frankie is innocent, we see the scenery and even Frankie represented as white. This is important as the colour white has connotations of purity which coincide with the lawyer’s argument. This use of colours is returned to when the jury reach a verdict, as they rule not guilty. After this moment, the colour pallet turns red (Frankie’s colour) showing that she is victorious. However, as Frankie resorts to murdering her lawyer in front of the jury, the courtroom changes blue. This represents how it was in fact Nelly’s telling of events are in fact the truth and Frankie is a murderer.