Blog Task 5

Short Film Review Across The Hall The short Across the hall I feel was an interesting concept that could have been better executed. I found the actors wooden in there delivery of lines, which took away from an interesting narrative concept. The twist at the end of the film I also feel took away from it slightly I don’t feel it ties in well with the rest of the film and I feel that it could have been changed to suit the rest of the film more. I do find the opening scene very effective, it caught my attention and interested me even with some very long and stationary camera shots. Overall as a shot film goes I feel that it is effective in grabbing your attention and keeping it however as a feature length movie concept I feel it is lacking and could use some work. -Newspaper Review Fact paced with an attention grabbing story line let down by poor acting and unsurprising twist at the end. More thought could have been put into end narrative but overall an above average performance. -Rotten Tomatoes Review For the newspaper review I have chosen to go into a lot more in depth review as when people are reading newspapers they expect the reviews to be a lot more informative and interesting. They want to have an indepth look into the film and make sure they are making the right choice as an audience so you often find that more informed critics will review films for newspapers. Comparing this to the internet and look at the reviews on Rotten Tomatoes people want a quick short and snappy review that they can look at quickly so they can compare it with other critics. Online review are a lot more informative in my eyes since they bring together 7 or 8 top critics opinions on the film so you can base your decisions on a wide range of sources. I feel that online reviewing is the future and the majority of reviewing is going to be online as it allows you to bring together a wide range of critics reviews form all over the world which is much more informative than just have one critics review as that one review could be biased. I feel that I can trust the review found on the internet as I like to compare the reviews to see which things are similar and base my opinion on that. Going to see films in the cinema I often base around reviews online or in Empire magazine as I feel that going to the cinema I want to see a good film so I look to see what the general consensus on a film is and if it is good I will go and watch it. This is useful as I don’t want to pay £5 to go and see a bad film.