Opening Sequence: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Camera Shot/Angle/Movement:

• P.O.V. camera shot. Crowd moves and parts as camera gets closer to Bacon, like someone moving around a crowd to see the attraction,


• Close up and mid-shot of Bacon whilst he sells his items. Close up to emphasize business like tone however also shows relaxed persona. Mid-shot of Bacon and buyers to show interest in cheap price of products.


• Close up of Ed, pretending to be a buyer, to show his shock and interest in cheapness of products. However the audience don't know he is just pretending so they think that Bacon is telling the truth.


• Mid-Shot of buyers buying the products. Shows Bacon to be a good liar.


• Close Up of Ed. Shows him to be looking out for something or someone. Audience wonder who or what he is looking out for.


• Close Up of Ed and Bacon when 'coppers' come to show panic and flustered actions as he shoves things into his suitcase.


• Mid-Shot as Ed and Bacon run away from the police. we see a dingy street, walled up street, old looking pub, gray street.


• Mid-Shot as Bacon and Ed run down stairs. Makes Bacon throwing his suitcase in the air more effective as we see how many items are falling out and how much of it he has lost.

Sound:

• All we hear is dialogue until one minute three seconds in when we faintly start to hear a guitar riff (non-diagetic),


• Non-Diagetic music blasts out when the police arrive on the scene. Similar to the rush of the chase,


• Narrator describing Ed and Bacon.

Editing:

• Cuts from Bacon talking to credits,


• Slow motion Movement whilst Ed and Bacon run down the stairs. Gives Narrator enough time to describe one before the other comes in.

Mis En Scene:

• Bacon's goods,


• Grey, dingy London,


• Supposed cold weather shown by the wearing of coats,


• Police costumes. Shows that whatever Bacon and Ed are doing it is illegal,


• Closed off shops, shows it to be a run down part of London.

Characters:

• Bacon and Ed are shown by the Narrator to take part in illegal activities.


• Ed is said to be a good gambler.

Narrative/Plot:

• No real sense of narrative or plot. Because Ed and Bacon are crooks maybe money is involved.

Themes:

• Crime

Visual Style:
No real sense of visual style

Genre:
Thriller

Opening Sequence: Hannibal

Camera Shot/Angle/Movement:

• Opens with black screen and red credits however we hear dialogue between two men,
  
• See image of one of the speakers. Image slowly gets bigger and bigger until we see both speakers: Mr. Virger and Barney.
  
• Mid-shot of Mr. Virger and Barney. Emphasizes the grandeur of the room and the obvious wealth belonging to the Mr. Virger because of his attire although he is in a wheelchair, the fact that he has Cornell, a P.A., standing behind him and also he is the one interviewing Barney,
  
• Close up of Mr. Virger's face. Emphasizes grotesqueness of face,


• Close up of Barney's face to show his displeasure of the questions and answers he was being given and giving,


• Shot/reverse shot to keep the conversation in flow,


• Mid shot of Mr. Virger and his Cornell to emphasize his obvious disability and his need for Cornell,


• Zoom in on Mr. Virger as he is shown whatever it is that is inside the box. His reaction to whatever is inside and the fact that we aren't allowed to see what is inside shows obvious importance,
  
• Slow zoom/close up of Barney's face when stating price of contents. Shows business like attitude and maybe greed.


• Close up of Mr. Virger's face to show greed for the contents of the box,


• Slow zoom/close up of mask in the box. Obvious importance and recognition by the audience as the mask Hannibal wore in 'Silence of The Lambs.

Sound:

• Non-diagetic sound of slow, mournful piano music. Doesn't last long before dialogue enters,


• Piano music continues as dialogue continues,


• Loud sound, similar to a gust of wind, when open box is presented to Mr. Virger. Ominous, maybe showing the start of a horrible chain of events,


• Music grows in voume as mask is zoomed in.

Editing:

• Screen is blaack for a very short amount of time with red credits,


• Small image starts to grow in size from toip right hand corner of the screen until we see the first speaker. As the camera pans slowly across the room the image continues to grow until we see both speakers.

Mis En Scene:

• Large grand room showing wealth.


• expensive looking items like large collection of books, statues, candelabras.


• Mr. Virger is looking very neat and tidy, adding to the look of wealth. Barney in a normal attire showing average wealth, normal citizen,


• Mr. Virger is made up to look scarred, largely disfigured face, in a wheel-chair,


• Pink box next to Barney. Makes audience question what is inside the box.


