AS MAIN MEDIA - Shot List

Opening titles

• Pan up Grace's street- establishing shot.

NT: Boys getting ready

• Mid shot of Jay putting on his jacket.
• Close up of Ali styling hair in mirror- camera is mirror.
• Close up on Jay tying shoelaces.
• Same shot, Ali comes back into view on camera to style hair, leaves shot.
• Close up on Jay's hand picking up wallet, walks out door.
• Camera is still, Ali bursts back in to do his hair again.
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Waiting on train then waiting for Ali

• Long shot of Jay waiting on train.
• Cut to Jay sitting on bench alone with earphones, Ali comes into view- wide shot.
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Dialog scene

• Over the shoulder shot, behind Jay looking upwards to Ali.
• Two shot of dialog to line 5.
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Catfish scene

• Close up on Jay's phone, scrolling through faux-file.
• Mid shot at slight up-angle of Ali's torso and face.
• Mid shot of them fighting over the phone, then long shot of them continuing to scuffle.
• Handheld shot  of Ali getting phone.
• Return to two shot of dialog.
• Slow-mo shot of Gemma smiling.
• SRS of dialog.
• Close up of Ali on his phone, typing quickly.
• Mid shot of Jay talking, Ali clearly not listening, looks down at his phone a few times.
• Close up on Jay's face, confused, outraged.
• Slow-mo shot of Chelsea.
• Downward shot phones ping, boys look at each other.
• End on black, suddenly.

FIN

AS MEDIA MAIN TASK - Final Script

''EARNEST'' - FINAL SCRIPT

INT. BOYS GETTING READY

THE BOYS ARE GETTING READY IN THEIR OWN HOMES, ONE IN BEDROOM, ONE IN BATHROOM. SOUNDTRACK. THEY ARE BOTH GETTING READY TO GO OUT. OPENING CREDITS ACCOMPANY THE VISUALS.

EXT. CITY HALL

WIDE SHOT OF JAY SITTING ON A BENCH ON HIS PHONE, A COUPLE OF SECONDS PASS AND ALI COMES INTO SHOT AND SITS DOWN. SHOT CHANGES TO MID SHOT OF THE TWO.

JAY

WERE YOU DOING YOUR HAIR AGAIN?

ALI

MAYBE.

JAY

SO HOWS THE STUDYING GOIN'?

ALI

HORRIBLE, ABSLOUTELY HORRIBLE - 

JAY

SERIOUS?

ALI

YEAH! I'M LUCKY I WAS LET OUT TODAY- MY MUM'S GOT MY MOCK REPORT, SHE WENT MAD.

JAY

OUCH.

ALI

YEAH, I KNOW.

ALI LOOKS AT JAY'S PHONE AND NOTICES SOMETHING, LOOKS CONFUSED.

ALI

WAIT, WHO IS THAT? IS SOMEONE STEALING YOUR PICTURES OR SOMETHING?

JAY

NO? IT'S NO ONE NEVER MIND.

ALI REACHES FORWARD AND TRIES TO GRAB THE PHONE, TO WHICH THE BOYS HAVE A LOUD CONFRONTATION AND FIGHT OVER THE PHONE ON THE BENCH.

ALI

JAY GIMME YOUR PHONE!

JAY

ALISTAIR JESUS CHRIST STOP IT!!

ALI

N O . GIVE ME IT 

JAY

STOP!

ALI MANAGES TO GET THE PHONE AND CHECKS IT OUT

ALI

WHAT, WHAT THE HELL JAY YOU'RE CATFISHING?!

JAY

NO...? BUT, WELL YEAH - I'VE JUST BEEN MAILING SOMEONE IT'S NOTHING SERIOUS

ALI

WELL... WHO IS IT?

JAY SHOWS THE PICTURE TO ALI. SHOT OF GEMMA IN SLOW MOTION, FLICKING HAIR, FLASHES BACK.

ALI

THAT'S MY COUSIN! JAY WHAT THE HELL?!

JAY

HERE, SHE'S NOT MY COUSIN.

ALI

WHY THE HELL ARE YOU CATFISHING SOMEONE?

JAY

ALI YOU KNOW I CAN'T GO OUT, MY DAD SAYS SO. UTV ARE LITERALLY PARKED OUTSIDE OUR DOOR WITH THE ELECTION COMING UP.

