Monday 14 February 2011

analysing past students video

Marking Criteria


- Holding a shot steady, where appropriate
- Framing a shot including and excluding elements
- Using a variety of shot distances as appropriate
- Shooting material appropriate to the task
- Selecting mise-en-scene including colour, figure, lighting etc.
- Editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer
- Using varied shot transitions and effects
- Using sound with images
- Using titles appropriately




This clip was enjoyable to watch because of the effectiveness of the micro elements used. The shot where they were filming the news reporter was very accurate to news which we actually see on TV. This is due to the fact they hold the shot steady. They frame the shot including the important elements which relate to what they're talking about, which is the news reporter and the setting of the terrorist attack. This is helpful to the audience because it gives a rough idea of where the situation at hand is happening. There were a variety of shot distances and angles which determined the position of characters, for example, where the antagonists were running around the building, they were shown at a low angle with a close up, this is significant to the viewer because it shows who's in control, and at this point, it's the antagonists.This is the same as the hostages, they're shown at a mid shot, which shows the audience the amount of hostages. The material within the clip is all appropriate to the task because it shows a sophisticated plot. The plot is that twenty-one hostages need rescuing. Although the plot is given away so early, it is effective for the audience because it gets them thinking how they're going to save the hostages. The mise-en-scene is really effective in this clip, especially the colour. This is where it cuts from the news to the hostage scene. The news is in colour and in daylight, whereas the action scenes of the clip were in black and white. I found this effective because it could convey the idea of what could be that they're doing it like a split screen, where they show the news report footage, opposed to the scenes on black and white. They also edited the shots really well so the storyline made sense to the audience, and they done this by cutting from the news report part then showing the bits in black and white, and this was good because it made the footage more fluent. This is because the news reporter would explain to the audience what was happening, then the black and white scenes would show what he was talking about.

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