Snatch Opening Titles

I chose to analyse the opening titles to 'Snatch' because it shows different camera shots and editing effects in just introducing the audiance to the characters. Introducing the audiance to the characters first is effective as it makes them feel connected and more comfortable in the environment that they are being put in. It also helps them understand as the quick scenes each character gets interprets to the audiance what they are like and how we should see them as. This is important to this film as the idea is that they are all off the streets, and this is how the audiance can fit in by seeing who they should be careful of, copying the characters emotions. This makes any people from the audiance who don't know what it is like get an understanding of what it is like to live the way each character lives. This film is aimed for ages 18+, and this immediatly makes the audiance ready for any type of violence or cursing that comes with the age tag.

For the opening to these credits it starts with the music that is played all the way through to introduce all the characters, this music is set more on the upbeat side to make the audiance understand that there is no immediate threat. You first get to see the two shot of men dressed in uniform, this is used to reinforce the audiances stereotypical and ironic humour that all foreign people have to dress the same way with the use of mise-en-scene, which involves the costumes and the use of fake hair to reinforce the beards. The camera pans around the truck which these people are dressed in to a man holding a giant diamond, and the way the music gets louder it engages the viewer to see that the diamond is important to the story of this film. This is determined also by the camera quickly zooms in on the diamond until it is the only thing on the screen. The diamond turns into action in the background as the camera spins round, and in front is the Title of the film. This exites the viewer to the knowledge that there is more to come.
From one character to another the diamond ad other props link them all in the introduction. The diamond is used first to introduce the first character, as the camera pans around the diamond with the screen cut down, and as the screen inflates to full again it reveals another scene altogether with another character looking at the diamond with a magnifying glass you couldn't see before it panned. This is effective as it doesn't confuse the viewer at an immediate jump, it all seems cleverly linked to keep the audiances attention. The camara zooms away from the magnifying glass to the character in mid shot to see his expression. The expression he pulls is a connotation of smugness, which the audiance can interpret as greed, but it is taken that he wants this diamond, which immediatly makes the audiance understand the first important plot to the film. The use of graphics is used to show all the characters names in bold, this is done with a frozen picture of them next to it in black and white. This is effective as the audiance can get a brief understanding of who they are so they can follow important parts of the film. The first character is shown in his frozen scene is 'Cousin Avi'. The frozen names only last a split second until their scenes carry on, which is where he goes towards his safe to place the diamond inside, which leads to the next character opening a safe simultanously on the other side and collecting what the last character puts inside. This again is effective as it stops the jump from one character to another.
The next character takes out another item to the last character, which can then make the audiance understand the difference other than misinterpreting that the safes are linked. He is briefly shown by his frozen part as the character 'Sol', and he is represented as the stereotypical black jewel thief as he takes out a bag of cheap gold from his safe, this prop is effective as it helps the audiance reinforce this idea. The use of mise-en-scene is further developed when the props are old and worn compared to the last character 'Cousin Avi' who was in a brightly lit room with expensive clothes. 'Sol' on the other hand has a dark and dreary atmosphere to his area he is in, and his clothes are ordinary and lack and colour or detail. 'Sol' throws the bag of jewellery in an area that can't be seen on the screen, but the camera then jumps to another scene with the next character, which has been introduced with a high angle shot of the newly changed prop, this time into money.
The money prop is effective as it immediatly makes the audiance sense that the next character is ambitious with making money, but the old table it is placed on, with the use of mise-en-scene also lets the viewer know that this next character isn't rich. The camera pans upwards to the next character which is frozen in place to let the audiance know his name is 'Mickey', and the setting he is placed in with another character shows he is in an enclosed space, but the use of netting and the natural light that is shone through it makes the audiance know with the unpersonalised props that he is in a caravan. He is dressed in cheap clothing and the way he slaps off the hand that comes his way is a denotation that he is struggling to earn money, therefore he is protective of any he gets. It furthers the idea that it is a caravan that they are in by the number of characters in an enclosed space, this forces the audiances cliched view that all people that live in caravans share one between a large amount. 'Mickey' takes a bag and just like the last character he comes onto with he copies the same idea by throwing the bag into another direction to the next character, and the bag is shown this time coming to the next character in a mid shot.
The audiance understands immediatly that this next character is linked to 'Sol' as the reinforced stereotypical view that all black people know each other are entwined with the fact the prop he gets is the same as Sol's, also the setting is the same as what Sol was placed in. This , within the first 30 seconds already makes the audiance involved with the plot as they know who works together and who are friends. The expression on his face is a connotation of greed, unlike Sol's which was indifferent to the idea of money. This shows a difference in opinion between the two and already dignifies the differences between them. Like the other characters the camera freezes to let us know his name is Vinnie. The camera then turns his image upside down whilst he empties the bag contents, which leads on to the other character which is first seen by the props of a blackjack table full of different, more expensive looking styled Jewellery. This immediatly interprets that the next character has money, or he has an addiction to gambling.
