Genre with Student Made Films.

Horror-

This horror movie is made by an A level student , its called Friend request, he gets a friend request on Facebook from someone he doesn't know, she likes various photos of his and messages telling him she is coming to his house. He looks out of the window and see a teddy bear hung at the fence, we see the girl walk past the door behind him, he is still unaware. This is all reasonably apparent to the audience however after this he seems to be in complete darkness and needs light of a candle to see, I assume that the lights have gone out however this was not apparent to me. After he turns the lights back on he sees the door shut and as he reaches for the handle it moves up and down vigorously without him touching it. He runs in a looks through her Facebook it's seems that she is dead and he is being haunted by a ghost. further up there are photos of him through the windows of his house. He goes to get a gun with for me isn't needed in the film but makes the character seem to fearless. The use of the creepy innocent girl with a teddy.

This horror movie is made my an A-level film. In it we see a girl walking home, over the top of this is quite slow but sharp music. She gets home and behind her in the window is masked man she is unaware of this, she sits down to watch TV the door the masked man puts his head through the open window, she still is oblivious, she goes up stairs to bed when the masked man and an associate they take her to an enclosed rooms and tie her up, she screams and resists she is then covered in fuel and burnt.
This film uses various Horror conventions such as the pacey loud, sharp music. The use of masked men is another Horror convention. When we see the women tied up and taped at the mouth it shows many horror movie conventions where the victim is trapped and immobilised.   

Action with Some Crime-

In Caught we see a man walking out of his house looking very pleased and happy, he gets into his car, however in the back seat is a man who puts him to sleep. The film jumps to the inside of a garage, here the man is tied up and the while the man from the car has a gun pointed to his head he wants answers, he then leaves to deal with one of the victims friends that's come to help, he returns and say his friend has been shot during the time he left the tied up man has released his hands and punches the gun out of his hand they fight. The victim is knocked out, as the gun is raised to shoot him another gun shot is heard and the friend, injured has returned to kill him and save his friend. During this film there are many conventions from action films such as the guns, fighting and hostility. Also the use of camera work is a good convention such as the lagged video that allow or a blurry duplicated clip to show unconsciousness.
 

In this short film we see a foreign drug dealer that receives a large amount of cocaine from a larger dealer, he pays him then takes a line of the cocaine to then find out that the cocaine is not cocaine at all he sends his associate to chase him and retrieve the money from him, they chase through the town and up a set of stairs to the roof of a multi-story building the dealer is trapped and the associate fights for the money back when down the associate is trapped and the dealer is ready to kill him however the associate sees a shape metal spike in the flower bed and uses it to counter and stab the dealer killing him and taking the money back. This film contains lots of Action conventions such as the cocaine, dealers, guns, high speed chases, fight scenes and the rural setting that makes the film look really professional. Also the slow motion and rewind shots are used in lots of action films like this to mark important moments and stunts which this film had done.