- Mise en Scene - location, costumes, props
- Editing - pace
- Shots - shot types, shot angles, tracking, panning
- Narrative - what is the storyline? Is there one? A message?
- Representation - The talent/ actor
1. About A Girl
Script driven, which focuses on one character and her view on her life.
Very powerful message about teenage pregnancy.
Walking along the canal with extracts to support what she is saying.
Shaky camera - when she is walking, which makes the audience feel that they are walking with her.
Use of aerial shots.
Set in Manchester on a housing estate.
2. Boy In A Bicycle
By Ridley Scott who also directed Prometheus.
Uses a rotating camera, which suggests confusion.
The location is set in a boy's bedroom.
It is black and white and there is only light coming in from the window.
This short film explores camera angles and it does not follow a traditional eyeline.
Ridley Scott can take risks as he only has to keep the audience's attention for a short time.
3. Dear Phone
By Peter Greenaway.
Incorporates text and images.
I found it a bit boring as the editing was very slow and they were also too long.
The text came up on screen so that people can read and listen to what she is saying.
4. Dooblebug
It is a 3 minute clip.
Its by C. Nolan.
Eerie music and use of shadow suggests horror narrative.
Made in 1997.
It is filmed in black and white although it did not have to be, as colour was available.
5. Telling Lies
This short film is 4 minutes long.
By Simon Ellis in 2000.
No camera angles.
Just text showing what they were saying and what they were thinking.
The use of different colours for each character and the difference between what they are thinking and saying makes it easier to understand, as the audience does not see the characters.
6. Joy Ride
By Jim Gillespie who also produced 'I know what you did last summer'.
BFI, Channel 4 and The Scottish Production Fund were involved.
Eerie music which raises tempo.
Dark and only the lights from the car.
Raining - these codes and conventions suggest a strong horror narrative.
Extreme close ups.
Fades to black.
Don't always see the action but you can hear what is going on - this makes it scarier as as it is left to your imagination.
Don't always see the action but you can hear what is going on - this makes it scarier as as it is left to your imagination.
Actor in a confine space.
7. Uk Images
By Martin Parr
Slow editing pace
A modern day actuality.
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