We are currently considering what genre we would like to use for our film and have been given the task of re-making three film openings of the following genres: Comedy, Horror and Thriller. Of the choices we were given, we chose to re-make Juno (2007), Vertigo (1958) and The Strangers (2008). I have analysed each opening so that I am more familiar with particular aspects of the genre and how it is shown. It is also to help us look at the combination of timings with regards to narrative, music and titles.
JUNO (2007)
Narrative: A teenage girl walking around a town, possibly local to her, she is going somewhere.
Character: Girl drinking Sunny D, tom boy clothes, teenager and perhaps the runners are significant.
Atmosphere: Light hearted, happy, relaxed
Themes: Friendship and Love – family? due to the style of music and lyrics.
Setting: Town and local streets, she seems to know the area.
Sound: Happy music singing about friendship and love and sticking together. The style of music is comical, fitting in with the genre.
Titles: Cartoon writing, bright colours and 3-d lettering that emphasise the comical, not serious element.
Vertigo (1958)
Genre: Thriller
Narrative: Woman’s face, alone in dark? Eyes look shocked suddenly, scared
Character: Innocent woman who is alone, perhaps kidnapped?
Atmosphere: Tense, scary, frightening
Themes: the symbol that comes from her eye is quite hypnotic and disorientating
Setting: unknown, somewhere dark, increases tension and questioning
Sound: Music is quite tense and hypnotic
Titles: Capitals showing the genre is very serious and the titles appear each time the music becomes more intense and the film titles itself: Vertigo comes from the woman’s eye which indicates the idea of hypnosis again.
Genre: Horror
Narrative: A voice and subtitles give an outline of the films context and plot explaining that it is based on true events and states that ‘brutal events’ are involved.
Character: We are told about two characters – Kristen McKay and James Hoyt and it is implied that something terrible will happen to them.
Atmosphere: Very tense, talking about crimes and the use of fade to blacks indicate the idea of the unknown.
Themes: Danger, crime, fear
Setting: A ‘summer home’ in America
Sound: A mysterious voice is used to read out the words on the screen, which is quite frightening. We can hear only the sound of a car engine and the sound of the wind as the car moves along.
Titles: There are no titles in this opening and the words at the start are very plainly written in orange text which gives the idea of seriousness and by not revealing any titles gives the fear of the unknowen and makes the content seem very real.
In our group, we have decided to each create a storyboard and shot-list for one film each and then we will work together to film the openings. This was to make sure that the work was distributed equally and that we all were making an input to the task.
In our group, we have decided to each create a storyboard and shot-list for one film each and then we will work together to film the openings. This was to make sure that the work was distributed equally and that we all were making an input to the task.
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