Title: The Godfather
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Designer: Steven Speilberg
(Analysis)Camera – distance, angle, movement…
Camera panning around the location of a dark but enlightened room. Variety of different angles. movement of camera showing the whole screen of image.
Effect/Analysis ^
Gives the audience a sense of location, and awareness of what sort of thriller this may be. Shows unsteadyness of the camera influencing the audience to think of action thriller.
Editing – speed, style…
Through the opening it seems slow and toned down, the music has a different style, compared to some of the other films, and the speed of images being shown and titles being names, is dragged out, maybe signfying slow painful deaths, linking to the mise-en-scene of images shown in the opening.
Effect/Analysis ^
The idea of a slow painful death could be a way in which you could describe the rest of the film. Death is a mian cause in this film title.
Sound – effects
Sound effects are to a minimum. The director is mainly focused on textual images to grab the audience attention.
Effect/Analysis ^
To make a thriller effective, you dont need to use sound always, images are a good way of showing meanings and purposes, although the music in the background helps towards it to make the audience understand what sort of film they are watching.
Mise-en-scene – props, costume, setting, lighting, colour…
Images of people, personal objects, a distorted image of writing takes a good 3 seconds to come to still.
Effect/Analysis ^
Lots of images; people making a gun shape with their hands towards their heads, families and just general normal people come to mind. Black and white ink signyfiying discolour - death. Many objects and images in this film opening make it clear to the audience what sort of film they are going to be watching Special Effects – Effect/Analysis ^
Special Effects –
Theres minimul special effects as the director and designer have focused on a bigger approach of focusing on just images to represent the way in which the film is put across.
Effect/Analysis ^
From getting these sort of thoughts from an opening like this iconic. As it helps me as the audience to gain a different purpose of the film. It shows me that not all films can be shown by actors and music, you can use images to represent contrast and imagery in the mind.
Titles – font, colour, placement, over black / over clip…
font of the titles is plain black over a white background which is fuzzy then becomes still after 3 seconds...this sort of imagery is distorted and shaky (could be included under special effects)
Effect/Analysis ^
gives us a sort of clue. Makes us think what is possible in the film. Does the film show technology alot? Or is it a old fashioned based sort of thriller, using the same sort of story line. This comes to mind as old objects are used and shown. Polaroid pictures are shown...etc
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