An intelligent case study indicating engagement and your growing confidence with identifying and evaluating how directors use, develop and challenge the conventions of thriller films.
To strengthen:
1) Revise identifying the girls as femme fatales. They are not though in their fantasy world (if you were to watch the entire film they would consider themselves in such a role). A femme fatale is mysterious, adult, seductive and glamorous and often devious. The horror of this real life murder which Jackson uses as the subject of his film is that the girls are ordinary school girls who wear the dress code for school girls of the early 1950s. One of the conventions of some thriller films (for example Billy's experience in Essex Boys) is that extraordinary events are experienced by ordinary people thus increasing suspense and audience empathy. Could you revise please Ella.
3) Good inter textual references particularly with regard to the challenge of generic conventions with placing females as perpetrators of the crime.
4) Also I like the way you identify aspects of camera angles and movement that increase suspense.
4) The sound track, see Slide 3. If you want a confident Level 4 I suggest you add another slide and discuss the purpose of Jackson's choice of sound track. This is extended learning and will indicate your ambition and your intellectual/creative curiosity.
5) Begin to write your analysis in 3rd person in future case studies. For example leaving out "I think" and "we". This moves you to a more sophisticated style.
At present you interesting and enthusiastic case study on a challenging film sequence indicates a confident Level 3+...B+
An intelligent case study indicating engagement and your growing confidence with identifying and evaluating how directors use, develop and challenge the conventions of thriller films.
ReplyDeleteTo strengthen:
1) Revise identifying the girls as femme fatales. They are not though in their fantasy world (if you were to watch the entire film they would consider themselves in such a role). A femme fatale is mysterious, adult, seductive and glamorous and often devious. The horror of this real life murder which Jackson uses as the subject of his film is that the girls are ordinary school girls who wear the dress code for school girls of the early 1950s. One of the conventions of some thriller films (for example Billy's experience in Essex Boys) is that extraordinary events are experienced by ordinary people thus increasing suspense and audience empathy. Could you revise please Ella.
2) Avoid using the adjective "angelic"!!! Instead "vulnerable" or "gauche (awkward)"; fantasists and so on. Angelic.....no way and this is a cliché!
3) Good inter textual references particularly with regard to the challenge of generic conventions with placing females as perpetrators of the crime.
4) Also I like the way you identify aspects of camera angles and movement that increase suspense.
4) The sound track, see Slide 3. If you want a confident Level 4 I suggest you add another slide and discuss the purpose of Jackson's choice of sound track. This is extended learning and will indicate your ambition and your intellectual/creative curiosity.
5) Begin to write your analysis in 3rd person in future case studies. For example leaving out "I think" and "we". This moves you to a more sophisticated style.
At present you interesting and enthusiastic case study on a challenging film sequence indicates a confident Level 3+...B+
Keep up the good work Ella.