Opening 9 (my genre) Dead Rising: Watchtower

Information: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3816458/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPuK9GtxLM4

Ratings: 5.2/10 IMDB

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

Behind the scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLUTtagJRgY

Release Date: 27 March 2015 (USA)

Genre: Horror

Rating: N/R

Director: Zach Lipovsky

Writers: Tim Carter

Stars: Jesse Matcalfe, Meghan Ory, Virginia Madsen

Budget: N/A

Gross: N/A

Production Co: Legendary Digital Media, Contradiction Films, Di Bonaventura Pictures, Dead Rising Productions

Synopsis: A group of people fight to survive in a zombie infested town.

Opening length: 6:28

Idents:

CRACKLE – Normal

Legendary Digital – Normal

Contradiction – Normal

Text: In order (all texts like they are behing types on a modern computer)

LEGENDARY DIGITAL PRESENTS – Blue thin font (computer like) Black background, centred.

A DEAD RISING/ CONTRADICTION FILMS PRODUCTION –Blue thin font, black background, centred.

These pop up first then the intro starts. It starts after the zombie outbreak clearly determination the genre. The title popes up at 4:34, The title is white, centered, bold and the letters aren’t in a strait line. In the second D you see a zombie. The background looks like concrete. After Dead Rising popes up beneath it WATCHTOWER popes up, It blinks for a while like a light bulb would. After that "A few Days Earlier" appears.

JESSE METCALFE – Top left, blue, news report in the background.

MEGHAN DRY – Top left, blue, two news footages in the background.

VIRGINIA MADSEN – Top left, blue, News footage of soldiers in background.

ROB RIGGLE – Left centred, people evacuating in background.

KEEGAN CONNOR TRAYCY, ALEKS PAUNOVIC – Top right and bottom right, blue, news reporter in background.

AND DENNIS HEYSBERT – Top right, blue, footage of looters in background.

U.S. CASTING BY JUNNIE LOWRY JOHNSON, LIBBY GOLDSTEIN, MONICA KELLY CANADIAN CASTING TIFFANY MAK, CSA – Blue top left and bottom right.

MUSIC BY OLEKSA LOZOWCHUK – Blue, top right, news reporter in background.

COSTUME DESIGNER BARBARA GREGUSOVA – Blue, top left, image of stadium in background.

EDITOR MIKE JACKSON – Blue, top right, people being interviewed in background.

PRODUCTION DESIGNER TONY DEVENYI – Blue, bottom left, people wanting to leave in the background.

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY TODD WILLIAMS – Bottom right, blue.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: TOM LESINSKI ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS: ZACH LIPOVSKY, GARY HAWES, ANDREW LEVINE, MIKE JACKSON, TODD WILLIAMS – Blue, top left, bottom right.

LINE PRODUCER CHRIS FOSS – Bottom left, blue.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER TOMAS HARLAN – Bottom left, blue.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER LORENZO DI BONAVENTURA – Bottom right, blue.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS HARUHIRD TSUJIMOTO, KIICHIRO URATA – Bottom right, blue.

PRODUCED BY TIM CARTER – Bottom left, blue.

BASED ON THE VIDEOGAME CREATED BY CAPCOM – Bottom right, blue.

WRITTEN BY TIM CARTER –Bottom left, blue.

DIRECTED BY ZACH LIPOVSKY – Bottom right, blue.

Editing:

In the opening sequence there are mostly cuts used. The Text appears and disappears one letter at a time making it look like sci-fi/fantasy like. The cuts are used so the continuity looks good.

Sound:

There is both diegetic on and off-screen zombie noises clearly showing the genre. It starts of with a commercial with a little girl talking, and lullaby music playing, small girls are often used in horror movies, as the commercial is playing you hear zombies. When the title sequence is playing whenever titles pop up you hear a futuristic computer sound. When the news reporter is talking they talk about a zombie outbreak and people being infected.

Evaluation:

Throughout the opening you clearly see what genre it is as zombies are mentioned and seen. They establish that people know about zombies before the outbreak happens and fans of the game will be happy to see it holds the story of the game as well as giving a good description of what is happening so the audiences that haven’t played the game know what it’s about. They also use what looks like a gopro shot when the zombie and the main character is holding the gun.

Opening 8 (my Genre) Dead Snow

Information: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1278340/?ref_=nv_sr_2

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R19KagZyU40

Rotten Tomatoes: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dead_snow/?search=dead%20snow

Rating: 6.4/10 IMDB 67% Rotten Tomatoes

Release Date: 9 January 2009 (Norway)

Genre: Comedy, Horror

Age Rating: Not Rated

Director: Tommy Wirkola

Writers: Tommy Wirkola, Stig Frode Henriksen

Stars: Jeppe Beck Laursen, Charlotte Frogner, Jenny Skavlan

Budget: $800,000

Gross: $1,937,920

Production Co: Euforia Film, Barentsfilm AS, FilmCamp, Miho Film, News on Request (NOR), Yellow Bastard Production

Synopsis: A ski vacation turns horrific for a group of medical students, as they find themselves confronted by an unimaginable menace: Nazi zombies.
Intro Length: 2:50

Idents:

Euforia – Normal

Text:

In this movie there are no actors names in the start of the movie and no title sequence. The titles that pop up are:

YELLOW BASTARD PRODUCTION NEWS ON REQUEST & EUFORIA FILM – white bold text.

PRESENTERER EN MIHO FILM PRODUCTION - The Miho Film is red and bold while the rest is white and bold.

EN TOMMY WIRKOLA FILM – The Tommy Wirkola is bold and red while the rest is bold and white.