The camera turns the right way up to let the audiance see the next character, and the setting the audiance are now placed in is a dark room full of people surrounding a table, the dark room is effective as it makes us think that they are hiding in an old surroundings. The camera immediatly focuses on the character in front of us by zooming in, to get the full view of the character holding up his cards, and to see that he is missing a finger. This also helps the viewer understand why he is called 'Frankie Four Fingers'. This can make the audiances go different ways, as some may be questioning why he lost the finger, but others in the audiance could already know that it is because of a gambling problem, which plays on some of the audiances darkest secrets, this would make anyone addicted to gambling more connected to this character. I think also that is why this film was successful as each member of the audiance can feel more connected to a seperate character. The expensive cards are placed down on the table, zoomed into, and are then changed to more old and worn cards on a rusted old table, which links us in to the next character.
The camera is in a high angle shot as they are sitting down, and it makes the audiance feel more important in wealth. It then changes to a mid shot as the next character stands up with importance and walks away from the table. The use of natural light helps the audiance realise that they are outside, and they can see the old caravan, suggesting that they are underground. The next character is called Turkish, and he is dressed appropriatly for the old run down area he is placed in, which also sets up another of why he is there to begin with? As he walks along in his surroundings the next character is shown boxing, with Turkish shoting soundlessly at him, the noise was unnessecary as Turkish's facial expression reads what he is doing. This helps the audiance understand his occupation which also helps them understand how he is dressed the way he is, a boxing trainer.
The next two characters are with him in this scene, which shows they are linked. There is a mid shot to show the next character boxing, which is then shown as his name is 'Gorgeous George'. This links to the last character Turkish as he is the man who is being trained. As Georgeous George is boxing it links to the next character by punching the bag too hard and throwing the next character off the screen. By the facial expression on his face the audiance feel linked to this character as someone to laugh at, as he looks vulnerable but in a humourous way. The camra freezes at his scared expression to the name of 'Tommy', and it is shown in this expression to represent how he will be like in the entire film, and therefore not a threat to the audiance. The camera then focuses back to Turkish, which tells the audiance that he is in charge of Georgous George and Tommy, it shows his facial expression as angry and sees him walking away, from behind the punch bag, which takes you to the next scene to the next character after the punching bag disappears from view.
The next character is seen as a threat as he is putting a man in the boot, he is considered a threat to the audiance as the man being thrown in the boot is majorly injured whilst the character is unharmed, and perfectly groomed. He is rich, you can tell by the costume he wears and the prop of his car which hasn't even remotly got a scratch. The camera is then shown from the man in the boots point of view, which means that the next camera is shown from a low angle shot, which makes the viewer vulnerable in his presence. He is further imtimidating as he is called 'Bullet Tooth Tony'. This makes the viewer question why he is called this, encouraging them to keep watching. As the boot is shut it takes them on to the next character by going into dark and then seeing natural light again with the next character peering in.
He pulls out a gun from the area the audiance are put in, a low angle shot is still used as the following character is also intimidating and makes the audaicne wary of his presence. There is a zoom in of his face and he cocks the gun and he is frozen in place to tell the viewer that his name is 'Boris the Blade'. This character is lead on from Bullet Tooth Tony as he gets the audiance asking similar questions, why is he called Boris the Blade? That is why they are some of the last characters to be introduced, as they are more interesting than others. The gun makes the audaince hesistant to what is going to happen, and makes them question which character he is about to kill. The camera then drops down to a low angle shot in the box again, and Boris The Blade closes it, as he does so the next character closes a book, which links them together.
The next character goes to sit down onto a chair, and analyses a diamond that the character Cousin Avi looks at. This makes the audaince understand the link between him and Cousin Avi but also makes them question why. The hat he wears signals to the viewer that this character is Jewish, and it makes the audiance wonder why this is important. He is wearing expensive looking clothes, which could justify how he links to Cousin Avi and makes the audiance want to continue viewing. He is shown as angry by his facial expressions, which makes us wonder why. This character is called 'Doug The Head', which makes the audiance assume he is an important character to this film. He gets up to walk away from his desk and just as he is out of the camera's sight the next character follows on walking to where Doug the Head just was.
The scene suggests danger as the lighting is darker and more gloomy than the last setting, but the character which the camera is focused on is dressed in expensive clothing, and he reinforces the stereotypical view as the villian in this film as he is surrounded by the butch sidekicks who have a man held down on the table. Judging by the mans viewe he is terrified, which adds hostility to the character that is being focused on in this scene. It shows the characters name as 'Brick Top' in a low angle shot as he has a hammer risen to attack above his head, this shows that he is the more violent character of the others, and that he a character not to like. The man who is being hit screams, and as he does so the camera focuses on his mouth, which with the help of graphics it starts to fade and turn into the diamond at the beginning of the introductions, and the camera again cuts away the screen until it turns 180 degrees back to the moment that it left off of the character, which we now know is called Frankie Four Fingers, back to looking at the diamond.

