Coming To America - 1988.
- Male narrator with typical voice.
- Not cautious about using the word ‘black’ to define the colour of people.
- Less match on actions.
- Simple cuts.
- Queens English.
When Harry Met Sally - 1989.
- Text appeared first, before introduction of characters.
- No confusion, He is definitely Harry and her definitely Sally: Titles name them straight away.
- Simple music, tapping single keys on a piano/keyboard.
- Simple shots. Long, mid or close up.
- No snappy cuts, just simple cuts when a clip is finished.
- Lack of complication. - audience don’t have to think about anything.
- Possibly lack’s comedy. Not much, if any, is shown in the trailer.
As Good As It Gets - 1997.
- More of a theme tune.
- Male narrator.
- Immediate comedic line, runs all the way through too.
- Simple cuts, no nasty dissolving. Not fancy, but just fine.
- Hard to figure out what’s really going to happen.
Just Like Heaven - 2005.
- Girly music, with a male voice over.
- Simple, yet effective, soundtrack from beginning.
- Titles.
- Cut.
- More fading of text onto black background.
- Comedy runs throughout.
- Match on actions appear more often.
- Faster pace.
- Actual song in the trailer!
My Sassy Girl - 2008.
- Male narrator.
- More use of speech from the film, and match on action. - Speech becomes a diagetic voice over, and parallel action runs on screen.
- Perfect movie. I love it!
- Swipe from right to left moved time forward. - more daring?
- Music fits with trailer. When the
The Ugly Truth - 2009.
- Cuts, Fades.
- Comedy from beginning.
- Just generally better.
Stereotype hasn’t changed! Typical man & woman, fall in love, complication, reunite.
we used to think that it would be forever but we never thought forever would go this fast.
Saturday, 24 October 2009
possible directors.
Potential Director : Garry Marshall.
Experienced with Romantic Comedy films such as: The Princess Diaries 1 & 2, Runaway Bride, Raising Helen, Beaches, Young Doctors in Love and Nothing in Common. He’s spent time on other movies too, even though they don’t fit into the Romantic Comedy genre, they still count as experience.
He’s written, produced, and starred in many movies, and is obviously a worthy director. This leads me to believe that he has many exceptionally developed skills to bring to the movie, and will understand the acting, writing and production as well as being the director of our movie.
Potential Director : Mike Nichols.
Not as much experience as Garry Marshall, but still extremely more experienced that me! He’s directed movies such as Harry Potter, which don’t fit our genre, and also Heartbreak Hotel, Closer and Heartburn which all fit into the Rom-Com genre.
He’s a recognised actor and producer also, leading me to believe that he, like Garry Marshall, would identify with my actors and the producer to create an amazing film.
These are the only two directors I found that fit well, and seemed like a good choice to direct our movie.
it is a bright moment there in the music, as light and rain collide above the stage. it feels like healing. it is certainly hope.
Experienced with Romantic Comedy films such as: The Princess Diaries 1 & 2, Runaway Bride, Raising Helen, Beaches, Young Doctors in Love and Nothing in Common. He’s spent time on other movies too, even though they don’t fit into the Romantic Comedy genre, they still count as experience.
He’s written, produced, and starred in many movies, and is obviously a worthy director. This leads me to believe that he has many exceptionally developed skills to bring to the movie, and will understand the acting, writing and production as well as being the director of our movie.
Potential Director : Mike Nichols.
Not as much experience as Garry Marshall, but still extremely more experienced that me! He’s directed movies such as Harry Potter, which don’t fit our genre, and also Heartbreak Hotel, Closer and Heartburn which all fit into the Rom-Com genre.
He’s a recognised actor and producer also, leading me to believe that he, like Garry Marshall, would identify with my actors and the producer to create an amazing film.
These are the only two directors I found that fit well, and seemed like a good choice to direct our movie.
it is a bright moment there in the music, as light and rain collide above the stage. it feels like healing. it is certainly hope.
health &safety, and shooting regulations.
Before Shooting Can Commence, these regulations must be met.
(1) Having the name and articles of association of the movie production unit;
(2) Having the controlling unit and the competent organ which is recognized by the administrative department for radio, movie and television under the State Council;
(3) Having a well-defined scope of business;
(4) Having an organization adapted to the needs of its scope of business and a staff of professionals;
(5) Having funds, premises and equipments adapted to the needs of its scope of business;
(6) Other conditions provided for in laws and administrative regulations.
