Opening 7 (zombie genre) Zombieland

Information: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1156398/

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1-jFLlHLPw

Rotten Tomatoes: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/zombieland/

Rating: 7.7/10 IMDB 89% Rotten Tomatoes

Behind the scenes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb0VFNeMTL8

Release Date: 2 October 2009 (USA)

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Horror

Age Rating: R

Director: Ruben Fleischer

Writers: Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick

Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin

Budget: $23,600,000

Gross: 102,391,540

Production Co: Columbia Pictures, Relativity Media, Pariah

Synopsis: A shy student trying to reach his family in Ohio, a gun-toting tough guy trying to find the last Twinkie, and a pair of sisters trying to get to an amusement park join forces to travel across a zombie-filled America.

Length of title sequence: 1:44 min

Idents:

Columbia – Normal

Text: In order (starts 3:10 in)(3D text, interacts with the clip)

COLUMBIA PICTIRES PRESENTS – Red text, low angle zombie throws man off tower.

IN ASSOCIATION WITH RELATIVITY MEDIA – Red text, Medium shot of zombie.

A PARIAH PRODUCTION – Red Text, Woman running from zombie.

WOODY HARRELSON – Red text, homeless man being eaten.

JESSE EISENBERG – Red text, long shot man running from zombies.

EMMA STONE – Red text, same shot as Jesse Eisenberg.

AND ABIGAIL BRESLIN – Red text, medium shot riot police fighting zombies.

ZOMIELAND – Red text, Italic, medium shot of many breaking glass along with the.

CASTING BY JOHN PAPSIDERA CSA – Red text, Long shot man running from zombie,

COSTUME DESIGNER MAGALIGUIDASCI – Red text, same shot,

MUSIC BY DAVID SARDY – Red text, same shot,

EDITED BY PETER AMUNDSON ALAN BAUMGARTEN, ACE – Red Text, zombie tackling worker,

PRODUCTION DESIGNER MAHER AHMAD – Red text, father and son running from zombies,

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY MICHAEL BONVILLAIN, ACS – Red text, fireman running from zombie,

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS EZRA SWERDLOW PAUL WERNICK RHETT REESE RYAN KAVANAUGH – Red text, same shot as before,

PRODUCED BY GAVIN POLONE – Red text, Man shooting AK-47 at zombies.

WRITTEN BY RHETT REESE & PAUL WERNICK – Red text, same shot as before.

DIRECTED BY RUBEN FLEISCHER – Red text, low angle of zombie hitting window.

Editing:

After the ident it fades to black, then it fades in to the American flag. It slowly zooms out to a POV handheld camera of the congress. This is when you see the first zombie, which establishes the genre. The next transition zooms out so you see the world on fire and it zooms back in. In the opening scene there is only cuts used except at the end where it fades out. In the title sequence there are only fades used which looks smooth along with the slow motion of zombies running.

Mise-en-scene:

Throughout the title sequence you see zombies. The slow motion captious the horror made from the costumes and well done make up. The props used also back up the genre such as the AK-47, and burning car. All the zombies have blood dripping from their mouths and have cuts and bruises.

Sound:

At the start you hear a VO establishing the narrative. The American national anthem is played put sounds rusty. This suggest the end of the world as well as the diegetic on-screen sound of zombies grunting and screaming. When the zombie burbs it emphasises the comedy genre of the movie. The VO also says the name of the movie Zombieland. When the title sequence is playing rock music is playing as people fight zombies in slow motion. There is no diegetic sound as the only thing you hear is the music. At the end a zombie crashes into a car window when this happens you hear the diegetic sound of the glass breaking as well as a church bell.