ALI

FAIR; THAT'S ACTUALLY NOT A BAD IDEA, I'VE BEEN WANTING TO TALK TO SOMEONE BUT MY PARENTS HAVE MY FACEBOOK PASSWORD.

JAY

YEA MATE GO FOR IT.

ALI TURNS TO START TYPING ON HIS PHONE, AND THE TWO BOYS CHAT AND HAVE A CONVERSATION WHILST ON THE BENCH.

JAY

I KNOW SHE'S YOUR COUSIN ALI - BUT SHE'S REALLY NICE HONESTLY. REAL CLASSY LADY. 

ALI

DID YOU NOT MEET HER AT MY COMMUNION?

JAY

YEAH, BUT THAT WAS YEARS AG-​ WAIT, ARE YOU USING THE SAME NAME I USED?!

ALI

YEAH? I LIKE THE NAME OSCAR, REMINDS ME OF THAT FAMOUS OSCAR.

JAY

WAIT, WHICH ONE?

ALI

YOU KNOW, THE PUPPET, OSCAR THE GROUCH.

BOTH NOD. ALI IS STILL TEXTING

JAY

ARE YOU TEXTING HER RIGHT NOW?

ALI

OBVIOUSLY, CAN'T KEEP CHELSEA WAITING.

JAY

CHELSEA, MY COUSIN, CHELSEA?

ALI

WELL, HOW MANY CHELSEAS DO YOU KNOW?

 ANOTHER SLOWMO SHOT OF CHELSEA. JAY SIGHS AND THERE IS A PING HEARD FROM BOTH PHONES, THEY LOOK AT EACH OTHER IN SURPRISE.

THE END.

AS MAIN MEDIA TASK - Treatment

''Earnest'' - AS Main Media Task
TREATMENT

The film opens on the two main characters, Jay and Ali, getting dressed. Jay prepares himself in his bedroom, tying his shoes etc - Ali is doing his hair in a bathroom.
The two main characters meet up in town, infront of City Hall where Jay is already sitting on a bench, waiting for Alistair, who casually approaches him. The two boys relationship is very quickly established as them being close friends as Jay questions if Alistair spent so long getting ready and that's why he was late.
The two have a short establishing conversation of how their lives have been going, which reiterates the reason that they have created the persona of 'Oscar'. Ali spots that Jay is currently on a 'Yellow' profile under another name, and Alistair assumes identity theft and starts wrestling with Jay on the bench to try and seize his phone from him. Alistair discovers that his friend has been catfishing someone, and so Jay explains that it is because of his strict upbringing that he feels the need for relief.
Jay states that he has been messaging Ali's cousin, Gemma, under this name, and begins telling, much to Alistair's dismay, all about her. Alistair states that he thinks that what Jay is doing is a good idea, and says that he too has been wanting to message a girl he has been wanting to talk to but cannot due to his strict parents. Jay agrees with him, but is unaware that Alistair is currently making the profile as he is talking to him. Alistair suddenly holds up his phone to show Jay the profile he made... Under the same name as Jay's! Jay is outraged and questions why his friend used the same name, to which Alistair replies that he 'likes the name Oscar' - and how it reminds him of a famous persona by the same name (A nod to the author of the original text, Oscar Wilde), and how this famous persona is Oscar the Grouch from Sesame Street.
As this conversation occurs Alistair is messaging Chelsea, Jay's cousin. A message comes through to each of their phone's from their love interest at the same time, and it ends.

Film Title Analysis 4 - Romeo + Juliet

FILM TITLE ANALYSIS 1 - Romeo + Juliet

This romantic movie is an adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy play Romeo and Juliet.
As our Main Task involves creating the first five minutes and opening titles to a new film I have only watched and analysed the first portion of the film to keep my analysis relevant to what I will be doing.

This film is distributed by 20th Century Fox

CHARACTERS:

Voice Actors:
Leonardo DiCaprio = Romeo
Claire Danes = Juliet
Jamie Kennedy = Sampson
Dash Mihok = Benvolio
John Leguizamo = Tybalt
Vincent Laresco = Abra

THE TITLE SEQUENCE:

The title sequence involves showing shots of each of the main characters that have been taken on from later in the movie and placing their names and titles next to them. It is extremely quick paced before cutting to different shots of the characters. I believe it is quick paced so to reflect the drama and impact that the movie and each of the events within it has.