Ultimate responsibility for health and safety lies with the employer. In the film industry this may be the investor/client, producer, production company, contractor, designer, supplier, facilities company or studio.
All film occupations have a health and safety element attached to them, but the following specialist staff are also employed to ensure adequate protection for cast and crew.
Must have a unit nurse on set at all times. Paramedics and other paramedical staff, such as chiropractors, osteopaths, and physiotherapists, are also required at some points on set.
(http://www.hse.gov.uk/business/law.htm)
1 Decide what could harm you in your job and the precautions to stop it. This is
part of risk assessment.
2 In a way you can understand, explain how risks will be controlled and tell you
who is responsible for this.
3 Consult and work with you and your health and safety representatives in
protecting everyone from harm in the workplace.
4 Free of charge, give you the health and safety training you need to do your job.
5 Free of charge, provide you with any equipment and protective clothing you
need, and ensure it is properly looked after.
6 Provide toilets, washing facilities and drinking water.
7 Provide adequate first-aid facilities.
8 Report injuries, diseases and dangerous incidents at work to our Incident
Contact Centre: 0845 300 9923
9 Have insurance that covers you in case you get hurt at work or ill through work.
Display a hard copy or electronic copy of the current insurance certificate where
you can easily read it.
10 Work with any other employers or contractors sharing the workplace or
providing employees (such as agency workers), so that everyone’s health and
safety is protected.
i'll bite my tongue till it bleeds and i doubt you'll even know.
(1) Having the name and articles of association of the movie production unit;
(2) Having the controlling unit and the competent organ which is recognized by the administrative department for radio, movie and television under the State Council;
(3) Having a well-defined scope of business;
(4) Having an organization adapted to the needs of its scope of business and a staff of professionals;
(5) Having funds, premises and equipments adapted to the needs of its scope of business;
(6) Other conditions provided for in laws and administrative regulations.
Ultimate responsibility for health and safety lies with the employer. In the film industry this may be the investor/client, producer, production company, contractor, designer, supplier, facilities company or studio.
All film occupations have a health and safety element attached to them, but the following specialist staff are also employed to ensure adequate protection for cast and crew.
Must have a unit nurse on set at all times. Paramedics and other paramedical staff, such as chiropractors, osteopaths, and physiotherapists, are also required at some points on set.
(http://www.hse.gov.uk/business/law.htm)
1 Decide what could harm you in your job and the precautions to stop it. This is
part of risk assessment.
2 In a way you can understand, explain how risks will be controlled and tell you
who is responsible for this.
3 Consult and work with you and your health and safety representatives in
protecting everyone from harm in the workplace.
4 Free of charge, give you the health and safety training you need to do your job.
5 Free of charge, provide you with any equipment and protective clothing you
need, and ensure it is properly looked after.
6 Provide toilets, washing facilities and drinking water.
7 Provide adequate first-aid facilities.
8 Report injuries, diseases and dangerous incidents at work to our Incident
Contact Centre: 0845 300 9923
9 Have insurance that covers you in case you get hurt at work or ill through work.
Display a hard copy or electronic copy of the current insurance certificate where
you can easily read it.
10 Work with any other employers or contractors sharing the workplace or
providing employees (such as agency workers), so that everyone’s health and
safety is protected.
i'll bite my tongue till it bleeds and i doubt you'll even know.
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
treatment.
The basis of a Romantic comedy lies with two main characters, in love, drifting apart and then rekindling the love they once had. The purpose of a romantic comedy is to attract the audience, and provide simple entertainment for a period of time. There are few special effects, but instead the film is filled with cheesy comedy to put a smile on the audience’s faces.
At the beginning of the film, the audience sees flowers in a school hallway, then the camera pans to see teenagers messing around in the corridor, throwing paper and listening to loud rap music. Jamie and Brett burst through the double doors. Jaime has a stern look on her face, holding hands with Brett. Nathan trails behind holding Brett’s books, struggling and out of breath. The whole corridor silences and they stare at Brett & Jaime, whereas no one even sees Nathan. The bell rings and everyone goes to lesson, Brett and Jaime sit in the middle. Amidst, Nathan has to sit in front next to the stereotype obese loner child.
