RESEARCH: SHORT FILM / TRAILER ANALYSIS

Whether your brief is making a short film or a trailer, you follow the same work flow as for AS: research, planning, construction and evaluation. This process also applies to the 2 ancillary products (that is, the film poster and the radio trailer that accompany the short film  brief). There is therefore more work involved at A2!

First step: select at least 6 examples of short films (or trailers, if that is your brief). We started in class so go back and update your work so that it conforms to the following requirements. The aim is to show critical awareness of the genre codes (= what we see and hear) and conventions (=what is usually done, like where the credits come, the institutional info).

Analyse in the following way and present the analysis in an appropriate format such as SlideShare, with text and illustration. Here is an example of a SlideShare presentation.


Headings for each slide /page:
1. (title page)
 Alone (2014, directed by Brock Torunski)
Accessed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbTc81JmQTs&list=PLzXVrEAQhfN5nNBEKn2Po1Y8xIkpIrmXk

Winner of the Halifax Film Festival awards for Best Emerging Cinematographer and Best Emerging Sound Design

2. Plot Summary
3. Mise-en-scène: setting /location
4. Mise-en-scène: iconography and props
5. Mise-en-scène: colour and lighting
6. Mise-en-scène:  make up and costume
7. Editing: sound and vision
8. Cinematography
9. Title and credits 

Your slide would be entitled Mise-en-scene: iconography and props, and would have illustrations like this.