Music
In the introduction to the film no music is playing to place emphasis on the news reporter reading out the iconic prologue to the source text, but as her voice ends a very abrupt and dramatic sounding song bursts through the footage. I believe that this is to set the scene for a very dramatic film, but at once the manner in which it is presented with the footage also suggests a more parodical and carefree film. The track that is played is called 'O Verona' and is presented below.
When the title cards have passed, a modern sound rap song is used as a diegetic sound method coming from the radio of a car to show the modernisation of the adaptation.


ADAPTATION:
This movie adaptation stays true to the source text in terms of the characters and depth of storyline, but is placed in a modern, gangsterism phased styled setting. The dialogue is ripped directly from Romeo and Juliet, and is not modernised to fit the characters and more modern setting which . The characters are presented the same as how they originally were in the text, with them all meeting in the same manner and all characters meeting the same fate as they did in the source play, such as Mercutio dying from Tybalt's hand and Tybalt then being killed by Romeo.


ROMANCE:
This film is very heavily romantic as it follows the original plot of Romeo and Juliet. In the opening titles of the film it is made very apparent that it is a romance based film with the reading of the original prologue, which details the very romantic plot. 


CONVENTIONS:
Some Romance film conventions are immediately addressed in this opening. One of these is the idea of an urban environment and we are immediately made clear that the setting of the film is in a large city as shown by the extreme long shots that show off the high-rise buildings of the city. This then allows for Romeo and Juliet to meet later on in the film.

SHOT TYPES:


This shot takes on a downwards angle, and follows immediately after one character, Abra, frightens the character shown on screen. This downwards angle is designed to show the submission shown in the fearful man, and how he may be less brave or less worthy than Abra. 



A major theme in the film is the idea of identity and superiority, and in the film and original text neither of the feuding households is ever presented with more dignity or of being superior to their opponent. This is also very clearly shown in the shot types chosen as each of the characters from the different households are introduced. They are all level close up shots, and none have different angles to other characters, therefore showing no superiority over one another and each character is presented in the same way. 
 







MISE EN SCENE:
This is the arrangement of everything in a scene.
The colours in the scenes are highly saturated, which gives the footage a very whimsical and fairy-tale esque mood to it. We do not see much of the telltale and expected balcony which would be expected in the classic story and instead see bright colours and modern scenery. A lot of the scenes are framed naturally by buildings and trees.


And thus concludes my analysis of Romeo + Juliet

AS MAIN MEDIA TASK - PITCH

AS MAIN MEDIA TASK - PITCH

Our piece is a modern twist on the Oscar Wilde classic, 'The Importance of Being Earnest', with the working title of 'Earnest' - We will be including modern factors of the modern new age, such as the existence of 'cat fishing' and the prominence of social media and technology.

Film Title Analysis 3 - Freaky Friday

FILM TITLE ANALYSIS 3 - Freaky Friday

Freaky Friday is a coming of age, comedy film. I have chosen this film as it is not only a comedy, but it is about a teenager realising the pains of life and I therefore thing that the film is topical to the task I am completing.
As our Main Task involves creating the first five minutes and opening titles to a new film I have only watched and analysed the first portion of the film to keep my analysis relevant to what I will be doing.

This film is distributed by 20th Century Fox

CHARACTERS:
Anna Coleman= Lindsey Lohan
Tess Coleman= Jamie Lee Curtis
Jake= Chad Michael Murray



THE TITLE SEQUENCE:

In the title sequence of this film we are opened to classical paintings surrounding the theme of a mother and a daughter. Although the audience would not know at this point the direct plot of the film they can then deduce from the iconic, but calming background music and editing style that this is going to be a film focused on relationships. The film's opening does not actually show any of the titles one would expect apart from the declaration of ''Walt Disney Studios presents'', therefore placing more emphasis on the images showing behind and setting the overall tone and mood of the film.

MUSIC
The opening song is the original version of 'Happy Together' by The Turtles as it takes us through the title sequence. But as the title fades through into the film footage and we are greeted with the bedroom of a teenage girl, The Turtle's version of the song suddenly cuts off, and the punk cover of the song by Simple Plan replaces it. This tonal shift in the music shows that this is a coming of age film as the punk cover of the song is a genre of music more related to young people at the time. The tonal shift also presents to us the contrast between the two protagonists, their age and general outlook on life.



