Wednesday, 1 February 2012

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What connotations does the title of the film ‘Splintered Kin’ convey?

Answers:

‘A broken family with problems’

‘Separated from family’

‘Broken family’

‘A fractured family relationship’


2. What codes and conventions of the thriller genre are conveyed through the opening sequence?

Answers:

‘Darkness and murder’

‘Mystery, death, killing’

Mystery, dark, location’


3. What narrative features are present?


Answers:

‘Death is shown as a narrative’

Mystery’

‘Death, a murder’

‘Murder’

4. How effectively do the camera angles and movement create meaning?

Most popular answer: 2/3

Most effective?



‘First shot was good’

‘Long shot’

‘When the victim is being killed’

‘Arial shot’



What camera angle/movement could be improved and how?



‘Steady the camera, too shaky’

‘Ariel shot’

‘Add more close-ups and panning’


1. How effective is the sound in creating meaning?

Most popular answer: 1/2 (we haven’t finished the soundtrack)



What is the most effective sound?

‘Trains/cars’

‘Cars, busy noises’

‘Traffic’



What diegetic and non-diegetic sound could be improved?



‘Cut out voices’

‘Stop talking when recording’

‘Lots of wind in the background’

‘Just add sound’



How successful is the editing of sound in the opening sequence?



‘No sound to edit, average’

‘Poor’

‘Quiet, voices leave it less effective’

 
2. How effectively does the mise-en-scene create meaning?

Most popular answer: 2/3



Best use of mise-en scene?



‘The tunnel setting’

‘Pictures/papers’

‘Pictures’

‘The phone call’



What is the most effective piece of mise-en-scene?

‘Google pictures’

‘The lighting in the underpass’

‘The tunnel’

‘Pictures/paper’



1. How does editing create meaning?



Best use of editing?

‘It was fast cuts’ (creates meaning)

‘Black and white’

‘After pictures/paper’



What edit is used in the most effective way?

‘After pictures/paper’

‘Black and white’

2. How are the characters presented? Did they fit in with the chosen Thriller convention? (Crime)

     
How are they presented in terms of Vladimir Propp?

‘Not very clear’

‘Good’

‘Victim, villain’

3. How effective is the location in setting the scene for our film?

    

Could the location be improved? ‘The noise’, ‘Yes’

What was effective about the location? ‘Bridge’ ‘isolated’

Does it help to create tension? ‘Yes’

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