What makes a good student film

What makes a good student film 

One of the things that makes a good student film is that the filmmakers make sure their titles fit the genre and opening of their movies because if they don't fit the opening sequence of the movie the viewer will become confused because the titles make the film look like a different genre. In this student film opening the titles match the opening sequence which enables the viewer to know what genre it is straight away.

Another point that makes a good student film is that the camera must be steady at all time unless you are using a handheld camera and you want to have that effect of shakiness on the people watching your film. In this shot the camera needs to be steady so you can pick up all that is happening in the scene and in this shot there is hardly any shaking.




Another thing that makes a good student film is that the audience understands what the film is about in the opening two minutes because if they don't know whats going on it could become confusing for them as they would not know whats happening or what could possibly happen. In this shot you can clearly see what the film is about because of the body in a bag, a policeman and also a detective.

Also using a variety of good effective shots in your film would make it a good student film because it would keep the audience interested with all the cuts happening while the film opening is going. They used a variety of shots including the establishing shot and the extreme close up.




To make a good student film you need to be able to get your titles in the right order. In this film opening they get their titles correct by putting their institutional logos at the start followed by their actors and then at the very end they put the most important person that is involved which is the director.

As we can see from the clip above, what you also need to have in a good film opening is that you need good quality dialogue if you use any during your film opening because bad dialogue would make the film sound worse than it is.

Also from the clip above there is good use of non diegetic sound which is the music that has been edited in and helps to add tension to the start of a film and this would make a student film good if the filmmakers wanted to use it.



Another point that makes a good student film is that their is good use of non diegetic sound and in this film opening there is good use of the non diegetic sound because it fits whats happening in the film opening.

One major thing you need to get right when making a student film is that you need to have edited your film well because if you don't edit well your film will not look good. In this student film opening they have edited well because all the cuts are clean and effective.

A good thing to do while making your student film opening is to entice the viewer into the film, so they have to watch it to find what happens next. This student film opening does that because you wonder what could happen next in the film, so you have to continue watching it if you could.

This will help me when it comes to making my own film opening because it shows me what other years have done and shows me different ideas.