Analysis of other students work 2

Hey,

Here I looked up past A level students work on youtube to see how they created their thriller and what each grade 'looked like' in terms of editing, camera angles and the way the entire opening is created. Here is one of the openings that I enjoyed and here is my analysis of one of them. 

The second one is called;
Inner Evil By Kristine Gulden.

The first shot we see with a person in, shows someones legs lying on the ground. Stereotypically we can assume that this person is dead as they are not responding, therefore this shot makes the audience continue to watch and see what happens and if the person is ok. The music is slow and steady.  

The way her hand is placed is as if she if reaching for help or struggling in some sort of way. We can also establish that the victim is a woman. This shot is a close up. 

The shot is important in creating suspense because we can clearly see a wound on her head. As a person watching this it makes us wonder how she got like this, why she got like this and by who. This thriller opening is a great example of showing us how to keep an audience in suspense to know whats going on.  The music gets more dramatic as soon as we see the girls face, this adds mystery and drama. Another way we can look at it is how is she still conscious and what is going to happen to her. A great thriller opening is meant to make you question it and what you know so you stay intrigued and focused on watching.

Here is a long distance shot, here we can see the setting as well as the mood of the character. The shot helps the audience see her body language which obviously shows her distress and her worries, again making us as the audience question why she feels like this. The scene is bright whereas she in herself is obviously in a dark place, this is a good example of a contrast between setting and atmosphere of her mood.

This shot shows her covered in blood. We can also see someone else hand, this could be an attack on her. 
This is a flash bag scene we can tell this by the dreamy aspect of the clip, we also know it is a flashback because of the way she is reminded by the key of her attack, this is a significant scene because it tells us something about her and her past life.

The next scenes are filmed very shaky, this could portray her emotions about the event that she went through. It can also show her mental state. She keeps having flashbacks when she sees something and that triggers her memories, her memory could either be flawed or it could be overloaded with too many sad memories.



This is an over the shoulder shot where we can clearly see someone following our main character. This shot helps us see that she is clearly being stalked and we can infer that this is the person who attacked her although we cannot know this for sure. This is what makes us want to watch on and find out. The fact that it is filmed outside in a public space shows her venerability to her stalker. The scene is bright whereas the stalkers clothing is dark, this portrays his/her character and what they represent. This is important because we need to see this, it helps build suspense in the clip.