As the bell rings for the end of lesson, Jaime and Brett say their goodbyes and imply that they are going to a party or prom that night. The scene cuts to Jaime getting ready, screaming that she doesn’t look right and making her mum get her ready properly. She bosses her around, as her mother runs around doing everything she asks her to. Jaime doesn’t appreciate it.
Nathan turns up outside Jaime’s house and stands on her doorstep, in a suit, preparing his lines, with a flower. ‘Jaime, will you come to the prom? Jaime, I love you, will you come to the prom with me? Jaime, I love you more than Brett does, come to the prom with me instead?’ He then rings the doorbell, Jaime answers in a hurry and the camera shows that Nathan is holding a flower for Jaime. When the door opens, Jaime drags Nathan in and says ‘Hey! Nathan, thanks for coming to help me get ready!’ He puts the flower behind his back and the camera sees Nathan’s face fall, and his heart break.
Brett bursts through the door and runs upstairs to Jaime, where he sees Nathan in Jaime’s room. He gets a little confused but then realizes that nothing is going on, so he grabs her, kisses her and forces her downstairs. Nathan follows behind but they have already driven off, he begins to sit on the sidewalk and looks at his watch and taps his foot, in the background we can see reversing lights and the car reverses. Nathan reluctantly gets into the back seat of their car. It is implied to the audience this is a regular routine.
They turn up at the prom. Jaime and Brett go in and everyone stares again. Nathan stays outside, staring at the stars, talking to a stray cat about his problems. The cat poops on his shoe and walks off. Nathan sneaks into the prom and goes to the toilet to clean his shoe.
Nathan looks into the mirror and begins practicing his speech for Jaime later that night, for her to fall in love with him. Half way through, a drunk rushes in and throws up on his other shoe. Nathan gets angry whilst washing his shoe irately.
As Nathan leaves the bathroom, he is confronted by a drunken Brett who insists that he needs a walk outside. They go for a walk, in which Brett tells Nathan his plans of proposing to Jaime at the end of the night Nathan is visibly worried but Brett cannot tell as he is too intoxicated. Nathan then watches Brett befriends a cat by proposing to it as it were Jaime, and it runs up in to the tree and he follows. The audience notice is it the same cat which recently the only thing was listening to Nathan’s problems. Brett tries to get the cat down, while Nathan has his back to Brett, looking for a phone in his pocket to call the Fireman. He dials 911 gives the details and walks off. Brett is unaware of this, gets impatient and attempts to climb the tree to save the cat. In doing so, he falls, hits his head and becomes unconscious. After desperately trying to revive him, Nathan calls an ambulance because there is no sign of him waking up. He is rushed into hospital.
At the hospital, Jaime and Nathan have bonding time whilst waiting for news on Brett’s condition. They wait for hour upon tedious hour for news on how he is doing, but get delivered the news of his death because of the trauma caused to his head. He dies in hospital, leaving Jaime and Nathan grieving the loss of their best friend they cry and cuddle and get closer. They spend the night together. The morning after, Nathan voices his concerns over them getting together just after Brett’s death and tells Jaime that he was going to propose to her the night he died. She gets angry and asks him to leave.
3 years later, Nathan runs into Jaime and Lois at the graveyard and fall in love with each other at first sight and spend the next few weeks avoiding the fact that they‘re falling in love. Eventually, they resolve their issues about Brett and get together.
While spending months together Nathan decides it’s time to get married, and proposes to Jaime. She accepts, of course, and plans go ahead.
As the wedding day approaches Nathan feels guilty still, but assumes it will go away once the day arrives. When it does, Jaime begins to show signs she is the same as she was at prom with her mum. She bosses her around, showing how time has only changed, Jaime hasn’t.
At the alter everything is fine until it gets to the part where Nathan has to agree to take Jaime as his wife, and simultaneously Brett appears. He’s stood right in front of him, but of course he’s not alive. He’s a ghost, come back to haunt him. Nathan freaks out, and decides he can’t marry Jaime right now. She takes it personally, and they decide to have a break until he figures out exactly what he wants.
Jaime cries to Lois about it and Lois lets slip she is sure she saw Brett appear at the altar at the same time as Nathan was going to say ‘I do’ and Jamie freaks out. Amidst all this Nathan gets to the bottom of why Brett is back to haunt him. They playfully joke about how bad purgatory is, and why he felt the need to come back, whereas Jaime is upset about the whole ordeal.