• Hannibal mask. Obvious recognition from the audience from 'Silence of The Lambs'.

Characters:

• Mr. Virger is an ominous looking man. Greatly disfigured, has a deep interest in Lecter and his belongings (greedy attitude toward the mask obvious proof!). Makes audience wonder what happened to him and why he is interested in Lecter.


• Barney is an average looking man. Recognizable from the first film by helping Clarice Starling. Brings to question why he is helping this ominous character and why is he shwoing this new greed with money.

Narrative/Plot:

• No obvious clues of narrative/plot. All we know is Mr. Virger has a deep interest in Lecter.

Themes:

• Hannibal Lecter,
  
• Revenge

Visual Style:

• On looker or witness

Genre:

• Thriller

Opening Sequence: Children of Men

Camera Shot/Angle/Movement:

• Mid-shot of crowded coffee shop. Shows the importance of the news bieng played on the television that everyone is squeezing into this one shop.


• News report on the t.v. in the backround. Shows audience what the coffee shop goers are watching and what is so important.


• Camera follows Clive Owen’s character out of the shop. Shows the audience who the main focus of the scene. Quickly pans across the futuristic London street, Showing pictures on the windows of the buildings.


• Camera doesnt cut at all. Follows and goes around clive Owen to the angle of the explosion. Shows Clive Owen scared when bomb goes off. Makes the Audience question as to why the hero of the film would be scared.

Sound:

• Small amount of non-diegetic sound during news report. Slow string music. Emphasises sadness of the death.


• When leaving the shop all the audience hear is diegetic sound. Cars, traffic, horns, people talking. Makes explosion more shocking and out of the blue.

Editing:

• Starts with black screen. All we hear is the news report. Grabs the audince’s attention.


• Cuts from crowd in coffee shop to the news report in front of them then back.

Mis En Scene:

• No abnormal costumes. Every day clothing. Make life seem normal.


• Shocked expressions. Emphasises sad news of the death.


• Mid-shot to get everyone in the coffee shops expression.


• Normal lighting. Steryotypical London weather. Gives an idea of what is though as normal British weather to international audience's.


• Alcohol poured into Clive Owne’s coffee. Makes audience question as to why the hero of a film is dependant on alcohol early in the mornng.


• Motor vehicles in the street makes life seem normal.


• bomb goes off. Camera rushes to the scene showing durt settling, people lying in the road, shocked civillians.


• Woman comes out from bomb screaming, missing her right arm.

Characters:

• Camera focuses on Clive Owen. Well known action movie actor. Makes audience familiar to the sort of film he does and what they expect from this film.

Narrative/Plot:

• Large idea of plot. Youngest person in the wold has died. Audience asks as to why he is the youngest person in the world at age 18.


• Bomb goes off in London street. Who would plant a bomb in London and why?

Themes:

• Death.


• Something strange is happening to people that is stopping women from re-producing.

Visual Style:

• documentary

Genre:

Thriller.

Opening Sequence: Panic Room

Camera Shot/Angle/Movement:

• Birds Eye, low angle and high angle shots of New York City. Shows grandeur and daunting height of New York Buildings


• Birds Eye shot emphasising grandeur of building.
  
• Low angle shot may be showing how daunting the size of the buildings are.


• High angle shot.


• Opens with a high angle zooming shot.

Sound:

• Non-diegetic sound. Mainly strings instruments. Slow, mournful, ominous. Gives an idea of the tone of this film.


• Diegetic sounds of traffic, car horns. Every day busy New York.
  

Editing:

• Quick shots of different areas of New York. Brooklyn, Greenwich Village, etc. Where exactly is the film taking place in New York?


• Names of cast, crew and film title attached to the side of large buildings. Gives audience and idea of where the film will be taking place. Somewhere of wealth?

Mis En Scene:

• Large Buildings.


• Cars.


• Billboards
  
• Restaurants


• Homes.


• No characters only objects


• Daylight
  

Characters:

• Unknown. Only cars and buildings. Why haven't we been introduced to the actors yet?

Location:

• New York City. Known by the flashes of famous spots like time square and Brooklyn landscape.
  

Narrative/Plot:

• No real sense of plot or narrative. All that is known is takes place in the New York Area.
  

Themes:

• No real sense of themes.
  

Visual Style:

• New York during the morning rush hour. Busy, crowded, traffic ridden.
  
• Large wealthy looking buildings. Very optimistic besides mournful music. Gives off mixed messages to the tone of the film.