The use of diegetic sound is finally being used to converse with a character opposite, and this signals that the film is starting, by this time the audiance are anxious to know what happens to all these characters and are concentrating. To help the audiance feel like they are back in this scene they use a character with a russian accent to interpret as a villian who wants the diamond. This reinfoces the cliched view that all foreign people are villians. The audiance question where they are as they can hear the noise of an ambulance outside the truck but you can't actually see it, this makes the audiance think that they are on a bad side of town. The gun is made loud when the bullets hit the floor as these props are important to the entire film.
I like how this is worked as it doesn't use speech to hook in the audiance, it uses all the characters as introductions in order to make it work. It reinforces the age group of 18+ as it already uses violence and the film is based in old downtown streets. It also lets the viewer understand that this is an action comedy by using humour in the idea of violence, and this helps the viewer know that all these characters aren't there to scare the audiance, it plays on theeir darkest thoughts of hurting and finding the humour within it.
I would like to do something very much simialar to this, as I enjoyed how each character was linked in the opening to mundane objects.

Die Hard - Action Film Cliches

Die Hard was the best film to use on this gene for cliches as most of the cliches had started from this film and have been copied from time. One of the cliches in this film include the butch men with the small, villian at the front. This is throughout the entire film and it signals to the viewer with the presence and atmospheric music that pounds louder when the camera is zoomed in closer to the villian that they are in fact the ones to be feared. The film is based and carried through on the one cliche of the film, that the helpless woman who the hero is attached to needs to be saaved. This appeals to the male audiance which is what the film is aimed at by making the male feel like they are in the hero's place and being the hero of the film which adds to their attention for the film. To attract the male audiance there is lots of guns and shooting to engage them and it reinforces the stereotypical idea that guns and weapons attract the male audiance. The cliched idea of the film is that all the gun shots that are used to shoot the hero miss, making the audiance feel conncected to being the hero as he is invincible to any damage. The hero is cliched by kicking off the evil men sidekicks one by one, it is what is copied in most other films. The villians voice in this films represents evilness, and it has a more feminine sound to it, this makes the male audiance go against the villian as he is shown as a less independant man. The villians sidekicks use the cliched loading of guns to attract the audiance at the knowledge of what is to come. The hero uses the cheesy lines against the villian 'no one kills him but me'. This is effective as it is a line that is remembered after the film has been watched, and it lets the viewer know that the hero will in fact kill the villian in the end. As the hero and the evil villians try to kill each other the hero tries to save himself by using the cliched idea of sliding down a glass roof, which has been copied in other films and has been made a cliche.

Cliched characters are used in this film in order for the audiance to feel connected to, in this film it is the stereotypical fat cop that is out in the shops buying dohnuts. You feel connected to the cop as he is meant to represent the idea that he doesn't know what `he is doing, and does so successfully in this film. He is called to go to the scene where the shooting occurs, and when he fails to find anything it reinforces the steotypical view and cliched cheesy line of not knowing anything by saying over the radio that it is a 'Wild Goose Chase'. You then get the stereotypical past of knowing that the cop accidentally shot a kid, and that is why he is the way he is today.

