Task 11 - Print Artefacts: "Snap, Snap, Bang" Movie Review Draft 1

Any movie review has to have a minimum of 4 areas to cover within the 1000-1500 brief review of the movie. Primarily, these 4 things would consist of:

• Screenshot from the movie
• Summary of the plot, characters, actors, any homages 
• Director, release date, profit, budget, story behind production 
• Final Verdict 

In identifying these 4 areas to aim for in creating my own review of Snap, Snap, Bang, I have essentially created a mark scheme to check off on when I have completed one section of it, thus breaking my review into 4 short paragraph, or sections on the page, to which I will later put together in the final draft.

In drafting this simple idea of what the end product will look like, I looked at various Empire magazine review panels to get influence from, as it is one of the more popular subscribed to movie magazines currently.

     

Small section of the review

Not your average Thriller flick to arrive in late November – Snap, Snap, Bang shows Halloween worn viewers a short 5 minutes inside a room designed to fulfill the sadistic fantasies of closely evading death by paper cuts, or vicious tongue removal.

Following the nameless character, who is revealed to be Contestant 2 in the credits, as he aimlessly walks his way to the “Club” after good night out turned bad, where we join back up with this character hours into his “Game” with another character, called Contestant 1, who isn’t exactly the easiest person in the world.  The Short studies these 2 as they go back and forth toying with each other and learning more about each other, both willingly aware of the fact that one of them will be drawing the short straw on the table. One of the most compelling factors of this short might just be the ever going card game of Snap, which dictates the fate of what will happen to any number of Contestant’s playing, until of course they can no longer continue, for whatever reason…

The idea of using a child’s game like Snap is just one of the bizarre factoids about this short as the character’s willingly, and sometimes even pay to play this near-certain death game, to which they will intentionally find a pair of cards that have one

The clear lack of an extensive budget is apparent but the young filmmaker (Perry) works hard to work around the financial constraints and real world limitations from his extensive imagination.