COMPARING 2 PAST AS FILM OPENINGS

Here are the past 2 film openings i assessed:

Red Run:                                                 Tiny Terror:

These are both the idents that appear first on screen for both AS films, and they both have non diegetic slow piano music playing.

These are then the idents that follow however they're are done using real footage that the students filmed themselves which adds to the creativity of the film openings.

Both film openings start with 3 idents which is common in short films. 

The similarity between these two is that they both reveal the title at roughly 30 seconds in which makes it seem like the common thing to do when presenting a short film opening, also they're both revealing the genre as the audience with a preferred reading will understand that the red on black will act as a signifier to symbolise blood and death, which also links to the slasher genre.
Straight away in the first shot we notice the difference between the two films as Red Run uses great narrative enigma with a variety of quick shots and continuity and doesn't reveal the character until about a minute in, whereas with Tiny Terror the character is revealed straight away in the first shot with not much variety of shots either. However in them both they use this audio bridge of music which builds up tension as if something bad is about to happen and this works well.

Both films use the false scare idea to a great effect by making the audiences think something bad is about to happening when it doesn't this also builds up to what actually happens when the killer is the scare later on.

POV shot



POV shot



 Both of these shots are point of view shot of who'm the audience will think is the killer. However the point of view shot in Tiny Terror is a high angled point of view shot and makes the two characters look vulnerable to the supposebly killer, they both also have a shaky effect which makes it more realistic that it's a point of view shot so it seem like it from the person walking.These both also use great narrative enigma and reveal the character slowly.

  Also both films use a 'normal' house as a setting which uses the whole idea that this could happen to anyone , including the audience watching , which is what most slasher films use so it could also be classed as intertextuality. Furthermore they both use this intertextuality with the slasher being a doll from the film Child's Play (Tom Holland, 1988)
In conclusion i think Red Run worked better with the continuity of variety of shots which was what Tiny Terror was lacking. However both stories worked well.