Something that will

distinguish them.

The telling of the story.

• Props• Costumes

• Camera Angles• Setting• Lighting• Character

positioning

Genre Setting Characters Plot Props Themes

Superhero Large city, e.g. America, London etc.

Villain, hero, damsel.

Villain steals object, hero stops them.

Gadgets, capes, costumes, technology.

Heroics, moral, sacrifice, bravery.

Romance “ “

In a house.

Man, woman, family.

Woman and man together, something brings them apart but by the end they’re back together.

Things used in every day lives – things at home, work etc.

Love, dates, passion, friendships.

Horror Haunted house. Zombies, dolls, innocent person, possessed people.

People move into new house which is haunted which causes problems with ghosts.

Dolls, blood, dangerous objects.

Scared, paranoia.

Musicals Schools. Boy group, girl group.

Main boy and girl fall in love. Problems around romance happen.

Things in a school or at home.

Singing, school, friends, love.

• Characters are introduced in the opening sequence so that the audience becomes familiar with them from the start.

• Main character, Renton, is shown running down the street being chased by business men – could be a criminal; stealing.

• Stereotypical male / teenage boy roles – sports, social life, smoking, fights etc.• Two different types of groups – sporty, focused group dressed nice (have more money) against

rough, less professional group.

• Narrative – Renton gets into drugs, tries to make different choices but they don’t always work out how he expected them to.

• Deprived mise – en – scene – hole’s in the walls, nothing in houses, lack of money.

• Hand held camera used when the camera is from Renton’s point of view when he is running at the start of the sequence.

• Clothing is brown/tatty because of the lack of money. They aren’t matched. • Direct mode of address when introducing characters – more personal to the

audience.

• Pace of editing increases throughout until Renton gets knocked out towards the end then it goes to slow pace editing.

• As the non diegetic sounds get more intense and faster, the editing becomes more intense and faster.

• A man, main character, walking the streets wearing a hospital gown – escaped.

• Set in London however it’s not shown like a stereotypical high class, busy city; no one around, litter everywhere, buses tipped over and smashed phone boxes.

• Slow pace editing – leaving many seconds between each shot.• Slow, gentle music. • High angle shot of the bus – shows it is smashed (violence).

• Not using as many close up’s as they want the audience to know where (what city) it is set in.

• Lighting - set in day time.

• Music begins to speed up when he finds money.• Ends with a birds eye view shot to make the character look small against the

city of London. • Narrative – Main character has escaped from a hospital and is confused to

where he is and what has happened to his city.

Trainspotting VS 28 Days LaterThe films ‘Trainspotting’ and ‘28 days later’ are both made by Danny Boyles. I found similarities and differences within both opening sequences that I studied. In the opening sequence of ‘trainspotting’ all or most of the characters are introduced to the audience however in ‘28 days later’ they aren’t

which suggests that in this film, it is mainly based around an individual rather than a group of people. Both opening sequences show that the main character is unhealthy; in ‘trainspotting’ it is to do with drugs whereas in ‘28 days later’ the main character is in hospital clothes therefore it

suggests that it isn’t drug related to why he was in hospital. There is not much action or suspense created in the opening sequence of ‘28 days later’ but in ‘trainspotting’ action happens as soon as the film starts when Renton is running down the street to get away from two other men. This could

identify that both films have two separate genre’s. Also, both films are set in separate places. ‘Trainspotting’ is set in a deprived area whereas ‘28 days later’ is set in London, which is far from a deprived area. On the other hand, London is being portrayed as a working class, slightly deprived

area because of the lack of people, litter and smashed things.

• Throughout the whole opening sequence the same music is playing. It is an instrumental, which is happy and relaxing – it is being played against different clips of a couples life going on (from young to old) so it is representing a happy life they’ve had together.

• Slow paced editing to show different stages of the lives. • Going through ages/time so setting and costumes change.• Reaching a dream together – building their dream house. • The female role crying in a hospital – bad news on her baby – music starts to

slow down and become a less happier tune. • Female role deciding what tie the man should wear as they get older – dressing

older and smarter, woman helping man do things. • Narrative – A man trying to reach his dream.

• 60’s costumes/settings – set in the 60’s. • Old TV – old fashioned. • Starts opening scene with an establishing shot which shows the town.

• Car engines and horns beeping in the background – diegetic sounds. • Close up on newspaper headline ‘baltimore’ to show and tell the audience that it is

set there.

• Cheerful music/tune and dancing – representing happiness, joy and fun.• Narrative of the film is to educate and inform the audience – trying to get TV to let

black and white people have the same show. Educating on a big issue from the 60’s.

• Music is being sung therefore it is diegetic. • Target audience – teenagers. This is shown through the characters. Teens in a

school.