Genre:

• Thriller

Opening Sequence: Se7en

Se7en

Camera Shot/Angle/Movement:

• Continuous close up of objects: paper, newspapers, journals, razors, pictures. Some of the objects are very ominous and gives the audience a bad feeling
• All we see of the person in the opening sequence are his fingers drawing, writing, cutting and sticking pictures. Makes the audience wonder what exactly is he working on that also includes razor blades.
  
• No movement except to pan across the amount of journals Anonymous own. Camera mainly focuses on Anonymous’ activities. Keeps the audience guessing.
  
• Eye level camera angle. The audience doesn't know who Anonymous is.

Sound:

• Only sound is non-diegetic song in opening sequence. Maybe to cover up any sounds to Anonymous' activities that could give away who he is.

Editing:

• Collage of shots on Anonymous’ activities. Very ominous shots of razor blades, cutting horrific pictures, etc. What is he doing?
  
• Some camera shots are layered; again one may not be as opaque as the other. Emphasises his activities.

Mis En Scene:

• Starts with Anonymous’ turning pages of a book. What is in the book?
  
• Razor blades. Omninous to the audience
  
• Dim lighting. Ominous.
  
• Blurred pale orange background.
  
• No costume (all we see are fingers)
  
• Bandages on fingers 28 seconds in. However earlier we do see use of razor blades on the fingers explaining the bandages. Why was he/she cutting his fingers?
• Pens, papers, pictures, scissors, journals. A strange collection of objects.

Characters:

• Unknown. All we see are fingers and hands. Adds to the build up of discovering who this person is.

Location:

• Unknown. Dim background. Supposedly a room. Adds tension.

Narrative Plot:

• No real sense of plot or narrative.

Themes:

• Ominous, frightening

Visual Style:

• Collage of shots of ominous activities. However the images are sometimes blurred. No give away of plot or narrative. Keeps the audience guessing

Genre:

• Thriller

Main Cast In T.B.T.R

Curtis says “When casting I look for a particular texture and a willingness of an actor to stretch something to its comic limits.”
When casting for the teenage character ‘Carl’ Curtis found that young actor Tom Sturridge was the only applicant able to capture the slightly casual manner that he was looking for.
When casting ‘The Count’, Curtis wanted the actor to be American because of a famous American deejay of the 60’s called ‘Emperor Rosko’. Philip Seymour Hoffman agreed to play the part and was excited about doing so saying that Curtis had captured the era’s spirit of rebellion in ‘The Count’.
Bill Nighy was cast as Pirate Radio’s captain ‘Quentin’. Nighy had worked with Richard Curtis in his previous rom-com ‘Love Actually’ and Curtis' T.V. drama ‘The Girl in The Café’. Curtis admits to hoping Bill Nighy would play ‘Quentin’, saying “It’s surprising how much fun it is realising you’ve written the part for someone you already love!”
‘Gavin’, the deejay who ‘returns to his rightful throne’ in Pirate Radio is played by Rhys Ifans who had worked with Curtis in his hit rom-com ‘Notting Hill’ as Hugh Grants’ character’s eccentric, rude and Welsh roommate ‘Spike’. Ifans says it was brave of Curtis to give him a role completely different to his previous Curtis character ‘Spike’. Curtis says “Rhys was perfect for the role. His magnetism comes out in spades.”

Richard Curtis and The Boat That Rocked

Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner’s latest smash hit films include the British film ‘The Boat That Rocked’, a film based around the true story of ‘Pirate Radio’, a radio station in the 1960’s who broadcasted their music from a boat in the middle of the North Sea.

    Screen writer of ‘The Boat That Rocked’ Richard Curtis first came up with the idea of writing the film when reminiscing about how he and his friends would listen to rock deejays who would broadcast just outside the U.K. territorial waters in the late 1960’s. The government would try their hardest to supress these illegal transmissions. Curtis’ enthusiasm for 60’s music was obvious throughout his film ‘Love Actually’, therefor it was only right to him that he made a film of these infamous deejays and made the music they broadcasted the soundtrack.

    Curtis found inspiration for the script in films ‘M*A*S*H’ and ‘Animal House’, hoping to capture the same essence as these landmark films. ‘M*A*S*H’, with its informality and ‘Animal House’ for its mad, irreverant jokes gave inspiration for Curtis’ portrail of the friendship and non-conformity that Curtis assumed happened in the station. After finishing the screen play Curtis took his script to Working Title Films, the production company of which he has worked with many times with scripts like ‘Notting Hill’ and ‘Love Actually’.