ADAPTATION:
The film Freaky Friday was adapted from a classic comedic children's novel written by Mary Rodgers and published in 1972. The film only stays true to the source text in terms of its main premise as, in the book the mother is in fact the perpetrator in how the bodies are switched, whilst in this adaptation it is Lindsey Lohan's character Anna that causes it. Another point of comparison is that Lindsey Lohan's character in the movie is called Anna, which is a clear nod to the original text as in the book the main teenage protagonist was called Annabell.


ROMANCE:
Although the film has some elements of romance in it, such as the mother figure Tess' upcoming marriage and Anna's struggles with her teenage high school crush Jake, there are not many hints of serious romantic elements in the opening of the film.
This movie is meant to focus more on the relationship between the two protagonists rather than external relationships facing them, and these relationships actually seem more like an obstacle to juggle and overcome rather than the grand outcome of the movie itself.

CONVENTIONS:
A common convention of teen films is rebellion. These two in particular are very heavily referenced in the opening of the film.
We are made aware of Annabell's rebellion immediately as we see her struggling to conform to her mother's authority in getting up to go to school. She is extremely stubborn in her ways, and this is seen later on as she cannot choose a radio station, and dresses differently from her mother. Most of the rebellious streaks in the character are made more apparent when juxtaposed with the attitude of her mother.



SHOT TYPES:

The mid shot used to the left shows the protagonist, Tess, in her room. It shows off her in comparison to the rest of her surroundings and puts she and her activities into perspective with the rest of the scene. I believe this shows that she is well rounded.





Meanwhile, the close up shot shown on the right highlights the different areas of Tess' life as she picks up numerous phones. The close shots emphasise each of the phones and therefore, combined with the quick panning and editing shows off the more hectic side of Tess' life.



MISE EN SCENE:
This is the arrangement of everything in a scene.
The mise-en-scene very clearly demonstrate the different characteristics and qualities of the two protagonists. 
For example, Anna's room is very reminiscent of her punk genre based hobbies as shown by the multitudes of posts, photographs and other memorabilia crowding the different shelves of her room, but an aspect to point out in juxtaposition with this is the colour scheme and bedding. A lot of it seems very antique, with pale rose pinks and creams, and does not seem to coincide with t what we are shown regarding Annabelle from the beginning of the film. We may then come to the conclusion through this that Annabelle is either oppressed, or caught in some past hobbies, to which, with the plot and scope of the story is more likely to be the first option.

In contrast, the room of her mother is very plain in furnishings and is filled with a lot of natural colour pallets. This contributes to the down-to-earth nature that her mother seems to possess, and helps allude to the strong divide or feud between the two. Unlike Annabelle, Tess' room is in harmony with itself in terms of the themes of decoration, and none are conflicting or clashing. This alludes to her more-than-perfect life that she possesses. 






And thus concludes my analysis of Freaky Friday

Film Analysis 2 - The Proposal

FILM TITLE ANALYSIS 2 - The Proposal

This film is a 2009 romantic comedy starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, and is about a pushy book editor blackmailing her secretary into marrying her to renew her visa or else she'll be deported to Canada.
As our Main Task involves creating the first five minutes and opening titles to a new film I have only watched and analysed the first portion of the film to keep my analysis relevant to what I will be doing.

This film is distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

CHARACTERS:
Actors:

Margaret Tate = Sandra Bullock

Andrew Paxton = Ryan Reynolds

THE TITLE SEQUENCE:

The text presented to us in the opening theme such as the actors starring, director and production credits are shown to us through a simple crossfade and sliding pans. But the text is skilfully layered behind windows and other props to give the text a very fluid entrance and exit. The majority of the text is shown when Sandra Bullock's character, Margaret Tate is on screen, this character is presented as having a perfectly stable life at the beginning of the movie, and this fluidity may represent how smoothly the characters life is at the time that the credits are rolling. 

Music

The opening song of this motion picture is a lively rock song, contemporary to the setting of the piece as it was released in 2008 only a number of months before The Proposal was released. This song is 'Find My Way' by 'Gabe Dixon'. The lively and upbeat pace to this song perfectly reflects the built up metropolis of New York City that the film opens us onto, the song which is light on its base line and conveys positive emotions to us through its vocals and instrumental is perfect to open us onto the idea of a romantic comedy film.

