Grading Past Students

This filming opening sequence is a good example I think of a C Grade piece of work. They had a good use of sound throughout the clip but think failed in the creativity of the piece of work. They didn't use a good understanding for Mise-en-Scene. Location wise wasn't very creative, only doing it local doesn't give a good atmosphere and help set up the genre. You can understand what they were trying to do but there camera work was very basic, using only pans and tracking mostly. Shows very basic understanding of how a thriller film is made, and how big a part the opening sequence is.




Now this opening I believe would be a B Grade. It also has a good use of foley and the camera work is a lot better. They've made a better attempt for mise-en-scene, they've thought more in the location and lighting of the and aspects of how a thriller is made. This unlike the C Grade clip makes us as the audience ask questions about it, what was in the envelope? Who was the girl? Stuff like this makes us question it and thats what a thriller films are there to do. Apart from that this group have taken in all the aspects of mise-en-scene and created a good piece of work.




Finally this clip I think deserves an A Grade, as the way they have edited it and put the music and then the over lay of there voices was good. It gave them a good advantage over the other 2. The use of text when editing gave the clip a professional look about it, the lighting made it more like a thriller film. It did lack a bit of dialogue but other than that was a very good opening, it didn't give to much away but did give us a few questions to ask.