A vodcast I created with the voice over of my colleagues about the slasher genre. It covers main points about titles and how certain scenes are played out.
C: Some great analysis, but the structure provides limited examples, and you need to be familiar with a wide range of examples to be confident in both planning/using conventions and being able to justify your choices (including in the Eval later on: see Q1!!!)
You need to add titles to identify the film being used as an example, eg Scream (Craven, 1996). Linked issue with the general Cs+Cs vodcast: the lack of numbered conventions there leads to an unstructured approach here. You should be tackling 1 convention with multiple examples, introduced with a clear numbered title, then onto the next. This way you don't mis-identify an ES for example, and you're more likely to use key terms like anchorage (the doll...; and james again later 'gives us the indication that...' should be signifies, connotes, anchors...). You play an iconic animated main title with sound mix (Scream) but no comment on it?! Scream queen - some good analysis on costume (though she does appear as the protagonist up to her death) BUT you need to get deeper into the concept: feminism, male gaze, Mulvey. You definitely need multiple clips/images to establish this concept of a scream queen. You could even quote from an academic or so here, use a book cover image etc. There's an interesting point to be made on the Bechdel Test here, despite the sexist image of horror. If you kept this POINT with the relevant Scary Movie clip you used, its a much better vodcast Fake scare = FALSE scare. Chase scenes: you need to consider setting of chase (isolated) and editing (linked to music). Parents useless - good point, but you haven't made it explicit WHY this is a convention.
Bottom line: lots of good aspects to this, but the structure is unhelpful, too few examples referenced, clear opportunity for more detailed analysis. The ironic commentary in the VO is fine BTW, a good thing!
C: Some great analysis, but the structure provides limited examples, and you need to be familiar with a wide range of examples to be confident in both planning/using conventions and being able to justify your choices (including in the Eval later on: see Q1!!!)
ReplyDeleteYou need to add titles to identify the film being used as an example, eg Scream (Craven, 1996).
Linked issue with the general Cs+Cs vodcast: the lack of numbered conventions there leads to an unstructured approach here. You should be tackling 1 convention with multiple examples, introduced with a clear numbered title, then onto the next.
This way you don't mis-identify an ES for example, and you're more likely to use key terms like anchorage (the doll...; and james again later 'gives us the indication that...' should be signifies, connotes, anchors...).
You play an iconic animated main title with sound mix (Scream) but no comment on it?!
Scream queen - some good analysis on costume (though she does appear as the protagonist up to her death) BUT you need to get deeper into the concept: feminism, male gaze, Mulvey. You definitely need multiple clips/images to establish this concept of a scream queen. You could even quote from an academic or so here, use a book cover image etc. There's an interesting point to be made on the Bechdel Test here, despite the sexist image of horror. If you kept this POINT with the relevant Scary Movie clip you used, its a much better vodcast
Fake scare = FALSE scare.
Chase scenes: you need to consider setting of chase (isolated) and editing (linked to music).
Parents useless - good point, but you haven't made it explicit WHY this is a convention.
Bottom line: lots of good aspects to this, but the structure is unhelpful, too few examples referenced, clear opportunity for more detailed analysis. The ironic commentary in the VO is fine BTW, a good thing!