The hero climbs down a ladder, and as he does that he is led to dangerous blades, which he manages to stop and climb through. The cliched view of the villians trying to grab him as he is halfway through is then reinforced by just making it on the other side in time, which attracts the viewer as they can see themselves in this situation. The villians have a cliched view of the villians getting stuck and taking another turning.

The hero runs along glass which is followed by the villians trying to shoot, again missing. The cliched view of the hero just being in time but getting cut along the feet by the shattering glass, which is then when he has to do the cliched emergency surgery, taking the glass out. You get shots of the chest and scene around him to which he is stuck. The villians watch and wait in the burly basement scenes, another cliched idea which links to horror as they are both represented as scary and manly. As the hero is trying to recover from the pain in his feet he asks the fat cop to tell his wife that he loves her, cliched speech which attracts a female audiance as he opens up about his life. The film becomes successful this way.

I like the action cliche to this film and that is why I might consider using this for my own two minute clip, and if I use this genre in my clip then I now have a basic understanding of what cliches needed to be included in the film, which is why Die Hard was a good film to watch in order to understand.

Other Horror Cliches

The Ring

The rings main scary scene for the horror cliche is the cliche of the creepy child in the closet, with a gruesome face. This is a cliche as it is a scary child is almost always included in a horror film, as it makes the viewer vulnerable at the sight of someone younger being able to scare you. To show she is vulnerable in the ring the little girl curls up and looks scarily at the woman who opens the cupboard, and the camera angle is aimed high above her in a high angle shot to scare the viewer at the vulnerable state of a younger child, the child will always be vulnerable ass the audiance for these films are 18+, and children would be scared of these films.

Dawn of the Dead trailer

The trailer is from 1978 and it shows one of the biggest cliches that are put together in zombie films, the creepy looking zombies with lifeless looks and blood soaking their bodys coming at you with their arms outstretched on the screen. This scares viewers even though it is cliched as it reacts to the viewers instinctive needs to protect themselves coming at them that they don't like.

IT

The film IT is different from other horror films because they use clowns, which have been twisted to the idea of being a scary thing to see instead of the childish idea that they are nice to see. There are other typical cliches such as the shower scene, where you are naked and at your most vulnerable state. This scares viewers as you dont want to have the same scenario happen to you, hence getting inside their conscience and scaring themselves at the idea of being in the same position. Other cliched scene is the scared children in the presence of the clowns, this scares viewers, mainly parents at the thought of their own children being scared in this sense, and it makes viewers copy the emotions the children are feeling. The problem with this film is that it doesn't explain anything about the plot, unlike the other films that I have seen and analysed.

What lies beneath

What lies beneath is set in a rural countryside setting, which is cliched as it is a setting where everything is open and quiet and no one can hear you scream. What lies beneath is based of a ghost of a girl in the house, which means that most of the films are based on bathroom scenes with the creepy music in the background to signal a change in the relaxed atmosphere. The film starts on the basis of one object, the key. It makes the audiance ask the question. What does it open? This engages the viewer to the film they are watching and helps them understand the plot of the film. It follows on to the ghost that the main character fears, and the whole identification of the ghost is cliched as the audiance and character only get a glimpse of the object of fear, and this is glimpsed behind the character in the cliched view of the over the shoulder shot of the ghost in the reflection of the mirror. Again, this interacts with the bathroom scene which is where the mirror, a inportant prop in the horror cliche, is placed in the film. It continues with its cliches by next showing the main character sleeping on the bed, a vulnerable state which people face everyday which makes the audiance engage by watching the character and the surrounding setting for anything suspicious. The house, which you can hear by the crashing of waves that you can't see, is by the sea. The use of sound editing is crucial in creating a new cliche of the vulnerable way that the woman is by the sea, a dangerous place to be when in danger for fear of drowning. The object which is shown is a creepy looking box, cliched as the key that was at the beginning of the film opens the creepy box, and explains why the ghost of a girl is there. The ghost that is shown in the mirror is then shown in the bathtub which is cliched when she disappears, and continues with the cliche allthrough of the bathroom scene. It adds to the creepy scene further when the reflection of the girl changes in the bathtub into something else that can't be identified. It is cliched and adds curiosity to the viewer, to what it is. To annoy the viewer there is another character which is cliched by telling the main character that the ghost she says that she is seeing is not real, and that she is suffering from a breakdown, this annoys the viewr as they feel that they are stuck with the secret as well that the woman is not insane, because it questions the viewers sanity as well. The creaking of doors in their empty house is cliched as it is contained in all horror films.