Jaime admits to Lois that she loves him, and Lois questions whether she meant Brett. Parallelism will be used here, as the movie cuts to the person who is mentioned.
E.g. Jaime: ‘I love him, y’know?’
Cut to Nathan saying ‘dude, I love her...’
Cut to Lois replying ‘Brett?’
Cut to Brett saying ‘Lois?’
Cut to Jaime saying ‘Nathan...’
Cut to Nathan saying ‘Jaime...’
Cut to Lois saying ‘Nathan?!’
Cut to Brett saying ‘WHAT?’
Cut to Jaime saying ‘Yes...’
Cut to Brett pushing Nathan for stealing his girl.
Then a fight breaks out on a field, Nathan fighting air because nobody else can see Brett. Nathan starts to walk off believing he is hallucinating, Brett follows and begins to explain the situation. He explains that he is unwilling to accept the fact that Jamie is getting married to someone else, and that’s why he’s back and until he is sure that they both love each other as much as he did then he is stuck with Nathan all of the time. Nathan goes home with Brett in tow and Brett says he’s going to use the shower because heaven has ‘really advanced showers’ that no one taught him how to use, and so has not had a shower in the 3 years since he died.
Jaime comes home and Nathan tries to hide the fact that something’s wrong, as does Jaime because she secretly knows Brett’s around too. They get intimate and begin making out, at which point Brett walks in and Nathan gets visibly uncomfortable. Brett sits on the bed; he sits there in silence and then leaves. They carry on making out and Brett walks in drinking beer and eating popcorn and tells Nathan to carry on. Jamie is really confused as Nathan is making faces at a blank wall. She twigs eventually but does not say anything.
A few days later Jaime and Nathan go to the cinema and Brett accompanies them. Nathan goes to sit next to Jaime and Brett pushes him out the way and sits next to her. Jaime gets sick of pretending and begins to shout into thin air in front of the whole cinema. She tells him to move on and get a life. The whole cinema turns around and they get embarrassed and leave.
They go home and Nathan plays interpreter as Jaime and Brett have a conversation and sort things out. Brett explains why he can’t leave and Jaime attempts to convince him that whilst she missed him, she’s in love with Nathan and is happy. He becomes upset but is convinced it’s true and believes it is actually true love. They wait for him to disappear but he doesn’t it turns from a happy moment to a very awkward one as Jaime, with her eyes closed shouts ‘HAS HE GONE YET?!’
They ponder over reasons as to why he has not disappeared; eventually they come to the conclusion that Brett must prove he is happy to whoever has put him here by helping them finally get married. Brett helps with the wedding, and they get married. As they’re walking down the aisle with Brett on one side of Jaime and Nathan on the other, Brett slowly disappears and they’re at peace.
it's natural to fall in love, but love is for people with hearts not for the kids just brushing up on their chemistry.
At the beginning of the film, the audience sees flowers in a school hallway, then the camera pans to see teenagers messing around in the corridor, throwing paper and listening to loud rap music. Jamie and Brett burst through the double doors. Jaime has a stern look on her face, holding hands with Brett. Nathan trails behind holding Brett’s books, struggling and out of breath. The whole corridor silences and they stare at Brett & Jaime, whereas no one even sees Nathan. The bell rings and everyone goes to lesson, Brett and Jaime sit in the middle. Amidst, Nathan has to sit in front next to the stereotype obese loner child.
As the bell rings for the end of lesson, Jaime and Brett say their goodbyes and imply that they are going to a party or prom that night. The scene cuts to Jaime getting ready, screaming that she doesn’t look right and making her mum get her ready properly. She bosses her around, as her mother runs around doing everything she asks her to. Jaime doesn’t appreciate it.
Nathan turns up outside Jaime’s house and stands on her doorstep, in a suit, preparing his lines, with a flower. ‘Jaime, will you come to the prom? Jaime, I love you, will you come to the prom with me? Jaime, I love you more than Brett does, come to the prom with me instead?’ He then rings the doorbell, Jaime answers in a hurry and the camera shows that Nathan is holding a flower for Jaime. When the door opens, Jaime drags Nathan in and says ‘Hey! Nathan, thanks for coming to help me get ready!’ He puts the flower behind his back and the camera sees Nathan’s face fall, and his heart break.
