Task 2 - Analysis of a Romantic Comedy - Just like Heaven'

Just like Heaven is a Romantic Comedy produced by Dreamworks who the founder is a well known film maker Steven Spielberg and the two actors main actors who star in the movie are Rheeses Witherspoon as the female lead actress and Mark Ruffallo plays as the male lead in this movie. It is a 2005 movie directed by Mark Waters.


  The first thing that happens is comes up Dreamworks SKG and their logo appears with the sound track of the movie not of  Dreamworks which breaks movie conventions as all of the film making companies have a logo and a sound track to it which on very movie they make they have that but not with this movie. The camera titles from the logo to clouds which links in with their logo as the logo is just clouds with the name of their company and they do that a lot with their films.
The sound track is a happy song, which makes a sound there is no theme tune of Dreamworks SKG. The sound track is called lustful life.
The garden looks like it could be the garden of Eden as it is a very beautiful place so if she is in the garden of Eden and she probably is Eve where is her Adam which means that she is alone at the moment but she might meet someone to be her 'Adam' as she wakes up and the scene feels like it is not finished.

The camera falling so like an angel and angels are good and are associated with love which links with the movie as this movie is a romantic comedy so it will have love as the main part of the movie.
The connotations of the colors of blue and pink are

The titles dissolve in and out in like a nice and ghostly way which could show that someone might become a ghost (someone might die or just be a ghost) because of the titles dissolving in a way that a ghost would.

The flowers show show love so the female who is sitting on the bench she might be thinking about love as stereotypical women think about love. the scene is it misty and cloudy which shows that she may be confused about love as the clouds are covering the scene.
Then the scene ends and she wakes up which means she was dreaming and that is a stereotype of women that they forever dream about finding a man, settling down and having kids.
The main character is a doctor which means that she is intelligent as doctors normally are very smart.

In the opening sequence there are three songs which have a happy mood, they are up beat as this is a Romantic Comedy  the songs suit the movie and the songs are contemporary pop songs to appeal them to the audience which would be more of a younger generation watching the movie.

The jump cuts showing pass of time which means that she is in the hospital a long time and it is showing what she has to deal with everyday.
During this part as an audience we see her communicate well with elderly and young people so she good with anyone and we can see that very well because of the jump cuts.

Elizabeth is surrounded by mothers, ex wife's and most of them have kids making her the odd one in as she is the one who does not have any of those things. one of the female doctors says to 'Elizabeth you are so lucky that all you have to worry about is work' the female doctor does not realize that Elizabeth may want those things as after they leave she is sad about all the things that she does not have but what they have.
Her sister is a match maker she has kids with a housebound and a nice home she is the opposite to her sister.
Stereo-typically women can do a lot of things at a time and her sister is one of those women so she can multi-task.



She spends 26 hours hours in the hospital which not normal to spend so many hours at your job and she drinks a lot of coffee to get some energy so her job is her life and not being a wife and a mother.
After she gets hit by the truck there is a white bright light which could signify that she may have died and went to heaven.

Task 2: The analysis of an opening film of a 'Halloween'

HALLOWEEN

John Carpenter directed, wrote and did the sound track for this movie. The theme tune is an Iconic sound track which has been put in a lot of different movies and TV shows. The soundtrack is being repeated all the way through the movie and it is repeated as a sound track that it does not change that much. The music is creepy and scary which fits with the genre of the movie which is a horror.
It is a 1978 American horror, independent film which is set in a fictional town of Haddonfield, Illionis USA.
It is a suburbian town  on Halloween who a boy kills his sister after he thinks she lost her virginity, after this he is sent to a mental institution for 15 years before he gets out and he comes back to his town to kill virgin girls before they lose their virginity.

The title sequence
The titles change color from yellow to red which it links with the genre as the colors that turn from yellow to red is fire and connotations of fire is danger which means that someone will probably be killed and we got that just from the titles. the titles are creepy so they also tells you what is the genre of the movie.
The name of the movie is 'Halloween' and the pumpkin on the left of the screen links with Halloween as it is the symbol of Halloween. The pumpkin gets bigger by the camera is basically zooming in or forward tracking on the pumpkin so as the pumpkin gets bigger it suppose to scare us. As the pumpkin gets bigger the music changes and builds up to create this psycho killer mood and the music depends and gets more darker.
Then it zooms in more on the eye of the pumpkin may show that as there is a sub POV of the antagonist this might be showing that this movie will start from the antagonist's point of view.
fade out of the pumpkin.
Some movies you are trying to figure out where the movie is set but with the caption screen it tells you that it is set in the fictional town of 'Haddonfield, Illinois, USA.


