Weekly Analysis - Week 1

• Settings and Props - They are stuck in an elevator so this already shows the funny side of the situation 3 men and a baby, also one of the men has hurt himself.
• Costume, Hair & Make Up - The guy on the far left has a beard and is wearing sunglasses, not your usual guy which is funny, then the middle guy has his glasses hanging, nice shirt and jeans, just laid back casual, and the guy on the far right has glasses maybe stereotyping him as a geek.
• Facial Expressions & Body Language - The facial expressions and body language are very important, for example the guy on the far right appears to be hurt, whats suggests this is the fact he is holding a tissue to his mouth and looks in pain, the guy in the center, judging his facial expressions he looks laidback and cool not caring about the situation in hand. Last of all the guy on the left, looks stupid as ever, he has a beard, sunglasses, in an elevator not making any sense at all. Whereas the baby, looks like it's in it's own world, and probably 'done' toilet.

Comedy Movie Poster Annotation

Genre: The genre of this poster is a comedy/spoof.

Codes & Conventions:

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   Make the audience laugh
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   Sticking to theme of a spoof of another film
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   It also expects that the people who watch the film to have watched the films it makes fun of, otherwise the audience wouldn't get the jokes.

Denotative Levels:

• His Dragonfly Logo meaning his logo isn't a great animal so meaning he isn't as strong possibly.
• The popcorn on the poster is associated with the main superhero suggesting he's a normal everyday casual guy and not a strong brave dedicated superhero like the rest.

Connative Levels: 

• The spoofs of different types of superhero's suggesting there all bad, meaning they aren't proper superhero's.
• The quote ' the greatest superhero movie of all time(not including the others) ' this just says it all, it's sarcasm highlights how bad it is.

Audience:

The selected audience for this film would be fans of superhero movies, because it is a superhero movie, although it is a spoof, so lovers of films such as Scary Movie, Not another Teen Movie and etc.... would enjoy this, they would expect explosions, fights, a pretty girl and a super villian but because it's a spoof they'd expect a really bad superhero, a stupid super hot girl, and a super villian that tries to be bad but isn't cut for the job.

Saving Private Ryan - Opening Scene - First Film Analysis

This is the opening of the film Saving Private Ryan. The film genre is a war film. The genre conventions are to present warfare, usually about naval, air and land battles, sometimes focusing on prisoners of war, covert operations, military training or other related subjects.

The opening scene is set on the Ohama beaches, as the soldiers are just going into war, this symbolises there has been a major disagreement or argument over something between two countries or possibly more.

The key signifiers in the opening sequence are the sound of rain and guns bullets firing, eventually leading to the boat being dropped and silence as the soldiers are underwater and cannot hear. The sound of bullets firing signifies war which is what there about to start and the sound of rain, signifies sad times ahead, quiet and patience.

This sequence tells us that it's going to be a film full of action packed war. I expect the rest of the film to be full of war and fighting and someone to win the war, or for the problem there having to be resolved.

The audience that is being targeted are people who want action, explosions, war heros, weapons and evil leaders.  

Step Brothers Trailer HD

Step Brothers - Step Brothers is a film about Two guys whose Mom & Dad get married making them step brothers and having too move in together, the get off to a bad start but eventually make friends and become real brother. The storyline isn't a simple as this as lots of obstacles get in the way causing many laughs. Perfect.

SuperBad - Movie Trailer - HD Quality

Superbad -  Superbad is a perfect comedy, it's about a group of teens who want to get noticed by some girls and the rest of there classmates before they leave for college, this brings you laughs throughout the whole film. This would be a good film to base our own comedy opening on.

Group Members

• Ryan Knight
• Dean Harding
• Matthew Cartwright