Brett bursts through the door and runs upstairs to Jaime, where he sees Nathan in Jaime’s room. He gets a little confused but then realizes that nothing is going on, so he grabs her, kisses her and forces her downstairs. Nathan follows behind but they have already driven off, he begins to sit on the sidewalk and looks at his watch and taps his foot, in the background we can see reversing lights and the car reverses. Nathan reluctantly gets into the back seat of their car. It is implied to the audience this is a regular routine.
They turn up at the prom. Jaime and Brett go in and everyone stares again. Nathan stays outside, staring at the stars, talking to a stray cat about his problems. The cat poops on his shoe and walks off. Nathan sneaks into the prom and goes to the toilet to clean his shoe.
Nathan looks into the mirror and begins practicing his speech for Jaime later that night, for her to fall in love with him. Half way through, a drunk rushes in and throws up on his other shoe. Nathan gets angry whilst washing his shoe irately.
As Nathan leaves the bathroom, he is confronted by a drunken Brett who insists that he needs a walk outside. They go for a walk, in which Brett tells Nathan his plans of proposing to Jaime at the end of the night Nathan is visibly worried but Brett cannot tell as he is too intoxicated. Nathan then watches Brett befriends a cat by proposing to it as it were Jaime, and it runs up in to the tree and he follows. The audience notice is it the same cat which recently the only thing was listening to Nathan’s problems. Brett tries to get the cat down, while Nathan has his back to Brett, looking for a phone in his pocket to call the Fireman. He dials 911 gives the details and walks off. Brett is unaware of this, gets impatient and attempts to climb the tree to save the cat. In doing so, he falls, hits his head and becomes unconscious. After desperately trying to revive him, Nathan calls an ambulance because there is no sign of him waking up. He is rushed into hospital.
At the hospital, Jaime and Nathan have bonding time whilst waiting for news on Brett’s condition. They wait for hour upon tedious hour for news on how he is doing, but get delivered the news of his death because of the trauma caused to his head. He dies in hospital, leaving Jaime and Nathan grieving the loss of their best friend they cry and cuddle and get closer. They spend the night together. The morning after, Nathan voices his concerns over them getting together just after Brett’s death and tells Jaime that he was going to propose to her the night he died. She gets angry and asks him to leave.
3 years later, Nathan runs into Jaime and Lois at the graveyard and fall in love with each other at first sight and spend the next few weeks avoiding the fact that they‘re falling in love. Eventually, they resolve their issues about Brett and get together.
While spending months together Nathan decides it’s time to get married, and proposes to Jaime. She accepts, of course, and plans go ahead.
As the wedding day approaches Nathan feels guilty still, but assumes it will go away once the day arrives. When it does, Jaime begins to show signs she is the same as she was at prom with her mum. She bosses her around, showing how time has only changed, Jaime hasn’t.
At the alter everything is fine until it gets to the part where Nathan has to agree to take Jaime as his wife, and simultaneously Brett appears. He’s stood right in front of him, but of course he’s not alive. He’s a ghost, come back to haunt him. Nathan freaks out, and decides he can’t marry Jaime right now. She takes it personally, and they decide to have a break until he figures out exactly what he wants.
Jaime cries to Lois about it and Lois lets slip she is sure she saw Brett appear at the altar at the same time as Nathan was going to say ‘I do’ and Jamie freaks out. Amidst all this Nathan gets to the bottom of why Brett is back to haunt him. They playfully joke about how bad purgatory is, and why he felt the need to come back, whereas Jaime is upset about the whole ordeal.
Jaime admits to Lois that she loves him, and Lois questions whether she meant Brett. Parallelism will be used here, as the movie cuts to the person who is mentioned.
E.g. Jaime: ‘I love him, y’know?’
Cut to Nathan saying ‘dude, I love her...’
Cut to Lois replying ‘Brett?’
Cut to Brett saying ‘Lois?’
Cut to Jaime saying ‘Nathan...’
Cut to Nathan saying ‘Jaime...’
Cut to Lois saying ‘Nathan?!’
Cut to Brett saying ‘WHAT?’
Cut to Jaime saying ‘Yes...’
Cut to Brett pushing Nathan for stealing his girl.
