UPDATE:
This was originally part of my general film openings research, before I settled on the teen (high-school) and rom-com genres, so it is both part of my general conventions and genre research, just like Bridget Jones's Baby and Submarine.
WHAT I ENDED UP APPLYING
POSSIBLE POINTS OF INFLUENCE
Wild Child
All upper-case, name is bigger than the role. They are spread across lines.
NARRATIVE, EXPOSITION:
We are introduced to the protagonist, it is her we follow out of the room and throughout the rest of the film. The sea fades into a medium longshot/longshot of the protagonist's room , with two further titles "Working Title" and "Studiocanal" appearing before the room fully appears. The colours of pink and light blue attribute female gender stereotypes to the protagonist, the first of many throughout the narrative.
This was originally part of my general film openings research, before I settled on the teen (high-school) and rom-com genres, so it is both part of my general conventions and genre research, just like Bridget Jones's Baby and Submarine.
WHAT I ENDED UP APPLYING
- The zooming into the protagonist's room
- The fading in, the zooming in
POSSIBLE POINTS OF INFLUENCE
- The protagonist getting out of bed, and rushing because they are late
- The fading in from the ident to the opening shot (an extreme long shot)
Wild Child
Nick Moore (2008)
BBFC 12 rating, MPAA PG-13 rating
03:50 minutes
Lead actors: Emma Roberts, Kimberley Nixon
Genre: Teen (romantic) comedy
PRODUCTION COs: Working Title
LINKS: Box Office Mojo; The Numbers; RottenTomatoes; IMDb; Wiki; Facebook
CRITICAL KUDOS:
From wiki:
Wild Child has a 42% "rotten" rating at Rotten Tomatoes, based on 21 reviews with the consensus that "More mild than wild. This tween comedy mess falls flat on its face due to poor characters, poor direction and poor jokes".[5] The Sun Online gave the film 2/5 saying "WILD? More like mild, unless you think short skirts and “horse face” put-downs are outrageous." Though Urban Cinefile gave Wild Child a much more favourable review stating "The film has an energy and honesty about it: it's lively, funny and smart and the characters are appealing."
IDENTS
Two idents, the Universal Studios and Working Title.
The Working Title ident fades into the establishing shot, an extreme longshot of a lightblue sea. The beauty of the sea connotes perfection, so it signifies the paradise-like life whoever lives here has.
The titles start with Universal. The idents are non-serif, white, with company big and verb/prep
TITLES:
All upper-case, name is bigger than the role. They are spread across lines.UNIVERSAL PICTURES PRESENTSThe final title, yellow and violet
A WORKING TITLE PRODUCTION
IN ASSOCIATION WITH STUDIOCANAL
NARRATIVE, EXPOSITION:
We are introduced to the protagonist, it is her we follow out of the room and throughout the rest of the film. The sea fades into a medium longshot/longshot of the protagonist's room , with two further titles "Working Title" and "Studiocanal" appearing before the room fully appears. The colours of pink and light blue attribute female gender stereotypes to the protagonist, the first of many throughout the narrative.
...
Medium shot of as the protagonist springs into action, disruption of her equilibrium (see post on media language for Todorov's five stages of narrative).
A longshot of the protagonist home, this alarmed and frantic behaviour will be recurrent througout the narrative, so it sets up her character. . She breaks through the title, possibly signifying her rebellious and even destructive tendencies that are going to emerge later and .
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