Sunday, 4 March 2012

Nine Frame Analysis

1) In the first frame the title of the film is shown in the centre 'Legally Blonde' it comes up letter by letter like someone is writing it. The shot is an extreme close up of a girl brushing her hair. The music is palying throughout this shot continuously, like a theme tune its upbeat and happy. 

2) In the second shot again it's an extreme close up, but this time of a card in the front basket of a bike. This bike looks to be very girly and pink and decorated just like the card.
These shots are quite mysterious because they show activerties but not who is doing them or any characters.

3) In the third shot it goes back to the extreme close-up of the girl brushing her hair. This is direct cross cutting with the girl riding the bike and the girl getting ready.

4) In this shot it shows who the girl is riding her bike across a bridge. The weather looks sunny and the area looks very pretty. This is a slightly longer shot than others and the camera angle is also longer. This has also got credits in the centre at the bottom of the shot, which fades in and out.

5) This is back to the girl getting ready while she is shaving her legs, it seems to shows her daily routine. This also has a credit in the bottom centre which fades in and out. 

6) This shot show the girl again on her bike, but it leads into what she can see from her eyeline and her surroundings. It seems to be a typical street in america for american greek soroities, this is the perfect mise-en-scene for a chick flick. 

7) This seventh hot is again an extreme close up, its of the girl putting on her jewellery. It is a very girly shot with the girl wearing pink and putting on a sterotypical heart shaped necklace. But yet again this shot doesn't show us who this girl is. 

8) This goes back to the jouney of the girl on the bike and the jouney of the letter. It show a typcal greek soroity house with people playing and talking outside it. 

9) The last shot of the analysis is back to the girl getting ready by painting her nails. All the shots of her getting ready have been extreme close ups, I like this because it gives you a hint to her personality without showing you her character. The shot moves up to show her name and that she is the president of her sorority, I like this also because it is another hint to her personality and you start to imagine what she must look like.

1 comment:

  1. This detailed analysis has clearly been helpful to you when planning your own chick flick opening. Good work.

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