First Film: Joy Ride
1. The genre of this sh
ort film is thriller, it uses many typical elements and conventions within this genre. Icons such as blood, weapons and the fact that it is all set at night with low key lighting all provide evidence for this with tense music and a gory twist at the end helping also.
2. Joy Ride uses its genre conventions uniquely throughout with its soundtrack and use of subjective camerawork. There is a lot of POV shots throughout the scene in which he finds himself in a car boot making it seem as if we (as a spectator) are there with him, this means we can sympathise with our character and feel his pain. The soundtrack used changes quite a bit using strong, leading instruments such as the Piano and the Drums to change the scene from being quite creepy and tense into one that has a lot of action involved. There is a lot of off screen sound used throughout the scene in which the police are attacked next to the car, this sound is diegetic and the fact that we can not see it puts us in the same position as our protaganist.
3. This film uses its short format in a way of keeping things restricted, not everything is told to us so immediately the audience finds themselves with a mystery and an enigma. The narrative is structured following the three act structure that is used in most films today, there is 'The Set Up', where we are introduced to our protaganist learning what he does for a living and that he is just about to finish work. 'The Confrontation' is where he comes across our two antaganists, this is where the disruption occurs. The middle part always holds the most story with a Resolution at the end showing our protaganist escape. What was also good to see at the end of this film though was a clever twist bringing our character back to the setting he started in at the beginning of the film, this is inspiring and i'm thinking about whether to include a ingenious twist at the end of my short film.
4. There is a lot of sound used in this film being both diegetic and non diegetic. The non diegetic tracks use strong, dominant instruments such as the Piano and the drums to create different moods. The piano is played in a minor tone creating a creepy mood with suspense, it is used similarly to the well known track named 'Tubular Bells' from 'The Exorcist' by Mike Oldfield. The drums are introduced in the scene in which our male protaganist tries to escape the car boot, these help to build tension and pace along with all the action that is occuring on screen. I find that the diegetic off screen sound is of most interest as it puts us in a subjective view alongside our character allowing us to sympathise for him.
5. The themes and issues shown within this short film are crime, kidnapping, murder and police. There are two thugs seen in the film wearing dark clothing connoting a dark and evil mood, we therefore immediately believe these are our antagonists. Our main character wears a light, white vest, being all on his own we can sympathise with him and feel sorry for him not having
any support from others. We do not know a lot about him or where he is going to creating an enigma, this restricted narration is good though adding to the suspense. There are no real stereotypes used within this piece, all characters are Scottish due to the setting and are working class.
1. The genre of this sh
ort film is thriller, it uses many typical elements and conventions within this genre. Icons such as blood, weapons and the fact that it is all set at night with low key lighting all provide evidence for this with tense music and a gory twist at the end helping also.2. Joy Ride uses its genre conventions uniquely throughout with its soundtrack and use of subjective camerawork. There is a lot of POV shots throughout the scene in which he finds himself in a car boot making it seem as if we (as a spectator) are there with him, this means we can sympathise with our character and feel his pain. The soundtrack used changes quite a bit using strong, leading instruments such as the Piano and the Drums to change the scene from being quite creepy and tense into one that has a lot of action involved. There is a lot of off screen sound used throughout the scene in which the police are attacked next to the car, this sound is diegetic and the fact that we can not see it puts us in the same position as our protaganist.
3. This film uses its short format in a way of keeping things restricted, not everything is told to us so immediately the audience finds themselves with a mystery and an enigma. The narrative is structured following the three act structure that is used in most films today, there is 'The Set Up', where we are introduced to our protaganist learning what he does for a living and that he is just about to finish work. 'The Confrontation' is where he comes across our two antaganists, this is where the disruption occurs. The middle part always holds the most story with a Resolution at the end showing our protaganist escape. What was also good to see at the end of this film though was a clever twist bringing our character back to the setting he started in at the beginning of the film, this is inspiring and i'm thinking about whether to include a ingenious twist at the end of my short film.
4. There is a lot of sound used in this film being both diegetic and non diegetic. The non diegetic tracks use strong, dominant instruments such as the Piano and the drums to create different moods. The piano is played in a minor tone creating a creepy mood with suspense, it is used similarly to the well known track named 'Tubular Bells' from 'The Exorcist' by Mike Oldfield. The drums are introduced in the scene in which our male protaganist tries to escape the car boot, these help to build tension and pace along with all the action that is occuring on screen. I find that the diegetic off screen sound is of most interest as it puts us in a subjective view alongside our character allowing us to sympathise for him.
5. The themes and issues shown within this short film are crime, kidnapping, murder and police. There are two thugs seen in the film wearing dark clothing connoting a dark and evil mood, we therefore immediately believe these are our antagonists. Our main character wears a light, white vest, being all on his own we can sympathise with him and feel sorry for him not having
any support from others. We do not know a lot about him or where he is going to creating an enigma, this restricted narration is good though adding to the suspense. There are no real stereotypes used within this piece, all characters are Scottish due to the setting and are working class.
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