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Final Evaluation

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  Final Evaluation My short film mood focuses around a main character who has trouble regulating their emotions on their own, so they have to use pills in order to help stabilise specific emotions. However, as the film progresses, the main character starts to slip as the effect of the pills become short-lived and cause the protagonist to slip back into negative emotions. The brief in which I have chosen to follow is a narrative twist. This requirement of the brief is met in the last seconds of my short film where the main character comes across another person who seems to be the same as them, and the scribbles across their face fades. My short film pulls influence from a variety of other short films I have studied such as: The Swimmer and The Grandmother in terms of sound, High Maintenance in terms of narrative structure, and other films outside of the specification to help inform my creative decisions. mood loosely reflects Todorov's narrative structure much like other short ...
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Revision

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  Revision Autumn 2020 - Component 2 Section D Discuss how either editing or cinematography contribute to the experimental nature of your film option [20] Editing Cinematography For storytelling - Each story has a title card to signpost it Interaction of spectators - e.g Mia overdose and Vincent drives her, the camera feels like its on top of her head as the characters are confused - POV from Mia’s perspective - creates rush, intensity, no time to spare - very visceral for spectator Episodic editing for each sequence Lighting - many violent moments take place in the light of day - e.g diner sequences; weird scene in the pawn shop during the day, but the setting is low key - lighting techniques in relation to time of day Editing in relation to non-chronological sequencing e.g diner sequence at start/end Disorientating and time-restrictive - restricted narrative - creates abstract and absurd humour Editing contributes to themes and dev...
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Tarantino as an Auteur

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Tarantino as an Auteur  Auteur 1. A director who takes a hold of all aspects of the filmmaking: their film form concept to direction  Idea - screenplay - directions/ lead camera/ editing - FULL ARTISTIC CONTROL ANALOGY - BOOK AUTHOR 2. Consistent qualities to be found throughout their work  For example: to cast particular actors across their films 3. To be an auteur - a sufficient body of work Film Auteurs A film director who has a considerable body of film work Has established a distinctive and recognisable style of work which can be identified in: themes, genre-based approached, technical elements (use of lighting; particular shots, style of editing), working with specific actors For example: Fincher uses Film Noir elements - shadows, lighting, colour, dark themes; Hitchcock - POV, cameos, thriller/psychological genre; Jane Campion- films with female leads feminist approaches, themes around women and marginality  Tarantino is an auteur because: His recognisable exp...
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Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994)

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Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994) Section D Close study of single form Key elements of film form Context Representation Experimental film - Additional specialist area Experimental Film Experimental films resist conventional narrative structures Familiar narrative structure? - equilibrium (Todorov 3 act structure) Cause and effects Representation of time is linear or chronological  (Classical Hollywood narrative - Linear/Conventions/3 act structure - ‘Hollywood Kiss’) Storytelling - experimental film and cinema is about new ways of telling the story Single Stranded - Convention/Expectation Experimental film offer more than one storyline - Multi-stranded “Honey Bunny & Pumpkin” Launches the spectator straight into the ‘narrative’ Dialogue is ‘everyday’ stuff - just before they plan to rob the coffee shop Voices, being nice - then her voice changes (Compare with the moment where Jules says he and Vincent need to ‘get into character’) Normalises characters - we never see this sid...
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Short Film Evaluation

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Short Film Evaluation  Must be between 1600 and 1800 words Make reference to short films - Make reference to cinematic influences (professional produced not short film based) Narrative structure of the short film, Cinematic influence, Creating meaning and effect How the short films informed your production Writing the Evaluative Analysis A sample structure for the Evaluative Analysis is outlined below. This can be reproduced and given to students. A copy in handout form is available on the Digital Resources section of the Edugas website, Short Introduction: Include a brief synopsis/outline of your film idea What did you want to create in terms of style, genre and narrative? PART 1: Narrative Structure of the short film This section should feature an analysis of all the short films you have studied from the list of set texts outlined within the Specification and how these informed your own production. Please note you do not have to talk about all the films researched equally bu...
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