The Last Seduction
I recently watched the film of which in the genre of noir 'the last seduction' which really gave me inspiration and idea's towards our final outcome.
I recently watched the film of which in the genre of noir 'the last seduction' which really gave me inspiration and idea's towards our final outcome.
Firstly i watched the trailer to it to get a feel of what i am about to be watching, which set the scene towards the film itself by doing a wide pan across the location of where they are and where the film is based this is so the audience realise where the film is and also what sort of location it is. In this case they pan across new york (United States of America) and so we know that its an american film. We firstly get introduced to the director and secondly the main female actress, the font is in a type of style which we know has a noir theme to it with the white and then the black shadow to it; we know this as it comes across as a bold defined title towards the film and genre noir.
We also understand what happens as there is a narrator talking over the top of the actions introducing the story line to make the audience interested and want to watch the whole film. This is done to present the film for marketing as well as letting us know what genre it is in. As it is a trailer it is selling the film rather than introducing it.
The actual title sequence starts off with introducing the main actors and actresses by black background and just simply fading in and out of bold white font, creating a affective opening of just simply knowing who the actors and producers are.
We firstly get shown a crane shot of where the film is set, in this case we are looking over a large popular city in America so that the film sets the scene of the story line.
It then goes into the main character of a stereotype business women, showing us as the way she is talking represents the strict dominant character she is.
The music is quite jumpy which emphasises the fact that the first scene is introducing what's going on and how they want the audience to react whilst watching it.
There is a low angle under a bridge with a man who seems too look important being looked up too introducing him to the audience as a dominant character.
The mise-en-scene of the briefcase is showing us that he is important because people that are in the business are likely to have briefcases. In this case he is greeted by two men who are shown to be quite rough and harsh looking giving us the impression that they are in to no good.
Brick
Brick was produced in 2005 this is saying that it is more of a modern film and so we are expected to see more emergent ideas.
The opening scene grabs the audiences attention quickly as it introduces the characters and begins to tell the story line, it is clear to what he has just done because the close up shots of his eyes tells us the story with visual effects, he is also looking at her which tells us too.
There are shots of feet which is extremely effective because you can tell how their stood and also what they are like because of what they are wearing. In this case you can see the women's legs which may seem intense towards the male.
You can see that the target audience of this is similar target audience as ours (17-27) as the characters itself are of this age.
The scene here is introduced as dark and glumly which is related to the theme of murder which is classed in the genre of noir.
The actual title sequence starts off with introducing the main actors and actresses by black background and just simply fading in and out of bold white font, creating a affective opening of just simply knowing who the actors and producers are.
We firstly get shown a crane shot of where the film is set, in this case we are looking over a large popular city in America so that the film sets the scene of the story line.
It then goes into the main character of a stereotype business women, showing us as the way she is talking represents the strict dominant character she is.
The music is quite jumpy which emphasises the fact that the first scene is introducing what's going on and how they want the audience to react whilst watching it.
There is a low angle under a bridge with a man who seems too look important being looked up too introducing him to the audience as a dominant character.
The mise-en-scene of the briefcase is showing us that he is important because people that are in the business are likely to have briefcases. In this case he is greeted by two men who are shown to be quite rough and harsh looking giving us the impression that they are in to no good.
Brick
The opening scene grabs the audiences attention quickly as it introduces the characters and begins to tell the story line, it is clear to what he has just done because the close up shots of his eyes tells us the story with visual effects, he is also looking at her which tells us too.
There are shots of feet which is extremely effective because you can tell how their stood and also what they are like because of what they are wearing. In this case you can see the women's legs which may seem intense towards the male.
You can see that the target audience of this is similar target audience as ours (17-27) as the characters itself are of this age.
The scene here is introduced as dark and glumly which is related to the theme of murder which is classed in the genre of noir.
I wouldn't worry about analysing the trailer, concentrate upon the opening itself. Are the titles generic? What expectations do they set up? How is that opening shot generic? Is the female character generic? Is what she's doing and where she is generic? What about the male character and what he's doing? With Brick you need to identify how the film fits into the neo-noir genre. What elements do you recognise? How do you respond to the opening sequence? How much of your response is down to your generic expectations. The use of enigma codes might be particularly important here.
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