That’s the only text that appears. The movie starts of with a camera tilting down to the snowy mountains at night. 2 min and 46 seconds in the main title appears, DEAD SNOW. The color used is red but not full red as some parts are darker red and some lighter this clearly identify the bloody gore genre. The background that the text is on is the full moon in a dark blue sky.

Editing:

The only editing used in the intro is cuts. The pace of the cuts increase as the music gets more intense. The text on screen fades away, instead of cuts away.

Sound:

Throughout the opening sequence the music that is played is Edvard Grieg “In the hall of the mountain king”, this is fitting seeing as Edvard Greig is Norwegian and so is the movie. The music is contrapuntal as you wouldn’t expect to classical music in a sequence with zombies. The music is paused for a while when the woman is looking in to the forest. When the shot reverse shot is used all you hear is diegetic off-screen birds, until the zombie jump scar happens then the music starts playing again.

Evaluation:
The jump scare really builds tension as the camera focuses at something in the dark shadowy forest. It cuts back and forth to the actor and the establishing long shot of the forest. The reason for this is because the target audience expect to see zombies but nothing is happening so it rapidly builds tension and supports the horror genre. The fact that all you see in the opening is shadows running through a snowy forest also supports the genre and keeps the TA engaged. 

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 4 John Wick

John Wick Opening

Information: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2911666/

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AUmvWm5ZDQ

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

Behind the Scenes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hN-IG4Epk8

Release Date: 24 October 2014 (USA)

Genre: Action Thriller

Rating: R

Director: Chad Stahelski, Devid Leitch

Writers: Derek Kolstad

Stars: Keanu Reeves, Willem Defoe, Michael Nyqvist, Alfie Allen

Budget: $20,000,000

Gross: $78,739,897

Production Co: Thunder Road Pictures, 87Eleven, MJW Films, DefyNite Films, Company Films, Heayi Brothers Media, Poquito Productions, Rocket Science VFX, Unbelievable Entertainment

Synopsis: An ex-hitman comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him.

John Wick is the first John wick movie, it more or less came out of the blue as there wasn’t a lot of marketing for it. It is very well made action movie from my point of view. It made a profit of over $50,000,000 and because of its positive feedback John Wick 2 is in production. The only information so far is that Keanu Reaves will be in it (Info from IMDb)

Opening (Length 2:06Min)

Summit Entertainment Intro

Thunder Road Intro

0:34 Summit Entertainment Presents, in big bold letters and grey colour to fit with the action genre. Non-diegetic helicopter sound

0:37 Thunder Road Pictures Present, same font and colour as Summit entertainment.  Non-Diegetic helicopter sound continue. Radio broadcaster starts talking non-Diegetic.

0:42 87Eleven Productions same font. Non- diegetic Helicopter sound getting louder. Radio broadcaster talking about the weather to be specific “Thunder and rain last night”

0:45 Definite films same font. Non- diegetic helicopter sounds like it fly’s by.

0:52 fade in to an establishing wide shot of a used old warehouse. It is dark and poorly lit, in the background you can see a big city lit up. The Non-diegetic radio broadcaster is still talking about the weather. You can hear a faint car sound.

 0:58 the camera slowly zooms in as a car drives in to shot and crashes. As the car drives into shot you can hear the diegetic car engin as well as the raido broudcast still on. As the car crashes you can hear the metal crunsh and the tiers squick. Non-diegetic soft slow music starts to play.

1:04 – 1:14 the camera cuts to a low angle medium shot of a man falling out of the car. There is a diegetic sound of the car door opening. The camera tilts down to the man falling down to his knees. His face has cuts and bruises. He is wearing a black suit which fits with the black SUV. He grunts when he tries to stand up and you can hear his feet shuffle as he tries to stand up. He is holding his stomach and has a bloody hand. His facial expression tells the audience he is in pain. The Non-Diegetic music gets a bit more intense but is still soft.

1:17 there is a cut to a close up of his hand. His whole left hand is bloody but you can make out that he his wearing a wedding ring. His other hand is holding on to his stomach. The bloody hand backs up the genre which is action, thriller. There is diegetic sound of his suit scraping along the concrete as he struggles trying to stand. There is the faint noise of the non-diegetic radio broadcaster. Talking about what a good day its going to be.

 1:20 It cuts to a long shot of the man falling over. The non-diegetic sound of the radio is still playing, you can her the diegetic sound of him grunting and his suit against the concrete.

1:25 there is another close up of both his hands resting against his stomach. Both his hands are bloody along with his suit. The radio broadcast can not be hear any more.

1:27 It cuts to another close up where you see his face. He is breathing heavily and looks as if he is in pain. You can see the cut he has on his nose and side of his face.

1:29 there is another cut to a close up of him taking out his phone.

1:31 it cuts to a medium shot of him looking down at his phone.

1:33 There is a close up of his phone as he presses play on a video. His iPhone screen is bloody from him pressing play. The video is of a peaceful view of the ocean and a woman. The Diegetic sound of the waves are heard. There is a continuity shot back to his face and the phone. You can hear the woman talking in the video and calling the man John. The Audience now know the injured man is John Wick. The video is peaceful but his phone is bloody and he is dying.

1:49 There is a medium shot of John slowly laying down on the ground. He closes his eyes and sighs. The sound is still playing from the video. He drops his phone and releases his breath, making the audience think he is dying, again linking back to the genre.

2:00 There is a cut to an establishing shot where you can see the crashed car and John lying dead on the floor not to far away from the car. The cars emergence lights are flickering as the camera zooms out the non-diegetic music gets more intense until the cut at 2:06.

There are clear signs that connote John Wick being an action genre. The blood anchors the action genre and the video clip signifies that the movie takes place in America, it does this through the accent.