The opening scene
it is set in the nice suburbia middle class which changed the way horror movie conventions are as ever other horror movie before this one were set in dark, gory places which were in foreign places but John makes this movie come more alive as he takes it to a normal nice place and turns it into the antagonist's playground of fun. He basically took the killer home.
The titles have not faded away and you have a sound bridge of children which will signify as children are innocent but as the antagonist is not innocent and the opening scene might tell us why he will not innocent. Also, this might link in with the killer as he might be a child to show him when he was good and then he will become the killer he was destined to become.
You hear the words 'trick or treat' from children which kids always say that on Halloween  which creates the Halloween mood and then it pans to a white house.
There is sub POV of someone walking round the house looking at two teenagers when the male teenager says 'we are alone aren't we' which is like they feel that they are not alone but with someone. high pitched sound no cuts for this part making it more real as this is someone basically stalking two teenagers.

The music changes to make it more dark as the camera which is a subjective point of view of someone makes this more darker as he is trying to get into the house. you see someone taking a knife after the two teens go upstairs, you see a hand reaching for the knife which could mean that when teenagers are home alone they will want to have sex so person with a knife may want to kill them if the teenagers lose their virginity.
The clock makes a tick tock tick tock sound which could mean that the time is running away for someone. The person who is stalking the two teenagers grabs the mask with his right hand which he also used the same hand when he was took the knife, he took the mask to cover him self so that no one would recognize him and normally killers, thefts and other villain people wear masks to cover them selves so he may be trying to the same as antagonists do.
After the male teenager leaves the house the female teenager is half naked sitting and the bed is rugged up whent the camera looks at that which could show that she and her partner had sex so the female lost her virginity.  Then the person uses the knife to kill the female after the person thinks that they just had sex because the antagonist wanted for them not to lose their virginity. You find out that the person with the sub POV' s name is Michael and the feamle knows the man as she is disguested of him as he came into her room when she is n naked. She could be related to him as no one wants to see their siblings naked and he had access to the house so he might be living with her in the same house.

 After the male child kills the female in her room he goes down stairs and outside with a knife and then you see the child with his knife and his parents just came looking at him confused as why he has a knife in his arm so for the first time we as audience see the antagonist because the subjective point of view made it look more interesting.
at the end of the scene there is a crane shot looking at the two parents and the child withe the knife, they have a car which was a big deal in those days as in the sixties there was not that many cars in those days so the parents are a middle class citizens. also, you can notice it by the clothes that they wear as the father has a suit on and the mother has a nice dress.

Task 2 : The Dark Knight Rises - Analysing the opening sequence

Date - 10/01/13


The Dark Knight rises is a third installment of the Christopher Nolan's trilogy based upon a very popular DC comics character 'batman' who Warner Brothers produced all three movies and as this Batman series is being called the best batman series of all time, they are rebooting this movie with a different director as Christopher only wanted to make three movies.

Right at the start of the movie they show the studios who created the movie and then the screen is cracking  and they do not show the title sequence the part which shows the audience how is in the movie and who it is directed by because it is such a big movie and that they have A list actor/actresses that they do not need to show them and as they know who plays in the movie. this challenges the code of conventions of a movie  as you cannot see who directed it, and stared it in it.
Commissioner Gordon talks about Harvey dent he says 'I believe in Harvey dent.' which is a flashback from the last movie  the 'Dark Knight' shows us that this part will be important in this movie as if someone did not see the second installment of the the dark knight trilogy they are telling the audience that information to make them think why would you need. so the director is using archive footage to show a piece of information that you need to know.



There is an Aerial shot of the plane and the landscape, Christopher Nolan likes Aerial shots swiping around the landscapes showing the plane flying somewhere in Scotland. This is called a master shot of where they are to make it obvious for the audience where the action takes place so that the audience would not try to guess where the action is as the master shot tells you straight away, normally you put the master shot before the actual action.



 The three mercenaries on the plane are masked so that people will not recognize who they are and makes the importance of identities less the detective and the other people who are on the plane, until the detective asks the second mercenary 'a lot of loyalty for a hired gun' he says that because he wants them to talk and they are not talking back to him but one of them says something to him 'perhaps they are wondering why would someone shoot a man before throwing him out of the plane' which means that he may be more a leader than the other two as he is the only one who says something. Also, he says that because he makes him realize that his people are smart and very loyal to the leader so that they will not tell him about 'Bane'.
When they showed the plane scene at comic con about a year before this movie was showned in the cinema the audience did not understand what Bane was saying so they had to edit his voice to make it so that the audience would understand what he is saying, which means that Bane's voice at the satart sounded much differently than when you watched it in the cinema.
When on the plane Bane is talking to the detective at the moment when he says 'crashing this plane' the music changes and the cuts quicken to make the pace faster and that when they start to attack and take control of the plane to crash it. The point of crashing the plane the was so that people in the movie would think that the doctor who created the fusion power bomb would be dead as they poured blood the doctor's blood into the dead body. So Dr Pavel would be presumed dead after they




Also, when the Commissioner Gordon talks about Harvey Dent there is a flashback of him having two faces and how evil he was trying to kill his son so he wants to tell them the truth about him 'telling the truth about Harvey Dent' which means that he is thinking about telling the people of Gotham who Harvey really was but he stops him self and says that 'maybe the timing isn't right' because he believes that they need to know the truth just not at the moment.