Thursday 2 October 2014

FILM OPENING 3 EG - Atonement

ATONEMENT (IMDb)
(Joe Wright, 2007)
Produced by Working Title (+2); distribution: Universal
Budget:$30m
Box Office: $130m (world); $51m (USA), £11.5m

Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit. Based on the British romance novel by Ian McEwan.
  Universal Pictures ident denotes the distributor
The font is serif which could connote a setting in the past, it could also signify a serious drama as the font and background are black and white. 
This denotes that they are the main
production company.
This denotes the co-producers.

The first shot is a close up of a doll house but it also looks like it could be an establishing shot of an actual house.


Then we see a panning and tracking shot which starts to reveal the set. The exotic animals have conotations of foreign travels so this leads us to believe that the owners are wealthy.



We can now see the back of a little girls head is creates a narrative enigma which creates suspense and interest. The neatly ordered shoes and religious pictures connote that this girl is very sensible. 

Now more detail is showing connotations of children and wealth.




 Then we see a close up panning tracking shot of the girls face, followed by an extreme close up of her eyes  to show her lack of emotion.
This point of view shot connotes this little girl to be the main central protagonist.




1 comment:

  1. Good work generally - lots of media terminology, tho' try to colour highlight this! - but some points to develop:
    always look out for small text; its the default for captions which is usually ok, but not if the main text is actually the captions!
    the pan/track isn't a master shot: that occurs when you've had some parts of a location in shots THEN get a (master) shot revealing the full location
    the ECU isn't used in quite the way we expect - can you say why?
    the opening shot is always a key one to analyse
    copy/paste the top of my post so you have a better-formatted heading/sub-headings and can use this as a template for other posts analysing film openings (copy/paste it again, and just change words/links each time! no need then to spend time changing size/font/colour!!!)

    I highly recommend adding tags too - ask if unsure about this or anything else

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