Conclusion
Having looked at the order of the titles I expected the idents and company names to appear first (which they did) followed up by the names of the actors. I expect the title of the movie to appear least but here it appears in the middle with the caster, musician, costume designer, etc after the title. I think I will follow the same order I think, bar having the movie title appear in the middle

Opening 5 Bridget Jones's Diary

Bridget Jones’s Diary

Information: Imdb  Box Office Mojo

Trailer: 

Rotten Tomatoes:  Rotten Tomatoes
Behind the Scenes

Release Date: 13 April 2001 (USA)

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Ratings: R

Director: Sharon Maguire

Writers:Helen Fielding, Andrew Davies, Richard Curtis 

Stars: Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant

Budget: $25,000,000

Gross: $281,929,795

Production Co: Miramax, Universal Pictures, StudioCanal, Working Title, Little Bird

Synopsis: A British woman is determined to improve herself while she looks for love in a year in which she keeps a personal diary.

Bridget Jones’s Diary is the first Bridget Jones Movie, it came out in 2001 but after its huge success Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason came out in 2004. The movie was just as successful and therefor the 3^rd Bridget Jones film is being made. Bridget Jones’s Baby 

Sound

 The non-diegetic Christmas music starts as the working title screen is up, It continuous on as the voice over starts. Just by listening to the music and hearing what the voice over is saying you can tell the genre. When the mother opens the door a non-diegetic Christmas jingle starts playing, you also hear the first diegetic on screen conversation. As they great the voice over talks about her live, like reading a diary. When she changes clothes the music changes again to a more romantic song, the lyrics are parallel. When she talks to her uncle you can hear in her voice she is uncomfortable. You can hear diegetic off-screen chatter in the background as well as glasses clanging. When the slow motion starts classic romantic music starts playing. The second the slow motion stops the music goes back to normal. When she hears what he says about her the music changes to “All by myself”. The Music starts of as non-diegetic but ends up being diegetic.

Editing

There are mostly only cuts used throughout the hole into. At one point there is a freeze frame that then dissolves to another location and time. There are also some dissolves when she is in her room which indicates the passing of time.

Mise-en-scene

The setting sets the mood straight of with the heavy snow and winter dressed people. This tells the audience straight away that its winter and along with the Christmas sounds. The couples walking in the background gives away the genre which is romance.  The mother is wearing old fashion clothes which is backed up with the old props in the background, and wallpaper, telling the audience she is old fashioned.  You can see on Bridget’s facial expression she doesn’t want to talk to her mother. When she changes clothes you can see by her facial expression and posture she feels uncomfortable. By looking at her she feels uncomfortable around Uncle Geoffrey. When she is around her father she seems much more comfortable as does her father. Her father is holding a bottle of wine as well as smoking; these props indicate that he doesn’t want to be there. The reindeer jumper that he has on is a red flag for Bridget ruining her hopes of liking him. She looks annoyingly at her mother as her mother embarrasses her. When they are alone they both look very uncomfortable, him more than her. When she walks past them after they talk behind her back, you can see she is trying to hold it together as she is very hurt. The snowed over party hat tells the audience that the party is over. When she watches Frasier it tells the audience she is alone and has nothing better to do. As time goes on her ashtray fills up and her wine bottle empties. She is in her Christmas pajamas drinking wine again is a sign of her being alone. She starts dancing and singing for all by myself telling the audience she is drunk, also the fact that she chugs a glass of wine.

Cinematography

The movie starts off with a long to medium shot to establish the time of year, as well as the English taxi tells the audience she is in the UK. There is a tracking shot as she gets out of the car and walks to the house. When the mother opens the door it’s an over the shoulder shot. The next shot is a high canted angle. When the mother is talking to her friend the camera shot is a medium two shot. They use medium to close up shots when they are having a conversation. There is another two shot when her mother looks at what she’s wearing. There is a dolly shot zoom out to show what she is wearing. The camera moves down to a close up of her butt as her “uncle” grabs it. It cuts to a medium close up of her face to see that see feels uncomfortable. There is an over the shoulder as you see her uncle dancing. There is a medium close up of her and her father where the audience sees her facial expression and know she has a good relationship with her father. There is a hand held POV shot as the camera looks at the man. There is a POV dolly shot as the camera in slow motion moves towards the man, then it cuts to a close up of his face. There is another POV as she looks down at his jumper. There is a two medium to close up shot as they uncomfortable talk. There is a freeze frame so the target audience can see her face. There is a wide long shot as she is in the sofa smoking. There is then a POV as she watches Frasier. They us a medium shot as she starts singing so the TA can see her hand movements and tell that she is drunk. The last shot is a wide long shot as she points at the title.

