Thursday, 21 November 2019

X FILM OPENING EG3 About a Boy

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  • Fade up
  • Audio bridge to first scene
  • Diegetic sound from tv 
  • Bird's eye view
  • Tracking shot
  • Protagonist - proppian archetypes
  • Rule of thirds
  • Narrative enigma - not showing protagonist's face
  • Intertextuality with tv show
  • Camera movement and zooming connoting tension
  • Anchored with tense music from tv show
  • Show foreshadowing events - most likely to be Jon Bon Jovi character connotes comedic genre 
  • Voice over - inner monologue
  • Non-diegetic sound - guitar strings
  • Red Bull signifies youth, not sophisticated
  • Tea cup with saucer - sophistication
  • Cigarettes - negative connotations - complex preferred reading
  • Campbell's hero's journey/monomyth - all narratives center on journey and progression of protagonist
  • Big book - intelligence, sophistication
  • Lower case bubble font block white - connoting comedic genre
  • Navy blue slacks, gry blue crew neck jumper, blue shirt, grey blue monochromatic mise-en-scene - conservative guy
  • Large collection of books and LPs, electric guitar, speakers - rebellious

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