Sunday, 29 September 2013

Comparing Previous A2 Short Films to the Mark Scheme - Screening 2

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Against the mark scheme I graded this as a Level 3 gaining 30 marks. I thought it had a great use of camera angles, a wide variety were used and this enabled them to pick up several key emotions that the little girl subtly had, especially when she was confused, for example the little girl turned up her nose at the new era she had opened up into. Some camera angles however were too wide not giving clear reasoning for their involvement; for example at 1:41 a long shot pan is used to show the little boy reading a newspaper and the little girl walking towards him. Too much of the garden is shown in this shot, it demonstrated that the little girl had seen the little boy already, but the acting would prove she had not, giving no clear reason for her to wander from the table of adults.
There was continuity problems with the editing. A lot of the time you can skip certain movements in clips e.g walking towards a door - you don't have to show the full walk as the audience usually get the idea. However, in this the risk did not pull off. There was moments where the characters had gotten closer and it was not explained when she got that close, confusing the audience - shown at 1:57 where the little girl had gone from behind the tree to in front of the little boy who is standing rather than sitting down, which is what were saw him last doing.
This all being said, the use of children in acting is usually difficult. As they joke in Hollywood - never work with animals and children. In this short film though, the children acting well considering they are very young, there was a few moments where you could tell they struggled, however, editing can be as much to blame in these scenes.
Another criticism, is that the dialogue was often muffled by the wind - Grandfather talking.

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