Friday, 6 September 2013

Analyising opening sequence




Analysing Opening Sequence

This is the opening sequence to Hangover. Hangover is under the film genre 'Comedy'.
    At the opening there is two settings. The woman (Sasha Barrese playing 'Tracey') who is on the phone is in America, indoors at her home where wedding dresses are spread around the room.
  
In comparison the man (Bradley Cooper playing 'Phil') is in a desert in the middle of the day, I think that its set in the middle of the day showing him lost in the middle of nowhere suggesting something bad happened the night before.

The theme of Hangover is a kind of quest where they are looking to find their friend, retracing their steps with the comedy element linked into it.
 There are lots of main icons that pop up, one that links into both the man and woman is a phone. Also the Bradley cooper is leaning on a car,wearing sunglasses so both objects stand out.

At the start the story is told to through the two main characters you see, as they are on the phone they are discussing the whereabouts of each other. This gives the sence that they are completly oblivious as to what has gone on the night before, linking into the setting being in the day.

Phil comes across like a middle to higher classed man even though he is lost in a desert. He is 34 years of age and is a male. I predict that he is a cristian and he is a hetrosexual.
 Tracey also comes across like a middle to higher classed woman as she is in a wedding room with an aray of dresses. She is also 34 years of age and is a female. She is hetrosexual also.

There is no fancy camera angles at the start of the opening sequence. Although the camera starts off outside the house and then going in the house and into the room where tracy is. It gives off the effect that you are walking into the house with them. When you see Phill in the desert you can see the effect of wind blowing objects in the background like a typical barrun desert. With the begining credits there is quiet background music.

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