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media presentation-opening scene By immy m
What narrative is given to us and from this opening scene what do we expect the rest of the films narratives to be? From watching this opening sequence we learn from the narrative that it is a horror and includes many subgenres such as good vs evil,innocence,blood,comedy and eeriness as well as mystery. These genres are shown through just this opening 3-minute scene. The rest of the film's narratives will most likely be about this dancing clown known as penny-wise. Which. The movies narrative is based off.
How is the genre of the film set up in the opening scene..? To set up the genre being ‘horror’ there is a representation between good and evil. Particularly through the way the main little boy who we are introduced to straight away is portrayed as very innocent as he is a young, cute and innocent playful character, this interprets the idea that he could be vulnerable. As the opening scene goes on we then meet the evil character in this circumstance it is a clown known as ‘pennywise’ from an audiences perspective we instantly no hes evil from the way he looks, with cracked white skin, huge red mouth and all together incredibly creepy looking;. Therefore I’d say the genre of this film is set up mostly through what the characters look like in this opening scene.
Who is the target audience for this film. I would say this film is targeted towards teenagers through to middle aged adults. Roughly age wise 15-35. I would say it is male dominated as in this opening scene the three characters we are introduced to are all male, and most of the cast of this film are male. It is most likely to be white race dominated, as most of the cast are white. Heterosexuals dominated as again in the film there are no other relationships apart from the heterosexual ones. It would also be targeted at the fans of the novel written by Stephen King. As they would definitleygo and see the film.
How many characters are introduced and what do we know about them? • We are introduced to three characters these characters are Billy- an older brother who is sending his little brother of with a paper boat down the road. He is a white 13-year-old teenager. • Secondly, we are introduced to Georgie he is a young little boy who is roughly around 6 years old. He has gone down the road to send a paper boat off to his dad. The final character we meet is pennywise, he is an evil clown who is looking for victims, he is living in the sewers, he is thousands and thousands years old.
Key moments of sound and camera work • Sound- • When Georgie (the young main boy) leaves the house with this paper boat we instantly hear the sound of the rain falling, which quickly connotes a creepy and dark setting for the audience, however when Georgie starts running along the street some music is introduced, it is quite joyful music that takes the audience on the journey with Georgie, it is played as a long diegetic sound in the back whilst Georgie is running and giggling along the road. This connotes that he is a young happy boy and brings us away from the fact that it is dark and raining and all together quite miserable. • Camera work- • When Georgie looses his boat and it falls into the sewers the camera work instantly changed to the clowns pov from the sewer and looking up at Georgie, however when pennywise shows himself the camera angle again changes to outside the sewers and almost looks down on pennywise, which is a high shot angle, this gives the audience the sense that he is vulnerable and maybe not so evil, it also makes him look unpowerful and not in control. I believe the director did this in the opening scene to trick the audience and to not let on how evil the clown really is. It is also interesting how the camera is taken from a low shot when filming Georgie communicating with the clown, as this gives Georgie status, power and to seem like he is in control. Both shots are clearly opposite to what each of these characters are.
Conclusion of horror genre-it I believe that this opening sequence was very good as there was clear information supporting the genre of the film, it gave us a clear introduction of the characters and. What the plot was, however, it saved surprises and did not give away too much which is good as it attracts the audience to watch the whole film.
