I came into Creative Media a few weeks into the term. I had never done film making and I didn’t know any of the film elements or what a dolly was or what a DP is. I quickly learned that I needed to know this for the assignment. I found the sheets on blackboard very helpful as they cut the essay into little parts that you could work on at a time. I also had to do some extra research to understand the elements of film making better. There was 2 parts to the assignment and I couldn’t complete some parts of part A as I wasn’t there at the time, this was a problem. By completing analytical essay and learning the film-terminology I am now finding out that while watching films I sub-consciously analyze them. During the essay I discovered that a topic sentence is very important to catch the reader’s attention. I had known what I topic sentence was before the essay but I hadn’t known it’s important. By doing extra research on the film terminology I got a better understanding of it and I think I was able to complete an ‘ok’ analytical essay. I was quite happy with my essay, I tried hard and I think I filled out all of the criteria and I wouldn’t change it as it was my first assignment from being in Creative Media. If I was to start again I might have possibly chosen a different genre and scene to do for the essay.
Reflection/evaluation:
Brainstorming for Short Film
Possible Genres:
comedy
action
horror
faerie-tale
Possible ideas
reverted faerie-tale - step-sister point of view of Cinderella
comedy - a normal picnic gone wrong involves magpies
action - assassin that is hired to kill and then gets chased
horror - holiday that turns horribly wrong when their cabin turns out to have...
6 Elements always in a Fairytale
- Handsome Hero
- Damsel in distress
- twinkling sound effects
- a childish villain
- romance
- evil forest
- castle/nobility
Film Analysis of Aviator scene (sound and editing)
The sound and editing used in the Aviator scene made it more dramatic. The scene that was watched was where the new speed record was set. The editing of the scene was good, the use of different shots made the suspense even stronger. There was a large amount of panning involved and there were several different shots being repeated, such as the shot where you see the plane compared to the huge mountain. In this clip there wasn't much dialogue as he was mainly concentrating on trying to fly the plane. But there were great sound- effects that were the noises the plane made.