Thursday, 5 December 2013

"Dog Soldiers" Film Analysis (Page 2)


Which aspects of the film would you like to AVOID in your own trailer?

I would like to avoid using over-exaggerated effects mainly because it makes a film look and feel unrealistic. I say this because I think that a realistic film has a better overall effect on me personally. Films that have realistic aspects such as, ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’, ‘Psycho’, ‘Saw’ and even zombie films like ‘Zombieland’ and ‘Day of The Dead’ just have more of an emotional effect especially with the characters, which I feel is really important.                                                                                                    
I would also try to avoid using ‘slow montage’ within my film trailer as much as possible. I say this because using ‘quick montage’ within a film makes it more exciting and panic-inducing as a whole and adds to the effect of the storyline.

What was the best aspect / more enjoyable moment in the film? Why? Can you recreate this in your own film? How?

I feel that as a whole, the body horror was the best aspect of this film. In terms of the scene that achieves this, I feel that the soldier who gets his stomach ripped open made me judder the most because it was evident that he was not going to survive. I feel that recreating that form of body horror may be difficult to replicate, but as a whole I would like to try and make something similar.     I would mainly try to add an emotional effect along with the body horror to make it more effective.

How does the film show the influence of its ‘auteur’ director? How does it show the director’s filmmaking style and soul? Give examples of three scenes from the movie that shows their auteur style.

I feel that this film has a good emotional effect throughout nearly every scene; this is helped by the ‘soldier’ side of things (looking out for one another, and relating to real-life soldiers).                                                            
In terms of the ‘auteur’ style, I think that Neil Marshall like the idea of using body horror to create an emotional effect. This film also suggests that he likes to cross genres (with this film being considered as 3).

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