Helping to understand the criteria

So on Friday we had a lesson on evaluating other thriller openings, I thought overall this was a useful lesson due to the fact that it gave us an idea as to what was required for the grade we aim to achieve and gave us more of an understanding on the criteria given. I felt that the A grade video was very successful as it had lots of focus pulls making it more mysterious and the camera skills being more experienced, this clip also contained material which was appropriate for the target audience and task as it created a lot of tension giving an idea that its a thriller, I felt that this clip had a lot of control on the setting and what was in the frame as everything looked planned, and nothing out of place not breaking the mise-en-scene they aimed for, it was clear they wanted to create a more rural idea to the clip in which was met.  I also really liked the use of the voice over as it gave an edge to the video and broke up any awkwardness that the audience may have experienced if there was other sounds or dialogue, as it was on a beach, the noise of the waves may have made it difficult to understand what was said from the microphone of the camera picking up background noises so the use of a voice over went well with the setting.

I felt that one of the clips we were shown which was a C grade did meet the requirements as it used sound with images and editing appropriately and that they used appropriate titles, However, I think that it didn’t meet the task set, as it was meant to be a horror, it didn’t create any tension, it seemed more like a comedy, I think that if they filmed at night time and made the dialogue more clearer by having voice over’s instead of using the microphone on the camera due to the fact that there was a lot of background i.e. wind and cars, then maybe it would’ve cause more tension making it less funny for the audience as that wasn’t the aim of the clip.