Wednesday 22 February 2012

Year12 Trailer review
Production: Outsider
Genre: Horror

The plot of the trailer is that the female protagonist is harassed by a group of boys and gets tortured by their horrible verbal comments. She doesn't have the audacity to fight back which leads her to be raped by the group of boys, which is indicated by when the screen fades to black, and eventually dies. She then comes back as a ghost to take revenge on each one of them by killing them in their homes.
The use of non-diegetic sound eg. when the protagonist (as a ghost) appears to one of the character is effective in revealing the genre of the move.The instant shot eg. when one of the boys gets dragged into the room, the use of fast pace was extremely dramatic as it was instantly done. Expressions on the actors' faces were equally effective eg. the expressions on the female protagonist was very powerful, aggressive and violent. However, the expressions on the boys' faces were more terrfied, and frightened which indicates that something bad is going to happen to them. The female protagonist's hair covered her face  which could connote sense of enigma or mystery which again is the content of a horror movie.

www: They have used iconographies really effectively which clearly gives out the genre
          Good use of instant fast pace shots
Ebi :    If they had used more camera angles like close ups, long shots, panning, point of view shots etc

Year13 music video review
Production: I hate love Yousra Khaled

The plot of the music video is that the female lead and her boyfriend are happily in love and living their life but then a tragedy occurs when her boyfriend decieves her. She discusses this to her friend who suggests her to leave him and she throws him out of the house.
The main genre of this music video is relationship/love and break-up
The genre is identified by the lyrics of the song " I hate love"
Some of the scenes are flashbacks of her life and her good times with her boyfriend which is one of the common content of love genre. There are various types of shots used eg medium shot- when the girl is distressed, Long Shot- when her and her friend throws her boyfriend out of the house.

www: good use of camera shots
ebi: more iconographies

No comments:

Post a Comment