SHOOT 3 influences: American Werewolf in London

 Even though originally we were influenced by the extreme long shot scenery shots from Submarine, I then looked into other examples of extreme long shots of moorland in the opening sequence. I found examples of this in An American Werewolf In London. These shots contain many of the same shot types and framing as Submarine. We decided to base our own shots on these.

Submarine

An American Werewolf In London

The film American Werewolf in London also uses unusual framing, making the land take up nearly 4/5ths of the frame. This is what we would want to do but the opposite way around so the sky takes up the majority of the frame. 

FILM ANALYSIS/INFLUENCES : Submarine- mies-en-scene, locations, sound, music

Analysis of Submarine and how it could influence our film

Mise-en-scene

Submarine has many different aspects that we would use in our film opening. 

For example the  mise-en scene of the boys bedroom is key in this as it portray the boys 

character in the first few shots. 

They use old furniture and intriguing art and objects to connote that this 

protagonist is mature, quirky and acts older than his age.
Influence
As we want our female character to be quirky and an individual we can represent this through the mise-en-scene. Taking inspiration from this film we can add strange retro art and books to help connote that the female protagonist is an individual.

Submarine mise-en-scene

Submarine Title with background

Locations

Within Submarine establishing shots are used to add exposition, it denotes that the film is set along the coast in Wales.
Inspiration
Locations is another big component in our film opening. We will start with a series of long shots of landscapes just as Submarine does. Living near Ilkley Moor is very important as it gives us the idilic location to film all of the establishing shots. We will do this to denote that our film is set in Yorkshire as it will show a lot of fields. 

Sound and Music

Sound and music are also other key factors that Submarine has. It uses slow 

music to set the scene as calm and relaxing. We can tell this by if we used the

 commutation test and replaced it with rock music it would have a huge change

on the audiences interpretation of the female protagonist. The audience would now see her as a rebel and an outcast rather than quirky. The acoustic guitar also denotes that part of the films genre is romance.
Inspiration
We would also use Submarines approach of using acoustic guitar soundtrack to denote the  romantic aspect of our hybrid genre. 

Our working title is Candelabra

Our Working Title is...

Candelabra

We wanted something quirky and abstract like Submarine to show that our film is going to be quite abstract. It also will link with our mise-en-scene as we want a candelabra in the bedroom scene.

FILM OPENING 1 EG - Submarine

SUBMARINE (imdb) 

(Richard Ayoade, 2011)

Produced by Warp Films (+9); UK distribution: Optimum Releasing 

Budget:$1.2m

Box Office: $467,602 (domestic); $397,057 (foreign)

At the moment i'v been looking into the first few minutes of films. It interests me that the first few moments of a movie can either make us press the stop button on our remotes or entice us into exploring what more the film has to offer. This means that the most crucial part of a film may well be the first 2 minutes. Therefore it must be done correctly.

My reaction to the first few moments of the film 'submarine' was this, many different variations of camera lengths and angles were used which added to the scenes visual appeal and made it more interesting. 

 The colour scheme created an arty feel which I personally loved there was minimal dialogue which I thought was effective due to the arty feel of the opening, it made me feel as if I was watching a short  film that should be shown in an art gallery.

Even though it's hard to make clear what genre the film is in the first few minutes of it, (especially rom com) this film portrayed it perfectly by not making it incredibly obvious but enough so that I could say that the film would be a rom com. They did this by adding an arctic monkeys backing song about romance
finally one of the main things that stood out for me, even though it may seam insignificant, was the voice over, not only was it spoken with a dulsit tone which matched the feeling of the room but also that it matched the feeling of the whole 2 minutes, very simple and very effective. Even the camera angles at one point were so simple they almost looked amateur but it just fit even though the piece isn't amateur but very stylised and beautiful. 
Here the camera is panning across the room to give us the audience an idea about the character and their surroundings. This is showing us that this is not the bedroom of a stereo typical boy as it looks like an old mans bedroom.