Analysis of a project: E grade

Analysis of another student's E grade project

This project is titled 'Ring of Trees' and is a poor example of a final project. The titles which appear are in a serif font, on reverse block. However, the font of the titles are more horror themed, and appear very quickly without any complex transitions.

The titles presented in the E grade project.

They then proceed to use non diegetic music, which does add a sense of eeriness to the film. As well as this, straight cut editing is used to show the different aspects of the location to which they have filmed, however some shots are not held still or completely horizontal, which makes their film look unprofessional. A drone effect is then used when presenting the audience with the corridor, which is very smooth which does look professional and well executed, and fits with the non diegetic music which crescendos adding to the narrative enigma, creating suspense.

Drone effect is effective.

 However, the narrative then appears to become disconnected and disorganised. The actors appear to be just walking through the street, which doesn't create any kind of suspense and shows a lack of planning and imagination. When outside, the sound is muffled due to not using  the correct sound equipment  for the environment, and the lighting is so low resulting in the images looking grainy, again making the film look unprofessional. The lighting then becomes even darker, as the narrative enters night time. This could have been intentional, but they haven't used any studio lighting or different camera equipment, such as infrared cameras. This means they resulted in using a torch to enable the audience to see the characters faces, but again makes their film look very unprofessional.

The lighting is poor and the camera is unstable, therefore not smooth and easy for the audience to watch.

A good aspect of their film is that they do use a variety of camera shots, such as close ups, long shots, and establishing shots, however this alone will not get them a grade C or higher.

The clip analysed shown below: