Analysis of 'The Godfather'

This is the opening scene to the film 'The Godfather'. With this opening scene the main thing is a man talking to somebody or a group of people. He gives a detailed monolgue of a girl being in an accident with her boyfriend, whom ended up in hospital with a broken nose and shattered jaw. The camera is focused on this man constantly throughout the opening scene all we see is a dark black blackground with a sillouette of the man, we see his face clearly and the white collar of his shirt. Another distinctive look in him is his gold tooth, which stands out the most. The man has a strong itailian accent which can be pretty hard to understand. The colouring is another important factor of the scene, it shows that there is some recency to when this scene was shot.
Before the man comes onto the screen and the opening credits are shown, there is non-diegetic music played before the man starts talking, the other things that we can hear is the tine change in his voice, through him talking about what he is, the subject touches him as you can hear his voice start to break.
With the editing of the opening scene it is a continuous cut on the man, but throughout the scene nearer to the end the 180 degree rule is used as from the shot being a close up of the man, it then zooms out and the appearance of a shoulder comes to view, we know this is a 180 degree rule as this technique is mostly used for when two indivuals are having a conversation.

Analysis of 'Touch Of Evil' Opening Sequence

I watched the opening scene of  'Touch Of Evil'. The Mise En Scene of the opening shot is that it is set in black and white, with it being this colour it gives the film a time setting, which we all know was in olden times. The first thing we see is a close up shot of a bomb that an unfaced man is holding, here it is where the audience know and expect something to happen but the actors do not know. Then there is a moving shot which focuses on a couple linking arms walking through a sidewalk and the man who is holding the bomb is running away and hiding from anybody else. Even though the setting is in black and white we can tell that this scene is at night time, there then is a scene of a man standing in the road acting like a traffic light which we notice that there is none. Which is also another reason how we know its an old movie. There is non-diegetic music as the scenes are played, there is a couple that is focused on throughout the opening scene, firstly when the man with the bomb was at the beginning and we saw the couple linking arms, till the end where we see them talking to the customs officer, then all of a sudden the expected bomb blows. We hear the bomb before we see it. The costume of the actors were what we would expect to see in the olden times as women were in formal dresses and neat bleach blonde hair which represents also that it may have been set the time when Marilyn Monroe, the men were in full piece suits and the workers were in strict identical uniforms.
            Most of the editing of the opening scene is that it is a continuous cut throughout the scene, it makes it look like the camera is walking and following everything thats going on. It is continuous but the camera shows us different points of view, such as when the car is coming out of the car park nearer to the beginning it gives us a birds eye view so that we know the car that would be coming out is the same car we saw before.
With the sound of the opening scene, the most that we hear is the non-diegetic music which is playing most time throughout the scene. There is not much dialogue as the whole opening scene is mostly non-diegetic music and noises of cars, the only dialogue that we hear is when the traffic light men were shouting to cars and when the customs officers were talking to the American citizens, we also hear the sound of the bomb which everybody knew was going to happen some time or another throughout the scene.

Tuesday Media Lesson. Hollyoaks-.Audience Profile.

The audience of the Tv programme Hollyoaks will most likely be aged between 16-24, it would be this age as the programme is based on college and uni students. The gender of the audience would be both males and females and there isnt a certain genre to the programme, also it tells us that the programme isnt specified to just one gender as the opening title to the programme has the male and female symbols. The likely location of the audience would either be a village like where Hollyoaks is filmed or a city where uni's and college's are.
Most likes of the audience would be that they like to go shopping, out for meals, drinking and partying, also that they are mostly dedicated to thier education and family. In Hollyoaks there is also a lot of drama that some individuals can relate to, such as eating disorders, cancer, pregnancies and teen dramas. There would also be dislikes that the audience would have which could be anything, there could be a variety of different things that different people dont like. The programme doesnt give people specific ideas of what to dislike.
The title of the programme is called 'Hollyoaks', I think the name is a good name as even though it doesnt mean anything, it does fit in with the genre of the programme as the name does have a village element to it, also with the name, the directors made the programme name fit in with the name of the school and college which then makes the audience realise that the village is named Hollyoaks.

Analysis of 'Step Up Revolution'

I watched the opening sequence to 'Step up Revolution'

Mise en scene.Most of the actors whom the camera was on were dancers who stopped traffic to show the world them dance. The scene is bright and so is the clothing that all actors are wearing, it makes the scene exciting and happy. In the scene a lot of cars are involved seeing as it staged in the middle of the road. At the beginning there was two males sitting in a car as if they were planning to dance. They all of a sudden stopped the traffic to dance. With the opening sequence they made it seem as if the dancers were doing all of this to prove a point as when the camera went onto the audience watching, a father covered one of his childs eyes as if he didnt want the child to see. With the opening sequence it shows that the movie will be dance themed and with everything that happened in the 3 minutes it makes a statement which is that they should have the freedom to dance.

Editing.With the editing of the scene, there is a continuous cut throughout the scene, it doesnt change time or place just shows the whole dance routine. The scenes fade in and out to show all the different things that are happening at the same time, for example at first it would be the dancers, then it would fade in to a scene of the cars and dancers and then it faded out and back in to the audience to show how they were reacting to the dancers.

Sound.
In the opening sequence, the sounds that were heard was music playing throughout the scene, due to it being a dance routine scene. At the beginning you could hear two males talking and the sound of a car horn as if they were blocking traffic. There was also the dramatic sound of the screeching of a car as it was spun round to block all cars, the dancers were also banging on the cars as they were jumping on the cars and banging on the sides of the cars as they were dancing, this sound was made louder than the music for a brief moment to emphasize the strength of the dance. Another sound that was heard was the cheering of the crowd whom was on the sidewalk watching all the dancers. With all the sounds in the scene it made the sounds upbeat and in a rhythm.

Camera.
The camera zooms in to the cars and the speakers at the beginning to show what will be involved in the scene. Then there was wide shots of the video so we could see everything that was happening (eg the cars moving and the dancers). Throughout the scene the camera did a lot of moving shots, firstly near the beginning it seemed as if the camera was walking fast paced backwards from the first car with the two males as while this is happening we see all the dancers coming out of the cars. Another moving shot is when all the dancers were dancing in front of the camera, the camera seemed like it walked towards the dancers and zoomed in to the actions that they were doing. The camera also uses angles, a low angle is used and it looks up to the dancers dancing, and then there is a high angle used which makes there seem that there is a birds eye view of the dancers dancing.

The target audience for this film would be for individuals who see dance as a passion or young people aged around 11 to 16.

The narrative of the film is shown to the audience through dance, it tells a story through people dancing and music, most dance films have a moral or a message that they want to tell, others have a story that made them dance and others are where two people come together through dance.

Analysis of 'Children Of Men'

I watched the opening sequence to the film 'children of men'.

Mise en scene.
The colour of the scene was a blue/grey colour which gave it a dull look. Almost as if it wasn't in the year of 2027, and that the world was full of a lot of pollution. The youngest person in the world was 18 who died, so the world was all middle aged to elderly people, when the actors were watching the news in the coffee shop it shows that they have a look of worry and sadness on their faces about the death of baby Diego. The man who last bought a coffee from the cafe and walked out as the camera zoomed to the television, it is obvious from the opening sequence that he is the main character.

Sound.
With the sound, at the beginning of the opening sequence there was a blank screen with a voice over of a news report. With doing this, the voice was the only thing that was the main concentration, informing us that there was a seige in Seattle and that the youngest person in the world whom was aged 18 had died. There was also diegetic music in the scene from the television which gave an atmosphere to incident that had happened, as while music was being played, a woman could be heard crying.
Another sound in the opening sequence was the loud sound of the explosion, after this happened it went silent as an aftermath of what had just happened. A few seconds after though we hear a loud high pitch scream from a woman coming out of the smoke from the explosion. I thought the sound that was used and how it was used was very effective as it made an atmosphere when there needed to be one.

Editing.
With the editing of the opening sequence, there is a cut from the blank screen with the voice over to the scene of actors standing in the cafe, from there its a continuous cut to the television where we see the picture of baby Diego. The last cut was a jump cut from the woman screaming to the title of the film.  Most of the cuts were continuous throughout the opening sequence. This also worked well with what was being created.

Camera.
The camera had a couple of angles in the opening sequence, at first the camera was held from a high point of view (as if it was the television) with all the actors looking up at the camera as if they were watching it. Another angle of the camera was after the explosion happened in the cafe, there was a moving shot of the camera walking towards the woman screaming. This too made the opening sequence work very well.