Two Can Play That Game opening sequence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xvbuGej-n8
I have analysed the first 2minutes and 4 seconds of this film as i will be filming an opening sequence for 2 minutes in my main task.
Two can play that game falls into the genre of comedy. I chose this because it has a range of camera shot, editing, sound and mise en scene in the opening seqence.
At the beginning of the film, the audience hears a non- diegetic sound of urban, jazz, upbeat music and then a birds eye view of a busy city is shown with very tall work builings. The audience then relates the upbeat music to the life of the city which is in America. The jazz music also indicates that the film will be about grown maybe sophisticated people as jazz music attracts mostly an older generation.
To show the different buildings, fading editing has been used instead of cuts and high key lighting is being used as it is during daytime. As the audience sees this, they also start to hear a fade in of diegetic sound of a woman having a conversation about someones partner then there is a cut showing a wide shot of her sitting in an office. The woman is sitting in an office chair on the phone and she is the only person in the office which tells the audience that the office belongs to her and she is of a high status in the workplace.
As the woman comes off the phone there is a tracking shot which moves in towards the woman and then a mid shot is shown of her talking to the audience. There is also a diegetic sound of her wobbling the papers tomake them tidy as she talks to the audience. A close up shot of the phone is shown as it is ringing which tells the audience that she is a busy business lady. As the woman walks around in her office and talks to the audience there are cuts which show her movement fro one part of the office to another. Towards the end of the scene a long shot is shown of the woman walking across to the mirror, the shot shows the costume, she is smartly dressed wearing a green suite which shows that even though she is proffesional, she is still stylish, Her gold jewellery suggests that she is earning good money as it looks expensive. She is also wearing a black top inside her suite which shows abit of clevage to express her femininity and this is emphasised with an over the shoulder shot showing her standing infront of a mirror which represents her to the audience that she is an attractive independant woman earning money.
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