Filming Openings Analysis

A-level students film opening analysis

"Alone"

All shots were included and were of good quality. All the small things within the genre were there, this made the genre really easy to identify because the small things gave away the genre subtle. This gave their movie a very professional look. The sound was very subtle, but this was quite effective because it created an ambient atmosphere. The groups acting wasn't very good according to our teacher. So they played to their strengths by giving the actors a small amount of dialect instead of huge speeches.

"Luna"
All shots were of good quality and included shots like "shot reverse shot" and "match on action". I personally thing that the montage for the moving opening was a really good idea. This made this film opening look very professional because a montage is something a professional film would do. Plus having  montage is a little bit risky because they are hard to pull off, but I feel that this group lulled it off well.

"Poscig"

"Poscig" is a polish film. I felt like this group pulled it off well. I have never seen at polish film before, but I feel like if a saw one it would be something like that. All the actors seemed to speak decent polish and it came across as if they were polish. They also used polish movie productions at the start. This added to the Mise en scene and helped pull off the effect of it being a polish film. The subtitles seem to work well with the speech and it gives you enough time to read the text as well. The screen play also went well with the music. The music added to the intensity of the action.

"The Last Run"
This film was a little bit generic! It had a women running around a forest and there was a dark coated figure following her. "Pete Fraser" (he came in and did a talk about what to stay away from when making our media project) during his talk he said to stay away from running away from a dark figure. apparently this is too generic and will not score well. Although, I felt that the sound went really well with the camera shots. The sound really added to the intensity of  the chase. The titles looked quite basic, they didn't look like professional movie titles. I feel like this would of lost them a lot of marks.

"Creeping Shadows"
I feel that this film again was a little generic. The camera angles within the film were amazing. I think they had good use of light and it gave the audience a good perspective of the scene. Also, I think the sound went really well with the intensity of the scene. The main thing that let this group down was costume. The black figure (bad guy) Was just wearing a suit and a mask. Personally I feel that they could of added makeup to the villain and could of made his costume more eccentric. This would of really improved their movie opening.

"The Visitor"
This movie opening was amazing. There was great use of camera angles and light. Also I like the way they used sound bridges for the titles. This integrated the titles well into the scene. Makeup was also really good. The girl in white had long nails, scary face paint and a ripped white dress. This added to the Misen scene and gave us the effect of a ghost or demon. I thought their work looked amazing, but it looked more like a trailer, than a movie opening. The group would get marked down because if this.


Mark Scheme

Level 1 0–23 marks The work for the main task is possibly incomplete. There is minimal evidence in the work of the creative use of any relevant technical skills such as:• Producing material appropriate for the target audience and task; • using titles appropriately according to institutional conventions; • using sound with images and editing appropriately for the task set;• shooting material appropriate to the task set; including controlled use of the camera, attention to framing, variety of shot distance and close attention to mise-en-scene; • using editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer and making selective and appropriate use of shot transitions and other effects. Level 2 24–35 marks There is evidence of a basic level of ability in the creative use of some of the following technical skills:• Producing material appropriate for the target audience and task; • using titles appropriately according to institutional conventions; • using sound with images and editing appropriately for the task set;• shooting material appropriate to the task set;, including controlled use of the camera, attention to framing, variety of shot distance and close attention to mise-en-scene; • using editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer and making selective and appropriate use of shot transitions and other effects. Level 3 36–47 marks There is evidence of proficiency in the creative use of many of the following technical skills:• Producing material appropriate for the target audience and task; • using titles appropriately according to institutional conventions; • using sound with images and editing appropriately for the task set;• shooting material appropriate to the task set; including controlled use of the camera, attention to framing, variety of shot distance and close attention to mise-en-scene; • using editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer and making selective and appropriate use of shot transitions and other effects.Level 4 48–60 marksThere is evidence of excellence in the creative use of most of the following technical skills:• material appropriate for the target audience and task;• using titles appropriately according to institutional conventions;• using sound with images and editing appropriately for the task set;• shooting material appropriate to the task set;including controlled use of the camera, attention to framing, variety of shot distance and close attention to mise-en-scene;• using editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer and making selective and appropriate use of shot transitions and other effects.
 
(I copied this off the school media blog (http://www.gbhsas2015.blogspot.co.uk/))

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