Evaluation Question 1

Saw
(Directed and Produced by James Wan and Gregg Hoffman)

Saw is an American horror franchise that currently consists of five films, the first distributed in 2004 is the first installment of the Saw film series. The film's story revolves around two men who are kidnapped, trapped and locked in an industrial bathroom with a dead body between them and given instructions related to escaping. Police detectives investigate and attempt to apprehend the criminal responsible, the "Jigsaw Killer".

Saw begins with two male characters trapped and chained in a unknown room, or to what looks like a bathroom. An establishing shotn is used to give an insight in to what the room is like while at the same time familarising the audience with the current location. The films often uses flashbacks to tell the story during the duration in which the characters are trapped. This helps to introduce other characters as they have a significance for the main part of the film later on.

Amityville Horror Analysis

Created by Sahir Ahmed

Production Schedule Jazz Ahmed Sahir

Preliminary exercise: Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.

Main task: the titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes.

All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright-free source. Both preliminary and main tasks may be done individually or as a group. Maximum four members to a group.