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5/5 Film Openings: Role Models

Role Models Narrative Danny and Wheeler, well into their 30's, lack something: Danny feels stuck; he's sour and due to this has driven away his terrific girlfriend. Whereas Wheeler chases any skirt he sees. They work day-to-day in their boring, endless jobs, which ends up with them getting in a fight with a tow-truck driver. They choose community service over jail and are...

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3/5 Film Openings: The Notebook

The Notebook Narrative The movie first focuses on an old man reading a story to an old woman in an nursing home. The story he reads is on of two young lovers names Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun, who meet one evening at a carnival. They are soon separated by Allie's parents who disapprove of Noah's less fortunate family, and move Allie away....

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2/5 Film Openings: The Babadook & Shes the Man

The Babadook  Initial release: 2014 (Australia) Director: Jennifer Kent Running Time: 1h 35m Screenplay: Jennifer Kent Initial DVD release: April 24, 2015 (USA) Narrative Amelia, who lost her husband in a car crash on the way to give birth to Samuel, their only child. Struggles to cope with her fate as a single mum. Samuel's constant fear of monsters and violent reaction to...

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Exemplar Film Research: Insidious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBCQLGZTBxI Sound At the beginning of the sequence there is a very soft sound of music, which is accompanied with credits. This suspenseful music continues while the camera pans down onto a round shape, onto which the credits continue. The music starts to slowly get louder as the the round object spins to turn into a light hanging from the ceiling. The camera slowly...

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'Cloverfields' Analysis

In a group of 5, we were asked to analyse the movie 'Cloverfields'. Above is the opening clip to which I analysed in detail. I watched the whole film to see if there were any specific changes with the style of filming & to see if any specific techniques were used throughout which were not showed in the first 3 minute opening scene....

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