Past Student Anaylsis

Past Student Video – Longroad Media

Can you illustrate the elements, which make the sequence an opening?

It starts with a character sleeping and starts moving around quite viciously, then changes to some swings in black and white. This connotes that there is some mystery and enigma to the start of this opening. As this looks a thriller/ horror, there are some elements such as sound and visuals.

Analyse the four micro areas of the opening in relation to genre?

In sound, you can tell straight away what genre it is as there are visuals of a swing and making some screeching noises as well as I believe faint screams. The audience will understand straight away that it is a horror, because of the audio on display. There also is a character they’re, with a teddy bear also suggesting that the girl is perhaps lost and with the mixture of sounds making it a horror. In editing, there is slow motion on the swings, which perhaps is building up the tension and the slowness of the two characters walking. The costumes are normal so there is also a sense of realism in the opening and not many props were used, which traditionally is irregular.

Using marking criteria also give the opening a level of grade and explain why you think the sequence deserves this particular grade.

I would give this past student video a weak B grade, because it firstly has good sound which resembles it as a good horror opening, however there is limited props and making this a sort of paranoid horror. The ending is very good as the character sleeping wakes up and the audience realises it was a dream and that the opening is in fact a horror. The sequence gets a little dull when the characters are walking as they walk for about 30 seconds, which makes the video weak, but overall quite solid.