I don't watch a lot of horror films, but I like the plots to the films I have analysed as it may use the same cliches but they are used in unique ways for each one, so you never feel like you are watching the same thing twice. This makes you feel new in te setting each film places you in, and I like the feeling of newness. When I create my opening two minutes, I might consider the genre as my film, but if I don't use this genre then I might use some of the cliches in another genre to make it different.

Spider Man 3 Opening Scene

In Spiderman 3 it starts with a series of titles which are interlinked with the action from the past two films in the background. The use of graphics attracts the reader and hooks them to the screen, and already makes past veiwers feel comfortable with the knowledge of what they have already seen. The action music attracts the veiwer and makes them feel impatient to watch the rest, making past veiwers exited with the knowledge of also knowing there is more to come. The use of the signiture costume is essential in this film as the statement piece informs the veiwer that this is the main character and is easily recognisable to the veiwers who have watched the last two films. There is use of non diagetic sound where Peter Parker introduces himself to everyone watching and it makes the veiwer feel important with the knowledge that only they know who he really is. The scene where Peter Parker is at school he is bullied and it makes the audiance feel sympathy for him as we can relate with the knowledge that we have been in the similar situation of feeling uncomfortable ourselves. The action genre attracts males of a young age and being the character he is attracts the females with his personality. This is a good film as it attracts different age and audiances such as families and can also attract parents who watch this with their children. The different camera veiws make it spontanious when Peter Parker is Spiderman, mainly using the low angle shot to make him look more superior and you get the knowledge he is high above the ground. When he is Peter Parker however the high angle shot is used to make him look vulnerable to the audiance. The mix of the two keep the audiance guessing and wondering about what is to come.

This film works with all its camera shots and movements but its not particularly to my interest, as I think its aimed for for the male audiance because of the constant action. I will consider the different ways they use the camera shots however in my opening two minutes.

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Research and Planning 16/20: Well done Kellie - a really impressive start to your research and planning and if you keep this up you will be working in band one for this section of your coursework. Really insightful analysis. To improve your level start to relate your responses to your own production work - is the genre you are analysing one you would like to create a film within? Also add some mindmaps and youtube uploads to make your blog visually stunning. Well done Kellie!

Jeepers Creepers - Horror Film Cliches

Jeepers Creepers conatins many different cliches that create the first minutes of the film, this happens from the beginning where you are opened to the scene by two teenagers driving in a car in a cliched rural countryside, this is cliched because it represents the vulnerable state of being outside alone with nobody to hear you if you scream, which is the  purpose of this genre. The teenagers are relaxed on this country scene, which tells the viewer that they don't know what is about to happen yet, and the gore that the audiance know is going to happen hasn't started. The two teenagers are portrayed as arrogant and self observant, which makes the viewer angry and annoyed at the sight of them, which brings out the audiances darkest desires of wanting to kill them. It makes the audiance feel superior as they have the upper hand in knowledge and they get to sit and watch as they know that the teenagers are inevitably going to get killed. The cliche of the boy and girl cruising along in a car on a deserted road gives the stereotypical view of freedom and arrogance as they are going over the speed limit to impress each other. The non diegetic music plays in the background to the action again to notify the veiwer that there is going to be some gore which is what the film is suspending us for, it is cliched but it is also how it attracts the audiance to follow and pay attention.
We can see with the wide camera shot in the pane of glass behind the teenagers that a car behind is destroyed, which is cliched as again the audiance know more about the surroundings as the characters do as they continue to talk and be self absorbed.
Whilst the audiance know that something is happening the characters continue to converse and we discover the cliche of the day that the horror is happening as being being an important day to them, for Jeepers Creepers it is the death of someone they knew on the same day the audiance are put in one year ago.

The main important scenario is when they continue to drive and find the big cliche of the film. It starts with them finding the creepy house on the creepy road in the creepy woods, in the middle of nowhere. This is very effective as the emptyness of the area is significant to making this broken shattered house looking creepy which is the aim of the genre, and it succeeds this by the characters playing along that this is something to be feared.

To add to the fear of this scene you get the cliched glimpse of the object of fear, the man who you need to be scared of. The next scene is another chase scene to get away from the objectivity of fear. Then there is next the cliched problem of the phone not being able to work, there just happens to be no signal in the time of need. The car is then taken off of the road, and breaks down in an empty rural setting. This makes the reader question what they are going to do next to get out of the situation.

