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Poster Analysis (Terminator rant)

The first terminator had a budget of $7 million, but brought in a massive $76 million. it established an audience by the electronic feel to the poster, and the clear gun, which indicated an action/sifi. it also shows the main character, making it clear he is the most important character, maybe even more important than the film due to the size of is name. the same is said for the second film, it follows the simple formula of the first film, with the outstanding red 'Schwarzenegger' and the gun in focus. it refreshes it by using a slightly different colour palette.

Terminator 3 begins to stroll away from the tested formula, with Schwarzenegger becoming less important in the poster., but his name remain s at the top in red, although it has now shrunk smaller than the movie title.

The fourth film highlights why Terminator in my opinion is one of the worst film franchises of the last 20 years. Terminator Salvation is a decent film, but doesn't link from Terminator 3. The similarities is that the colour palette is similar to the previous films with gloomy blues and blacks, with an out standing red. This film doesn't feature Schwarzeneger name at all, his name is now replaced by Christian Bale and Sam Worthington's names which is now minuscule to to title. Further contradicting the franchises formula. Replacing Schwarzeneger with two huge actors at the time, the audience would think it would be a very good reason to have them at main attention, but the poster doesn't do this and sides to put a massive robot that dies in the first 10 minutes of the film. On the bright side it establishes a clear sifi/action audience from the huge pointless robot and the action stances.

Terminator Genesis, then breaks all the films past formula's, and then tries to take the attention away from there main character, by selling sex with the Game of Thrones actress flaunting her bum

Sound Analysis

SKIP THE FIRST 37 SECONDS

Goodfellas is thought to be the greatest film ever Directed by Martin Scorsese.

The sequence opens with a very creative title sequence; which shows the credits moving in sync to the sound bridge of vehicles. Scorsese merges both none diegetic, and diegetic sounds into this sequence, to add intrigue from the outset and to entice the viewer to question the art, questions like where the sounds are coming from?, and why did the director choose that moment to begin the film? Scorsese links both sections of this sequence by doing so. From this aspect of the sequence, it is shown that the film is fast paced and well-constructed. Which is very important for the audience to learn whether a film is worth watching.

The last 10 seconds of this clip also uses sound effectively over lapping narration and none diegetic sound, made even more effective by the shot selection. This sequence is where Henry Hill says ‘as far back as I can remember I’ve always wanted to be a gangster’, on the end of that sentence the camera zooms in to almost make the audience take a look into Hill’s life, on the back of the sentence, the music begins marking that moment as an important one. The music played captures the age of the film, building up to at the climactic moment where Hill stars into the distance.

This sequence is extremely ambiguous towards the end, because the music paints the brutal murder as something to be celebrated. From this clip I would assume the genre of the film as being an action with a hint of comedy due to the sound.

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Film Analysis. (I couldn't see the sequence so I went from memory)

The film Juno is a film directed by Jason Reitman. He is known for directing edgy unique films such as 'Men Woman and Children' and 'Sex and The City'.

Juno is a film, about a quirky teenage girl who becomes pregnant. Juno then decides to give the unborn child to adoptive parents. Complications begin when Mark (the prospective father) begins to see his relationship with Juno as more than just the mother of his future child, putting his marriage in jeopardy in the process.

Directors use a selection of camera shots, angles and proximities to show different things. Camera shots are used to show a perspective on a situation, whether the audience should see from an omnipresent view or a point of view shot. Camera shots is key in Juno because quite a lot of emotion portrayed in the film is none verbal, and to avoid using the same shots that won’t make the film interesting to look at. Close ups are used to limit what the audience an see so they focus of a specific area, this is to add the importance of the thing they are looking at, while proximities are used to show the relationship between two or more characters, this shot is mostly used in two shots. It is used in Juno a lot, where Rietman merges a mid-shot in with it so the audience can view the separation, or the closeness of the characters. For example where Juno tells her parents she is pregnant – she is close to her friend but distanced from her parents. Rietman uses interesting camera shots to communicate emotion, and even build up a décor on certain characters.  

The sequence begins with a close up shot of Juno’s face musing out of the car. Showing the reflection of the outside on the window. In shooting this shot like this it doesn’t just show the emotion and the scepticism on Juno’s face but it shows what Juno is actually thinking. Reitman chose to shoot this shot in this was to show Juno daydreaming, then to show what she’s daydreaming at – when then audience realises she isn’t looking at anything, but a street whizzing by, it builds on how confused and nervous she is of meeting the potential adoptive parents.

This scene then cuts to a series of 7 long shots of houses, but the first 3 houses are repeated with the final house being the actual destination. Rietman chooses to repeat the houses to emphasize on how confused Juno and her father are. Also illustrate the verisimilitude of the situation because in reality if something like that was to happen it wouldn’t be out of the expected (getting lost). Looking closer on this section of scene, the selection of shot used for the houses were almost used as establishing shots, to give the audience of the location they are in -  that there area is quite wealthy.

I think this sequence is very interesting, because we see the introduction to the Loring’s and how they are as people. I think the scene where Reitman chose to do close ups of Vanessa’s hands illustrated what type of person she is, to the audience they could have interpreted this to be a perfectionist hands o type of person, and that is what Vanessa turns out to be. 

Poster Analysis

Clips I like

Pursuit Of Happyness. First impression.

Catch Me If You Can. watch the checks.

Law Abiding Citizen. phone call