Then a fight breaks out on a field, Nathan fighting air because nobody else can see Brett. Nathan starts to walk off believing he is hallucinating, Brett follows and begins to explain the situation. He explains that he is unwilling to accept the fact that Jamie is getting married to someone else, and that’s why he’s back and until he is sure that they both love each other as much as he did then he is stuck with Nathan all of the time. Nathan goes home with Brett in tow and Brett says he’s going to use the shower because heaven has ‘really advanced showers’ that no one taught him how to use, and so has not had a shower in the 3 years since he died.
Jaime comes home and Nathan tries to hide the fact that something’s wrong, as does Jaime because she secretly knows Brett’s around too. They get intimate and begin making out, at which point Brett walks in and Nathan gets visibly uncomfortable. Brett sits on the bed; he sits there in silence and then leaves. They carry on making out and Brett walks in drinking beer and eating popcorn and tells Nathan to carry on. Jamie is really confused as Nathan is making faces at a blank wall. She twigs eventually but does not say anything.
A few days later Jaime and Nathan go to the cinema and Brett accompanies them. Nathan goes to sit next to Jaime and Brett pushes him out the way and sits next to her. Jaime gets sick of pretending and begins to shout into thin air in front of the whole cinema. She tells him to move on and get a life. The whole cinema turns around and they get embarrassed and leave.
They go home and Nathan plays interpreter as Jaime and Brett have a conversation and sort things out. Brett explains why he can’t leave and Jaime attempts to convince him that whilst she missed him, she’s in love with Nathan and is happy. He becomes upset but is convinced it’s true and believes it is actually true love. They wait for him to disappear but he doesn’t it turns from a happy moment to a very awkward one as Jaime, with her eyes closed shouts ‘HAS HE GONE YET?!’
They ponder over reasons as to why he has not disappeared; eventually they come to the conclusion that Brett must prove he is happy to whoever has put him here by helping them finally get married. Brett helps with the wedding, and they get married. As they’re walking down the aisle with Brett on one side of Jaime and Nathan on the other, Brett slowly disappears and they’re at peace.
it's natural to fall in love, but love is for people with hearts not for the kids just brushing up on their chemistry.
research.
Usually two protagonists, a man and woman, fall in love. They part ways due to some obstacle or argument, then reunite years later only to fall in love all over again. It's a hybrid drama, commonly appealing more to the female audience than the male, unless a a romantic comedy and stoner comedy are combined like in 'Knocked Up'.
recent films and their ratings/profits.
taken from www.boxofficemojo.com.
Trailer: The Devil Wears Prada.
The first shot we see is of a girl, presumably the main character. There is an establishing shot of a building, and from its structure we gather we're in New York City. The music is introduced right from the beginning, giving a lively beat to the trailer.
A diagetic voice over suggests who the character is that we see next. The voice introduces her as Miranda Priestly, as she gets out of the lift. This voice over is diagetic, and taken from within the script but added on top of the footage. We then see the actual conversation, which runs over the top of Miranda's introduction to Andy, the main character. The audience is led to believe that a conversation is happening, yet this has just been created during editing. Jump cut's between two conversations, created one altogether.
To show the power Miranda has, she is extensively ringing Andy throughout the trailer, giving extreme demands and even stops the music when she's talking. The bouncy beat is cut when Miranda is saying something important, suggesting she is the top dog in this film.
There is a small amount of speech in this trailer, which leaves the footage to tell the story more than people. The snapping of pictures connotes fashion, runways, catwalks, everything the film is about, really. The flash is also used to cut from one scene to another on odd occasions too.
The comedic element runs through the trailer, enticing its audience to watch the film. It also ends on a funny line, which is contrasted. She says that it's only drizzling, as thunder echoes around the hotel room as she's looking out over a beautiful setting.
Scene Count: 59.
Trailer: John Tucker Must Die. - SOPHIA BUSH!
Immediately the soundtrack kicks in with a popular number one song, which almost everybody has heard of, and knows. The high school setting is put in place as a cheerleader is the first thing we see. She's cheering at a basketball game, hinting that we are definitely watching high school kids.
The voice over is done by a girl, suggesting that she's the main character. This is suggested because most voice overs are done by a male voice, whom is not always in the movie. She states what the story is about, as the boy we assume to be called 'John Tucker' is on screen, showing off.