Ashes to Ashes car explosion analysis - 46 minutes in

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Ashes to Ashes is a Series which has continued from Life On Mars, which involves the character Alex Drake, DI in phsycology, who has been shot. Because of this, she has woken up in the year 1981, but she is actually in a comative state. She tries to find her way back home with the help of her DCI in this world who was in the last Life On Mars Series, Gene Hunt. Gene Hunt is the mysogonist 1980's homophobic and racialist copper of those times, and misunderstands Alex in her ways of the 20th century. Alex thinks her only way to getr out of her coma, and effectively out of 1981 is to save her parents in this time, who were killed in a car explosion.

The explosion scene starts with Alex as the 1981 child of her time, and it follows the exact scene that happens in the explosion. There is a close up of her sitting in the car that is about to explode. As the young Alex looks up the camera pans to see the small balloon she is staring up at, this suggests to the reader the childish view of the situation as she is pining over the balloon. The music is tense and atmospheric because the audiance know of the explosion that is about to happen, but the characters playing don't. This makes the viewer feel more involved but it also makes them engage with what they are seeing by trying to make the characters understand the situation the viewer knows they are in.
It follows to a close up of the key in the car followed by dramatic music as he turns it. This makes the audiance tense at the suspension of knowing that the car will blow up. But it is followed on to the music of David Bowie 'Ashes to Ashes' on the car radio. This relieves the viewer as the music built up false tension and it didn't deliver the ending people wanted. The song is effective as the tension starts to regrow after the audiance have made the connection that the entire Series was called Ashes to Ashes because of the particular song playing in the car. This diagetic music is played throughout the car at a wide shot of all three relatives in the car, mother, father and daughter, young Alex.
As the camera focuses its attention back to young Alex it then reinterprets as the childish figure of looking out the window at the balloon, which is followed using a tracking shot. This helps the target audiance, who are aged 18 or higher, to understand the feeling of youth again.
Whilst the music keeps playing the camera tracks the image of a man walking alongside, and the connotation to the viewer is that he looks angry, miserable and poor. Sound effects are used as the music makes a loud pitched dramatic noise that keeps the viewer in suspense about what is going to happen.
The camera zooms in on the windmirror that the viewer can identify from the area it has been placed that it is from young Alex's point of view, and it zooms in on the smile in her fathers eyes. This signals to the viewer that he is relaxed and calm in the situation we know he is gathered in.
The music stops suddenly to dramatically move us on to the Alex of the 20th century with the other character Gene Hunt driving in the car. This sudden change alerts the viewer that something is about to happen that could change the course of this. The car is driving and we can tell this by the synchronous sound of the engine that is used in the background. It has been used in a wide shot view to establish to the reader that they are in the car. Diegetic voice is used by the Older Alex to aknowledge the other character in the scene. When the car has to suddenly stop the sound of the horn is used in a asynchronous way to establish that he is pressing it down in anger.
The shot of the van pulling back was a still shot and the image on the truck shocks the older Alex into understanding the situation, her parents are about to be killed. This excites the reader that something else is about to happen.
You then get the image of the younger Alex running out of the car and towards the balloon, this shows the childish youth as she is focused on an mundane object. This is done in a wide shot to see the image of the man who is smoking far away. the camera focuses on this man. The audiance feel connected as they know what danger is about to happen which is also signalled in the mood music. The parents are also shouting from the car oblivious to the incident that is about to happen.
The camera quickly jumps from one scene to another to show the blind hurry of the situation that is happening, this keeps the viewer interested in the situation that is happening.
There is an image of a man running quickly along which alerts the reader of one person who knows the danger. He is shouting 'TIM!' repeatedly, signalling one of the characters that cannot be seen on screen. This suggests to the viewer again of the blind alertness of the situation but also that something is about to happen.
The slow motion of the girl as she gets her balloon, this gives the viewer an insight to the childness view of the young Alex. This also makes the older viewers understand the lack of attention this young girl is paying.
The next image is of the father close up in the car. He is now put close up on the camera so you can see the full image of what he really is. The happiness that was shown firstly in the past two minutes shows the image of what Alex was seeing as a young child, failing to apprehend the terror his face actually shows in the car.
The father is graphicallly changed to see the image of a clown, this image is shown to the plot of the storyline for this epidose and the costumes represents the clown that has been following her in images ever since she was in a coma. the Mise-en-Scene of this costume and make-up reveals to the viewer that he is the man who blew up the car.
This ends with a wide shot of the car being blown up in slow motion. The effect of this is that it is shown as a tragic event, and the graphics work well with the scene to make this car blowing up look realistic. The audiance is hooked as they know that young Alex's mum and dad have been killed, and the audiance is shocked into silence for what is going to happen next....

