Evaluation supporting video clips - Part 1

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Evaluation Screening for "Blank" - Feedback

-What did you like?

·        -Sound was good

·        -Sound track was really good

·        -Jump scare at the end

·        -Camera angles- close-ups and canted angles

·        -The wobble effect when blank shows up

·        Good soundtrack

·        -Wide variety of shots

·        -Good font effects

·        -Heartbeat works well

·        -Good jumps

·        -Heart pulse is good

·        -Inter-title font is good

·        -Good jumps

·        -Wobble effect

·        -Good camera angles and use of music

·        -Special fx are good

·        -The music changes were great – real horror feel

·        -Sound fx were really well done

·        -Really cool font

·        -Collision cuts were awesome

·        -Really cool villain

·        -Really like the backing heartbeat

·        -The music x2

·        -Slenderman/ Blank

-What needs to be improved?

·        -More horror aspects

·        -The inter-title text font

·        -More conventions

·        -Lack of low key lighting

·        -Slender in the road – didn't really make sense

·        -More horror conventions – make the screen darker

·        -Voices are too quiet x 3

·        -Too high key

·       - Don’t understand plot of going to the woods – not enough narrative to explain, inter-titles needed x 2

·        -Would have worked better at night

·        -Quick dialogue

·        -The new blurry effect doesn't work as well

-Scores-

10

9.9

9

9

9

8

8

7

7

7

6

Avg = 8.172

"Blank" Final Cut

"Blank" Final Cut - Alternate Cut

"Blank" Focus Group

Favourite Image Analysis

This is my favourite image analysis from the move The Descent (2005). I favour this image over many as I feel it presents a lot of the horror conventions that help to make a movie scary. The shot/scene is done in night vision; this immediately makes the whole thing a lot creepier, as it taps into one of the very famous phobias experienced by many, fear of the dark. The lighting and colour created by this helps the characters, in particular the monsters of the film, look a lot grubbier and horrible, connoting the deep ‘mess’ that they’ve gotten themselves into. The canted angle done by the camera gives an unsettling effect for the viewer to see. This unsettling effect helps prepare the audience for the jump scare that is then presented in the scene, making it far scarier. The image also includes both horror conventions of a monster, and also a female victim.