Monday, 2 March 2009

Codes and Conventions Of Film Openings

Non-digetic music - teenage audience

shot of main character

voice over of main character makes it clear he is the main character.

A regional scottish accent used.

hit by car and then he leans on the bonnet and it shows us what he looks like, who he is, point of view shot and this also grabs the audiences attention.

The characters 'Spud' and 'Sick Boy' - binary opposition

The 4 Characters - Stereoptypes

Baby - Heroin = shock shows that it is a gritty social realism style film.

Laid on floor smoking - bit like a steam train, matches what the character is like.

28 Weeks Later

Establishing shot sets the scene

POV shots makes the audience feel as if they are there

Flashing lights and close ups all add to the tension

like a documentary as the camera moves freely

Male nudity - challenging shot

Touch of evil (1957- Orson Welles)

Expectations/Conventions of film companies

Denotation - Bomb

Non-digetic music emphasing idea of anchorage - explosion

Device about to set off

Narrative enigma

In and out of shot

Crane

tracking - clubs - different music

Well dressed - straight - upper class

Audience requires exposition

Leprechaun (Mark Jones)

Trumark Pictures

Blue tinted light

Fantasy

Font used - celtic

Canted angle

Signifier - lighting

Intertextual refernce to 'Physcho' when she falls down the stairs

Post modernism - intertextual messages

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