What to look for:
- Shot sizes
- Shot angles
- Shot durations
- Transitions & Overall place
- Sound effects
- Use of music
- Title fonts and colours
- Colour palette & lighting
- Setting
- Types of characters & their contexts
- Storyline/plot development
- Overall tone/mood/atmosphere
The Judge
- Guitar - Fades in & out
- Transition - Slow fade in & out
- Depth of Field - flowers
- Title - Serif (More Traditional)
- Change in music - Quicker Pace
- Extreme long shot of City
- Dialogue in office toilet
- Colour tone - Blues, Whites, Greys / Corresponds with the colour of their suits
- Cool palette
- High Key Lighting
Forrest Gump
- Soft, soothing music - Piano
- Feather softly floats around the city (It floats smoothly with the music)
- Shot: Begins at the top of the building, ends at street level
- Has a slow pace
- When the shot gets closer to the ground - more ambient sounds (cars, wind etc.)
- Natural lighting
- Setting - Large town
- Character (Tom Hanks) waiting at a bus stop
- Happy and gentle mood
The Time Travellers Wife
- Violin over production title
- On going melodic voice (Mother singing in the car)
- Setting: Christmas - Winter
- Night time - Low lighting
- Quick transition - Fast pace
- Small shot sizes - Eye Level
- Tense, threatening & worrying
The Descendants
- Hawaiian Music - Ukulele
- Hawaiian flower background, mix of warm & cool colours
- Changes to sad, melodic music when the hospital is shown
- Narration - voice over
From this, I gathered that the most intriguing film opening was 'The Time Travellers wife' as it was very intense and creates a dramatic atmosphere for the audience. This is similar to the horror genre we will be working towards due to the use of low lighting and sharp sound effects.
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