Assessing Past Coursework

Film titles, intertextualty with scream (Wes Craven, 1996)
The sound over their title sounds like a childrens toy adn uses a few different layers of music.

It starts with long drawn out notes and one of the openig shots is filmed behind some branches.
This connotes a point of view shot.
They use a false scare near the beginning of the opening. They also have interetextual references with the omen.

They use an elipses to fade out into the next shot. They use signifiers like the girly room, pink room and features. Quite a lot of shot variation. Dialogue is useful for exposition. To sometimes get away from wooden acting they could have used cutaway shots. A bra is thrwon over the box to imply sexual activity, they use a cutaway shot to do this. They use 'female gaze' here. A good shot is to put the camera i the cupboard before someone opens it. Some of the action could be better synced.

 After hearing the bang they could of used a number of other shots like a whip tilt , or at least a lot more shot variety. Mise-en-scene is used by the use of fake blood. An elipses probably shouldn't have been used here as it would have been more realistic to see the boy running up hte staairs. Needed more shot variation when he finds her dead in the bath.






The white font on the black background signifies realism.  The audience would know that the drink in his hand means he is going to be a victim. They use 'in association with'. They show the shakey point of view shot to signify he is drunk. The shot from behind the trees signifies that soeone is watching him.  Not much justification for the elipses after the violence. Good mise-en-scene with the blood effect in te snow. All you see of the killer is feet and legs, this is good use of narrative enigma.

The effect used is trying to signify CCTV. Good blood effect on the side of the face. They used layering to make it look like they had more shots. The sound of the rattle of the chain works well. The camera position should be the other way round to signify the power that the character has. Couple of references to psycho at the end.







The titles are animated and the font and transitions are well thought through. The diegetic sound is lacking when it goes back into the house. This breaks the verisimilitude. Bit of a reference to scream like they use the popcorn, theree is a kettle in this.