Friday, 8 January 2016

Textual Analysis of a students work

I found a good video from past people from OCR media weebly, it is called The Edge, and it was a level 4 piece.

It being set in empty car park, gives the production a sense of mystery. Which is good for our genre, although it is not horror or thriller. We see the protagonist, in day to day teenage clothes. This shows a sense of innocence. The antagonists are wearing suits and sunglasses, this is usual convention of action genre. There are also 2 of the antagonists, which again  is typical of villains during this genre's films. This shows that the film would have been action. The chase scene involved also shows that this would most likely be a action film.
There was non-diegetic music played throughout, I thought this was a really good way to start the film, although I feel that there was too little script. But i also like how you don't hear the people breathing although there is running, and physical activity.
During this 2 minute clip, there were certain stuff that I thought they did very good. The placement of the credits were very good, and I feel that it will help us place ours. They put the credits on plane walls, and the colour of the credits where dark but very subtle. I thought that the placement of the edits is why the piece got a such a good grade, I feel that the producer of the film clip did a lot of research on to the placement of them in the action conversions. I also like how the conventions of the antagonist in the clip were wearing black suits and looked very smart, the smartness look of the antagonist gave away that they were on a task as the setting of the film looked like it wasn't common to see people dressed like that to be there. I also like how he used the unconventional idea of having the protagonist using skates to get away, usually in action films in public places the way people escape the antagonist is usually running or in a car or by a motor bike. I feel that thee roller skates was him putting his own twist on action genre and that he wanted to give the audience something new to keep them interested as if the film is too similar to another then the audience may be become bored or uninterested as they may feel as though they have seen the film before.


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