Evaluation of 15 minute film

Alien

I decided to look at alien because it has a horror/ suspense genre like the gift would have.It begins with a view of space, and slowly pans across to a planet, while this is happening lines start to appear on screen at the top, this begins to spell out alien.  There is a very quite tense music that seems to build up as the title is revealed, it stops building up in tension when a space ship is shown. The cuts and pans are very slow, sending you into a false sense of security , and also hints towards something’s going to happen. 

Inside the space craft its very dim, its dark lighting. A computer screen lights up, and creates a sound. 

  After this the entire ship lights up, and a light dreamy music begins as the camera zooms in onto a room (after the door opens). This room slowly lights up as six pods open, the people in them slowly wake up. The beginning scene seems like a fantasy, very peaceful and bright. All the people are wearing white clothes, which only cover their private areas. The entire room is very white and appears very clinical. This scene uses a lot of fades, this shows us the characters feel fuzzy, and out of it.

After this scene you see all the people around a table eating, once again the room is poorly light, but the faces of the cast seem to be light up from below, or a side, this is a classically seem in horror movies to create tension. The characters are all wearing light shades. The cuts are a lot quicker, and the movement of the camera is quicker.

An alarm goes off and a character leaves to speak to Mother.

You follow him going down a dark part of the ship. He accesses a light room, where he speaks to mother.

He uses (what would have been high tech systems) the computer to speak to mother.

It jumps between him in the mother room to the rest of the cast. This is again a dim room.

It then goes to outside the ship, where you can hear the ships low hum, and Rimley talking through her headset, stating the sips name trying to communicate to another ship, with no reply.

A machine beeps, as they find the location of the signal. They say its not there signal.

It jumps from this scene to two of the crew talking about how they never go to that part of the ship. In this scene they speak louder than any other scene so far. They then walk into the control room.

It then shows you them going to the planet the signal is coming from. It cuts from outside the ship to inside the ship. 

They have some difficulties reaching the island. 

When they do land some electronics spark up causing a fire. Alarms go off. 

Its cuts to outside the ship and shows its very dark, and the wind is very strong, you can hear it whistling. 

Part of the crew still on board then talks to the crew through some communication device on ship.