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.