Assessing Past Coursework

Assessing Past Coursework

Scream title used - a good strong intertextual link - post modern theory suggests that its impossible to do anything original.
Kids toy used in the sound effects the idea is to try and mess with the phisiolgy therefore messing with the audiences psychology. Long drawn out notes used.
Framing includes the branches which connotes the POV of somebody hiding plus gives the option to include a hand to bring the branches down. False scare nice and early and thats always a good idea in a slasher movie, another intertextual reference used from the omen. An illipsis (where you cut out time) is signified by the fade to black and the fade back in. Mise on scene helps to signify that she is a young girl. Also a dutch angle is going on. Dialogue is very useful for exposition (providing background information to the audience) Could use a variety of shots such as a cut away shot when opening her gift. Includes two ellipsis in very small detail. you could argue that a female gaze theory is used, think about the female audience when doing male representations. Needs much greater shot variation. Mise en scene for the blood in the bath is good though the sequence should be real time even though it was shot or edited with an ellipsis, which wasn't needed. Over reliant on the coverage shot the two shot is over used. Need a huge amount of shot variety for killing scenes.

Underground:



Low resolution to start with. So were getting notes coming through in the titles realism is signified. Simple detail but significant because he has a bottle of alcohol in his hand and booze/sex/drugs all signify that your dead. Shake affect used to signify drunkness form the POV shot because the young man is drunk. Nicely framed character walking into the shot, someones watching is being signified when walking up the path. The violence is odd and there is digetic sound missing. Use of faster paced music coming in to the shot, although bits of the sound mix are missing which is poor. Good example of narrative enigma yes we should have seen violence but by seeing the legs and feet not anchoring wether its male or female is good narrative enigma. An effect is used to signify CCTV which may make sense if they reduced the shot size which is quite conventional when shooting CCTV. Again there is a good blood effect used however it looks weak with the editing, not enough footage. Fault of directing. Needed much faster paced shots mise en scene is nice though with the chain and the digetic sound. Psycho reference at the end. Fundamental prop was that there was not enough shot.

Red Run:



Flaw is no digetic sound if the sound is screwed up just go back and re-record sound. Varisimlitude (achieving realism) in a prime drama you would want a police uniform, car ect. Also reference to scream is used, popcorn is put on a hot ring at the beginning to built the tension as it rises, several connotations as it reflects and creates tension at the same time. Sexual symbolism as well as the bag gets bigger, and there is a post modern context as in the cinema they would be eating popcorn the approach is ironic.