Film Analysis Openings genre

In this task we had to pick 3 film openings and analysis them.

Tho do this we use the acronym DISTINCT.
This stands for:
Describe
In detail
Setting
Themes
Icons
Narrative
Character
Textual analysis


Clueless film opening




The opening to clueless is very bold and colourful with its choice in font and background as they are both very bight colours that there fashionable in the 90s when this film was set. It also makes you think that the film will be happy and upbeat. The setting is a upper class American suburb in the morning as the father is rushing to get to work and the daughter is making breakfast. The house has high tech equipment in it which shows the wealth of the family. The main character is being a narrator about how normal her life is which is ironic as it far from that. The main character Cher is white and her best friend Dion is black however they are both upper class. The music at the beginning is upbeat an popular for the time it was set and would appal to teenage audiences. The genre of this film is a teenage girl comedy you can tell this because of the light hearted music. Another way of showing this genre is the by the way the lighting is very light and showing everything in the shot which tells the audience that they is nothing else to this film but what you can see.

Harry Brown opening scene


The opening scene to Harry Brown is very dark and shows gangs, drugs and killing. it is set in a run down council estate where gangs seem to run everyday life. The men shown all seem to be lower class. They also are teenagers and young adults that are part of  The sound used is all very dark and mysterious and makes your heart race. The opening makes the whole plot seem very dark and upsetting. The opening setting was a group of men pressuring one person into taking some kind of drug so he join the gang. It then goes to a very normal scene where a young mother is waking her baby in a pram in the park where she is then shot at by these gang members. You cna tell this film is a dark volient film.You can tell this by the conversations going on and the fact that because the lighting is so dark you can not see everything that is going on in the shot which creates mystery and curious.


Guardians of the Galaxy opening scene

 The opening of the Guardians of the Galaxy is a dark and dirty then the is a person playing a cassette which is an upbeat and cheerful song as he dance and mouths the words to this song which makes him seem completely comfortable in his setting as he while danced he was able to stop any rat like creature and even used one as a microphone. He is the only character we are introduced to. Also he did not speak and their was no narration in this scene which means we still do not know anything about the plot.  The use of  his cassette playing makes it seem like this is something from his childhood as there are not use in the modern world. This film genre is sifi you can tell this but the setting that is shown to us is like nothing on this earth as we know it. Also the way the character is flash backing to his childhood on earth shows that something has happened to earth which means it is no longer how we know it.