Tuesday 8 April 2014

First analyses of student film done in the past

First Analyses of student film


The genre is made presumably a black comedy. The comedy becomes apparent throughout as the main characters first words are "shit" as she has woken up late this is funny as it is unexpected and is also scary as it is shocking. Later also through dialect we hear obvious connotations of the black comedy when poking fun at murderers "how do you know i'm not a serial killer" they then laugh to back this point up.
The narrative seems to be a Girl who's running late for school invites a serial killer to become her new flatmate, which presumably results in her death, this randomness added to a dark situation is representational of a black comedy.
The editing is simplistic and is therefore not that interesting, the titles are done wrong as put up like credits.
The song is a mainstream song that is illegal to use in such films without request first, however despite this the song suited the pieces silly, slapstick humour as it juxtaposed the fact their was a murderer about. Another effective use of sound was the lock, it was the most unsettling part of the clip connoting their was no escape really emphasising the BLACK comedy.
The camera angles where probably the best parts of the clip, i specificity liked the montage of close ups of normal day things like, the kettle heating up, or the toast popping as it connoted normality which would then be crushed by the killer being revealed. I also enjoyed the panning mid-shot to long-shot which helped set the movement to the piece connoting the rush.
Their isn't a intensively deep mis-en-scene consideration but their was some basic consideration such as props like the phone which was needed to check the time and the blooded towel which connoted death, the setting in a school or education centre was good as the set-up really did feel real and made sense to have the finding of her new flatmate their.
The titles where the worst part of the clip as they where only featured at the end like end movie credits, and also the plain white didn't really suit this piece, as it is to spontaneous it would had been more suited to have red coloured titles to connote the blood and show death, and to had the titles in a Victorian style just for the alienating look. The characters are shown reasonably well with a antagonist and protagonist, the protagonist is normal as connoted by her sequence of getting up, making mistakes of waking up late ect whilst the antagonist also as normal until her secret was revealed, we then see the scary side to this charactor as she locks the door.

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