Opening 1 Les Miserables

Les Miserables Opening

Release date: 25 December 2012 (USA)

Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance

Director: Tom Hooper

Writers: William Nicholson, Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schonberg, Victor Hugo (Novel)

Stars: Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anna Hathaway

Budget: $61,000,000

Gross: $441,809,770 

Production Co: Universal Pictures, Relativity Media, Working Title, Cameron Mackintosh

Time	Film info
0 -0:18	Image- Universal Intro Sound- Faint non-diegetic sound of drums
0:19 - 0:25	Image- Camack International Intro Sound- Drums in the background getting louder
0:26 - 0:36	Image- Working Title Into Sound- Drums still low but increasing in volume
0:41	Image- Camera under water, water dirty and filled with debre, flag in the water, scratched and dirty suggesting a battle. Sound- Drums sound like they are being played above the water.
0:44	Image- Text giving a small intro, they year is in a big fonts implying the year may change. Camera slowly racing from the water, getting closer to flag. Sound- Drums are intensifying.
0:56	Image- Establishing shot, camera emerges from the water, raining and dark clouds suggesting vulnerability/sadness. Sound- Non-diegetic music starts playing at full volume.
1:09	Image- Birds eye view, very dark and sad. Humans looks like ants compered to ship. Sound- Diegetic waves hitting the ship and bay while non-diegetic music is playing.
1:19	Image- Birds eye view of slaves working. Camera moving closer to the slaves, waves crashing over slaves. Sound- Music still playing. Diegetic waves.
1:32	Image- Medium Long shot of Jean Valjean. Can see his dirty and ripped clothes as well as his long unclean beard. 100ds of slaves in the background, some with bloody and scared faces. Sound- new music starts playing non-diegetecly. Diegetic waves crash over slaves as well as slaves grunting simultaneously.
1:36	Image- POV of a wave hitting a slave. Sound- The wave hitting
1.44	Image- Medium closes up of Jean as he’s pulling the rope. His eyes are looking up. Sound- Non-Diegetic music, Diegetic waves and grunting.
1:45-1:54	Smart editing technic, when Jean is looking up it re directs the audience to a low angle view of Javert. Image- Low angle long shot, camera slowly moving to a medium close up. The background is dark and it’s raining giving the idea he is the antagonist. He is wearing clean blue clothes telling the audience he is important. He is holding a used wooden baton giving the impression he is strict and violent. Sound- Non-Diegetic loud and intense music as well as men grunting, Diegetic wind.
1:55	Image- Medium shot. High angle showing Jean is less powerful then Javert. Shots open with wave clearing. Sound- Non- Diegetic music, Diegetic singing.
1:56-2:33	Continuity shot of Jean looking at Javert and Javert looking at the slaves, as well as a camera focusing on the singers which varies from different slaves. Sound- The non-diegetic music is playing over the slaves singing.
2:36	Out of focus shot looking at slaves working as they sing on.
2:39	Image- Extreme Long shot of slaves pulling in the ship to the harbor. Sound- waves crashing in as they sing
2:51	Image- over the shoulder of Javert looking down at the slaves. He is seen as the dominant, his posture backs this up.
2:54	Camera is looking down at the slaves feet as there chains scrape the floor and there sloppy dirty feet walk over the French flag which is being disrespected.
2:55	Canted camera looking down at the slaves just like they are singing.  Clear Image of a dirty wet French flag.
3:13	Javert disrespects Jean when he tells him to retrieve a flag without any help. You can see on Javerts facial expression he likes his job.
3:28	The non-diegetic music gets very intense when Jean grunts to lift the flag.
4:48	Continuity shots, over the shoulder as Javert and Jean are having their conversation.