Question 1: 9 Frame Analysis of 'Another Day'

The title of the film:

The title of our film is 'Another Day,' the title is introduced at the end of the film. This is done because we wanted to foreshadow the meaning of the film which is the day after an evert (what event? watch the film..) and to also draw the audience in.

Setting/Location:

In our film we use a range of shots from a variety of locations to give the viewer a sense of morning. These shots are juxtaposed with the house scene where the viewer gets a sense of the 'morning after the night before'. We used the lively morning shots of buses, trains, markets and people commuting to work to show that people are starting 'Another' new day and are busy where as the main characters are still in darkness and living the night before (party). This setting reflects our genre of teen rom-com as it is slow paced (editing/shots) rather than fast paced action.

Costumes and Props:

Costumes and props are mainly used in the house scene of our film. This is the scene where out main characters are introduced and the audience establishes their first impressions of the characters so the customes must reflect the stereotype we intend to put across. We achieved this by showing Ned Flame (main character) in glasses and also wearing braces to conform to the stereotype of a nerd where as we have Rick Flame in a T-Shirt and jeans, looking casual and giving a cool personer to the viewer. We used props such as Cups, Alcohol bottles and a passed out girl on the floor to show the viewer a party has taken place and our characters are in the after-math.

Camerawork/Editing:

Our camerawork consists of slow panning and medium to long range shots which is conventional to our genre. This allows the viewer to see clearly what is happening in the scene and sets the pace of the film. We also used this in our editing, although transition methods were limited we mainly stuck to cross dissolves and blurs to make a natural transition effect to the edit so the audience feels at ease and comfortable immidently.

 Title font and style:

We used a title font called 'American Typewritter' which we downloaded from a website. We used this to give an American type theme to the title's which we can see in our story/script. By using this font style the audience may feel that this film has simularities to other films they have seen with this genre which may settle the audience and reassure the expectation the viewers have of our film.

Story and how the opening sets it up: 

Our film is the story of two brothers who are the complete opposites (one a ladies man and the other a geek). This subverts the initial idea seen in most films of a simular nature, most films have these two characters unrelated and hardly interact where as in our film these two characters must invetiable interact as they have an inseperbal bond. In our opening we see the different worlds of the two brothers. The ladies man (Rick) doing what he does best compared to the geek (Ned) working in the early hours of the morning.

Genre & how the opening suggests it:

Our genre is Teen rom-com. This genre tend to have a young cast (16-24) which makes it apeal to our target market (16-24). We use these aspects in our film which is seen in the opening of our film witht the main characters and extra's, as they are all young it suggest that the rest of the film will consist of young characters which is convetional of the genre.

How characters are introduced:

Most of the characters are introduced in different ways, the first character we're introduced to is the girl who we see walking down the stairs. As she is walking down we're also introduced to one of our main characters 'Rick Flames' who she kisses as she makes her way down suggets that these two character have just come from the bedroom showing the nature of Rick. The second main character 'Ned Flames' is introduced using a panning shot of him watching t.v rather than the implided sounds the audience initially hear, by doing this the audience then get an understanding of his character and the type of person he is.

Special effects:
Using special effects to help us transition to different moments smoothly, but doing so we did discover some problems, some of the transitions didn't work very well with some of the clips that we had. So we use very natural tranistions to give a calm and soft effect to the viewer. The main tranistion  we used was cross dissolved to give the natural feel experienced in the morning.