Expect to see multiple film idents - film industry is risky so co-production spreads risks - see distributor ident as well as production company idents
Low budget end - often see TV channel idents (BBC etc.) - also possibly see UK film council (now called BFI - British Film Institute)
Working Title - subsidiary of vertically integrated Big 5 conglomerate NBC Universal - not as important (junior company) as conglomerate so last in series to appear and audio bridge to movie or not used at all
Working Title - first look deal - therefore distributed by Columbia, Sony so no WT or NBC Universal ident is shown
FILM OPENING
Narrative enigma - don't know where it is set however can see faces
Very shallow field of focus
Big close up
Very thick and wide sideburns - working class - possibly connoting comedy genre
Slightly long and unkempt hair
Gold chain
Man more in frame than woman signifies him as protagonist (he's also on top)
2 shot
Red filter connoting set in past or porn
Further exposition through mise-en-scene
England football team large tattoo on back - big fan - association with working class
Football jersey in shot
Can of lager - working class anchorage
Comedic genre pushed at start
Assumed bedroom - narrative enigma - actually in store
Sales - cheap beds
Rule of thirds
Girl covered - anchors man as protagonist
Single mums wearing shell-suits and smoking - stereotype of working class with father leaving
Contrasting with This is England
Graffiti and boarded up buildings
Didn't get much box office - too distinctively English for an American audience - had to change name from Grimsby to The Brothers Grimsby
Tristar is a Sony subsidiary so it makes sense to put Sony before
SONY
Black screen until the O in Sony begins to appear
Roughly 6 seconds in, a high pitched note plays at the same time a ray of light makes the other letters visible
All letters turn white, then a fade of light blue to white to dark blue
Zoom into the letter O and rumbling noise and bells play
High pitched noise still plays
TRISTAR
Dark shapes which look like trees until another ray of light shows and the set becomes light and shows white fluffy clouds
White pegasus runs from extreme long shot until a long shot
Swoosh sound as pegasus opens its wings
'Tristar' appears above and behind the pegasus in a gold, bubble, sans-serif font and 'a Sony company' appears in a smaller gold, bubble, sans-serif font below
Pegasus goes into slow motion as titles appear
Swoosh again as it fades to black
High pitched noise continues throughout
MRC
Blue box appears from left to right
Letters and box fades into view and focuses
Fade to black after
High pitched noise still playing
WORKING TITLE
Circular orange light appears
White chalk or pencil drawing a circle in this orange spot
Drawing turns into blue rings
Blue rings spin around and the working title font in white appears
Swoosh sfx when blue rings start spinning
Ringing sound continues throughout
Fade to black
Ringing audio bridges into first scene
Titles
Titles start at 6:23
End of song Bell Bottoms playing as titles appear - song fades out
Tristar Pictures and MRC present
Sans serif stencil font in white, all upper case but 'and' and 'present' in a smaller font than 'tristar pictures' and 'mrc'
Thin yellow strip underneath 'Tristar Pictures and MRC' and above 'present'
Appears the same time a tyre screech sound effect
Line comes from the right of the screen and the words come out from the line
Font gets bigger until it fades out
Again another yellow line comes in from the left of the screen
'A working title' on the top, 'big talk pictures production' underneath
Same font
'working title' and 'big talk pictures' in a bigger font than 'a' and 'production'
Font gets bigger until it fades out
Again another yellow line comes in from the right of the screen but goes into the middle of the screen
