Assessing a Past Coursework Opening

The Second Personality



This is a past piece of coursework from 2009. 

0.07

The strongest feature in the opening is the varying in shot types. One we like in particular is a shot at 0.07 where the shot changes to a radio and then the music starts playing. We thought this was a clever way of bringing music into the opening.

0.28

The weakest feature of the opening is the unclear transitions making the plot hard to follow and understand. The girl in the opening only makes a very brief appearance making it unclear whether she is a main part of the film. After watching the opening a few times only then did we truly realise the relevance of this shot.

1.30

We don't see any of the criteria being excellent but we would say the variety of shots was fairly good and we would put in the proficient section. We think that the editing for meaning to viewer might fall into the minimal category as it did take so long for us to understand the plot. A shot we liked in particular was the point of view shot of the main characters feet. This was good and the point of view shot was very believable and you can tell the camera was being hand held at this point.