I particularly like this Series as it reflects the 80's with its Mise-en-scene, the way the hair is permed and the costumes are that of the 1980's. This adds effect to when the viewer is watching and makes it believable that we are in fact in that particular time period. Compared with my House analysis, this again uses music to represent how the audiance should be feeling, which creates tension. I think this type of thing is what I might consider doing, using Mise-en-Scene to my advantage and make the viewer of my opening two minutes believe they are somewhere else or in another time period.

House Season 6 Episode 1 Opening two minutes

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In this epidose which is lead up by the other series, Dr Gregory House is under the influence of Vicodin, a dangerous and addictive narcotic that he has lived off of ever since he had a blod clot in his leg. He then starts hullucinating as he has taken too much of this narcotic and ends up in a mental institute detoxing from the drugs. This is the first two minutes of Season 6 that the audiance can see that he is detoxing.

In the opening few seconds you can see House lying on the hospital bed, this is shown in a high angle shot to interpret to the viewer that he is vulnerable in his state. The camera uses a different lense to make the area and atmosphere more grey, this immediatly signals to the viewer that this is the emotions that House is feeling in his struggle to give up the drugs. There are many close up and zooming shot to look closely at the expression on his face, and it tells the reader that it is sad and withdrawn, the grey scale working well with the shot as it takes away any sense of colour out of his eyes, which shows that he is now a lifeless figure in the hospital bed.
The music that is played is very deadbeat and emotive, which represents the feelings that is swimming in House's mind. It works well with the far away shot of a woman looking through the bloted door to his hospital room. This shows a sense of confusion and worry to the viewer as it then features a close up of House looking forlornly at the woman. This is shown as a connotation.
As the music continues to play it zooms in on his hand clutching his leg, this tells the viewer that his leg is a significant part to the plot of this Series. The hand moves further upwards which the camera follows in a panning shot where it is placed against the wall in a clenched fist. The only colour that can be seen is the blue in his veins, this could show the coldness that he feels when being alone in the room.
The birds eye view of House when he clutches himself in the feutol position alerts the viewer into knowing that he is vulnerable and alone in where he is, it also lets us see the surroundings that he has been placed in. It is just white, dull, boring, but it is essential as it is the stereotypical idea of what the viewer thinks a mental home should look like.
Making another form of medication a prop which needs to be zoomed in on is vital as the expression of hopelessness on House's face indicates it is not the same medication he used to be on, it then goes to pan around other fataly ill patients and again reinforces our stereotypical view of all patients being crazy and overexaggerating it.
The name of the Series is shown over the action to tell the reader what it is called. It also adds the names of the characters and directors as this Series is aimed for an older age group, about 18 or over.
The white costumes again note to the reader that he is an ill patient, and the sick that is wiped of of him by a nurse tells the viewer that he is too out of control over his pain he can't do anything for himself.
Repeating the action again of a different coloured pain medication tells the viewer that this is how House sees his life, the same misery that happens exactly the same day after day.
Even with the non-diagetic music playing, House's voice becomes diagetic to the scene where he screams for help. The use voice overs on the banging of the door to add tension to the atmosphere of his recovery.
The viewer feels further remorse for House as he is then handcuffed to his bed, which is shown through close up shots of his hands and feet.
The two minutes finishes with houses limbs going weak, signalling to the reader he has passed out. To fit with this the non-diagetic music finishes playing.

I think this is good for the age group that it is aimed for as it is quick paced but still adds mystery which the older age group like. The main audiance for this Series is Americans as it is funded by the American company fox, and all the actors are American except for Hugh Laurie, who plays House, but plays an American accent. House is one of my favourite series so i decided to use this as inspiration for what I could create for my recordings. I like how the music explains the atmosphere in the first two minutes of this clip, and I would like to do something similar for my opening two minutes recording. Before I decide whether this is something to do permantly I am going to research other genres in films and series to find out what type of genre I would like to use and whether I would like to include a cliche into the film. The idea of the music I will take on board however as it appeals to me how non diegetic noise can have such an impact on the audiance.