The song is called 'Dirty Little Secret' and is obviously used to show that he's keeping 3 girls secrets from each other, until they blow it and fight over him. The one girl, with the voice of reason, ends up starting their plan to break his heart, and hurt him immensely.
The music changes drastically as they find out the truth, it changes to a more intense, secretive song which reminds me, personally, of James Bond, or some spy movie. The speech in this movie has comedic value, as they tell the honest truth and their parents don't think it's wrong.
The music disappears, and everything is silent as the two girls are in the car together. They kiss, shocking the audience, and evidently the boy watching. The music kicks back in with another number one hit, fitting in with the girl on screen wearing little clothes as the song says about a 'hot' girlfriend.ew at the word hot :/.
They play dirty, yet he still manages to overcome everything they throw his way. The title of the film is then said, word by word, by each main female character. This film's audience, I personally think, is more feminine. Not only because typical romantic comedies are aimed at a female audience, but because of the main characters trying to get revenge on a boy. It's highly likely that most girls have felt some kind of heartbreak from a pathetic boy like John Tucker. The strength to the word 'die' also suggests that they hated being hurt, like most normal people, and will go to extremes to get revenge.
we can't go on like this anymore cause, at the end of the day, you wait for rain and i chase the storm.
recent films and their ratings/profits.
taken from www.boxofficemojo.com.
Trailer: The Devil Wears Prada.
The first shot we see is of a girl, presumably the main character. There is an establishing shot of a building, and from its structure we gather we're in New York City. The music is introduced right from the beginning, giving a lively beat to the trailer.
A diagetic voice over suggests who the character is that we see next. The voice introduces her as Miranda Priestly, as she gets out of the lift. This voice over is diagetic, and taken from within the script but added on top of the footage. We then see the actual conversation, which runs over the top of Miranda's introduction to Andy, the main character. The audience is led to believe that a conversation is happening, yet this has just been created during editing. Jump cut's between two conversations, created one altogether.
To show the power Miranda has, she is extensively ringing Andy throughout the trailer, giving extreme demands and even stops the music when she's talking. The bouncy beat is cut when Miranda is saying something important, suggesting she is the top dog in this film.
There is a small amount of speech in this trailer, which leaves the footage to tell the story more than people. The snapping of pictures connotes fashion, runways, catwalks, everything the film is about, really. The flash is also used to cut from one scene to another on odd occasions too.
The comedic element runs through the trailer, enticing its audience to watch the film. It also ends on a funny line, which is contrasted. She says that it's only drizzling, as thunder echoes around the hotel room as she's looking out over a beautiful setting.
Scene Count: 59.
Trailer: John Tucker Must Die. - SOPHIA BUSH!
Immediately the soundtrack kicks in with a popular number one song, which almost everybody has heard of, and knows. The high school setting is put in place as a cheerleader is the first thing we see. She's cheering at a basketball game, hinting that we are definitely watching high school kids.
The voice over is done by a girl, suggesting that she's the main character. This is suggested because most voice overs are done by a male voice, whom is not always in the movie. She states what the story is about, as the boy we assume to be called 'John Tucker' is on screen, showing off.
The song is called 'Dirty Little Secret' and is obviously used to show that he's keeping 3 girls secrets from each other, until they blow it and fight over him. The one girl, with the voice of reason, ends up starting their plan to break his heart, and hurt him immensely.
The music changes drastically as they find out the truth, it changes to a more intense, secretive song which reminds me, personally, of James Bond, or some spy movie. The speech in this movie has comedic value, as they tell the honest truth and their parents don't think it's wrong.
The music disappears, and everything is silent as the two girls are in the car together. They kiss, shocking the audience, and evidently the boy watching. The music kicks back in with another number one hit, fitting in with the girl on screen wearing little clothes as the song says about a 'hot' girlfriend.
They play dirty, yet he still manages to overcome everything they throw his way. The title of the film is then said, word by word, by each main female character. This film's audience, I personally think, is more feminine. Not only because typical romantic comedies are aimed at a female audience, but because of the main characters trying to get revenge on a boy. It's highly likely that most girls have felt some kind of heartbreak from a pathetic boy like John Tucker. The strength to the word 'die' also suggests that they hated being hurt, like most normal people, and will go to extremes to get revenge.
we can't go on like this anymore cause, at the end of the day, you wait for rain and i chase the storm.
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