In this post I'm going to be commenting on 3 videos that are on our Robert Clack Media Studies you tube channel. All of the short films are 2 minutes long but all have different techniques, camera angles and techniques that they have used which makes all of them unique in their own way. The three that i am going to comment on are:-
-Finder's Keepers
-The Nightwalker
-You're Mine
First of all i think that i am going to comment on the film Finder's Keepers. Personally, i really like this film because it really follows the storyline of North By Northwest (which you can see in one of my other posts) because there is basically an innocent guy that gets falsely accused and ends up running for his life. One of the really good techniques that they used in the film with none of the other films i have watched used was a Red Herring. This technique is basically when hey make the audience think that something bad is going to happen and it turns out to be completely nothing. This was one of Albert Hitchcock's signature moves whenever he was making films. They also use very good camera angles in the film as if someone was watching the chase scene happen while the guy was running which gives it the real chase scene kind of feel. Also one of the last elements tat they used in the film that was good was when the guy decided to run underneath into the tunnel and then all you can see from the bad guys is their silhouette and then the ending of the film comes with the title. Out of the, i think i would give this a 9.5 because it has been filmed excellently, the angles are used correctly and one of Albert Hitchcock's signature techniques is in the film. I think that the only bad thing that let this down was the text and the end of the film. It was very plain, boring and didn't really look that appealing. I think that it was the plain Ariel font which isn't the most exciting font that they could have used.
Link to the Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGX_pag43XU&feature=plcp
Next is The Nightwalker. This isn't one of the best films that i have ever seen but it is one that uses some techniques really well. One of them is where the girl is running and the camera is bobbing up and down as if we were looking through her eyes and we can see what she sees. This is commonly used in thriller and horror films so that we get to feel and see what they see, or as Hitchcock said that we dip out toe into the cold water of fear to see what it feels like. Which is exactly how this thriller makes us feel. Another good technique that they used was when the girl was in the car and the bad guy was in the back of the car. It is the classic "He's behind you!!" part of the film which basically means when the audience knows more than the character in the film and which kind of gives all of the power to the audience. But on the other hand, some parts of this film is really confusing. Also after the guy got the girl, i like the way how they got the car to slowly back away from the car as a sign of basically saying that she is dead. Firstly, the part where the girl runs out of the house, i had so many questions. Why was she in the house? What has she got to do with the beginning credits? Why is the Nightwalker coming after her? So many questions... Finally the last thing that i have to say about this film is at the final scene where the guy gets the girl in the car, he magically happens to appear outside of the car and starts walking at the camera. Also another bad thing that i don't really think that they planned in the video was that it was really dark so you couldn't really see what was happening, of course you could see that she was running but everything was blurry in the background and honestly it didn't look that good. Really strange. Anyway, out of ten i think that i would give this film 7.1 because it has some of the typical features of becoming a good thriller but some parts of the film got lost along the way i think.
Link to the Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ43CqyqC24&feature=plcp
Lastly there is You're Mine. This thriller penning scene is the second most realistic out of all of the ones that i have talked about so far (Of course Finder's Keepers has to be first if you have watched the video) because instead of doing the film in total darkness like The Nightwalker, they done it in broad daylight and there was traffic going by which made it look a lot more realistic than the other films as there was ant other movement but the main characters. Also there is a mix of diegetic and non diegetic sound in this film because at the beginning the girl is probably shouting to her parents of siblings to say that she is leaving. Another good thing that they used in the film was the final shot when she was tied up in the chair, all that the audience and that she can see and hear is the basement door slowly opening with the obvious creaky sound. It id very effective because we know from watching precious horrors and thrillers that this sound is never good. Finally the only thing that i think lets this movie down is the background music. It doesn't fit in at all with the pace of the film and overall ruins the film i think.
Link to the Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEiEE6qC7YA&feature=plcp
Now to be honest i think that Finder's Keepers is the best out of all of the films that we have talked about above by far. But all of the other films do have good things in their own special way but Finder's Keepers crushes them all!! Just kidding...
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