MAIN TASK- OPENING ANALYSIS 'DEFINTELY MAYBE'- MASON O'NEIL

Titles

·         Production company logo (20 seconds)

·         Working title logo-production company (20-32 seconds)

·         Dark screen (32-35 seconds) with writing

·         ‘In association with studiocanal’(46 seconds)- 2 seconds

·         ‘A working title production’ (59 seconds)- 2 seconds

·         ‘An Adam Brooks film (1:41) – Either producer/director – Slides across screen

·         “Definitely, maybe” – title (1:47) – six seconds long

·         “Ryan Reynolds” (1:54) – Main actor – 3 seconds

·         Actor 2 (2:00) – 3 seconds

 On Set

·         Character name appears (4 seconds)

·         Location (New York)

·         Business situations

·         Shot of character (42 second)- looks puzzled-working in an office- smart wear (plain)- Tall office buildings- Office Chair

·         Voice over (around 5 seconds long)-Divorce papers

·         Colleague looks formal

·         Mid afternoon

·         Main characters uses headphones- first doesn’t like the rapping music so changes to some chilled up beat music

·         Yellow cabs

·         Ionic building in the background

·         Picture of 51^st street sign

Sounds

·         Sound Goes with universal logo

·         Sound bridge=logo to the next scene

·         Hear the character’s name

·         Sound use to emphasise thing

·         Pressuring on his pen- sign of the character being nervous

·         Opening of the envelope

·         Foley sound

·         Narrative device

·         Litter sounds “hmm”

·         Rap song

·         Upbeat song

Camera Work

·         Close up of the envelope-3 seconds

·         Cuts to a shot of the man- medium close up 4-5 seconds

·         Can see location, what he is wearing

·         Close up of envelope again

·         Camera tilts up

·         Close up on the main (48-54 seconds) Is an action shot as well

·         Close up/point on view of the divorce papers

·         Camera pushed in on the appears – (4 seconds long) after goes to a cut

·         Medium shot back to the man in the office – reaction shot – 1 second long – goes to a cut

·         Medium close up of a woman (5 seconds)

·         Close up of man (2 seconds)

·         Cuts to a master shot of the man at his desk (8 seconds)

·         Wide shot of him in his office (3 seconds)

·         Cuts to an exterior shot

·         Little left pan to a tracking shot (4 seconds)

·         Over the shoulder shot of him walking

·         Arc shot – from one ear to the other ear ( 4 seconds) to a cut

·         Reverse to angle of the shot as we are now in front – close up

·         Close up of hand turning on the music

·         Shot reverse shot/ action shot on the music player and back

·         Reverse shot again

·         Split screen

·         Over the shoulder shot

·         Tracking shot

·         Split screen pushed screen  away

·         Close up of the characters head

·         Tracking shot of crossing the road

·         Foot shot

·         20 seconds of split screen to the end (1:40-2:00)