ROMANCE:

COMEDY:
Comedy in the film derives from humorous dialogue and events, such as the characterisation of Margaret as a demonic tyrant in her work and their fear of her. The workers of the office send each other messages as to when they can or cannot slack off in their work depending on where Miss Tate is within the office. This level of coordination and teamwork surrounding their hatred of Margaret that even involves the main male protagonist and love interest is comedic to the audience.


Another mode of comedy found in the film is physical comedy, which mainly involved male protagonist and love interest Andrew Paxton befalling misfortunes. Examples of this in the opening five minutes including bumping into someone so that his coffee spills and getting stuck in elevators. This generates and presents the character of Andrew as a lot more carefree and clumsy in comparison to Margaret, but his hardworking attitude must be paid tribute to as he is extremely dedicated to his job. This physical comedy shown is only one form of comedy in the film.



CONVENTIONS:
A general convention of the Romance genre is the idea of 'boy meets girl' were the two protagonists move, but instead of this occurring in The Proposal it betrayed this convention and instead the relationship between the two main characters is readily established and is in fact a negative relationship between editor and secretary.

A convention in the Comedy genre is the use of props for comedy. This is very clearly seen and the movie stays true to this form of convention during the use of the coffee cup and mail cart used in the physical comedy scene where Andrew bumps into the cart and spills the coffee over himself.

SHOT TYPES:

The first shot presented to us is a wide shot of the forest, which foreshadows the later setting of the film and gives us the impression of a more naturally set film before the shot pans outward and we are greeted with Margaret Tate's modern New York apartment. 





This wide shot gives us a better idea of the first set of the movie, and the rush that protagonist Andrew Paxton faces. He is presented as a very average young man in an office job and the shot demonstrates his struggle in the wide bustling jungle of New York city and creates pathos and sympathy for him.

The slightly upward angle used for this shot has been implemented so to demonstrate the superior attitude and elevated position that Margaret Tate possesses in comparison to the other employees surrounding her, such as the office worker sitting down in comparison to she walking.

MISE EN SCENE:
This is the arrangement of everything in a scene.

In the first scene with Margaret Tate getting herself ready for work in her home we are greeted not only with the luxurious setting of Margaret's apartment but with the luxuries in her home. We are shown a large flat screen TV that she uses as an immersive exercise experience as well as a cycling bike. We may gather from this that she is a well off individual. 
In every scene we also see a file of papers that later in the movie we assume is a book manuscript due to the nature of Margaret Tate's profession, but due to her reading these papers in each opening shot of her even as she works, has her breakfast and exercises we may infer that she is a very hardworking individual and even a workaholic.

In contrast we see Andrew Paxton's studio apartment and although we are not given an extremely vivd idea of it we can see from what we are given that he has a messy bedside table, cluttered with things. We may assume from this that the character of Andrew Paxton is generally unorganised, and in contrast to Margaret Tate is a lot less well off despite working in the same area.

The lighting is bright and natural as after the set transitions to Sitka, Alaska it allows for a lot of natural lighting. Most of the shots are taken during the day so to set up the comedic genre within the movie.


And thus concludes my analysis of The Proposal.

Film Title Analysis 1 - Gnomeo&Juliet

FILM TITLE ANALYSIS 1 - GNOMEO&JULIET

This animated family movie is an adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy play Romeo and Juliet.
As our Main Task involves creating the first five minutes and opening titles to a new film I have only watched and analysed the first portion of the film to keep my analysis relevant to what I will be doing.

This film is distributed by Walt Disney Studios

CHARACTERS:

Voice Actors:
James McAvoy = Gnomeo
Emily Blunt = Juliet
Ashley Jensen = Nanette
Matt Lucas = Benny
Jason Statham = Tybalt
Michael Caine = Lord Redbrick
Maggie Smith = Lady Bluebury

THE TITLE SEQUENCE:

Two titles of the film appear in the opening sequence, both coming through on an empty stage set and with a dissolve and zoom in effect placed on each. They are slow titles, coming into the shot slowly as the music in the background rises. The font used is fun and curled rather than rigidly straight and made up of straight lines, which shows us the nature and genre of the film as being a family comedy. 

In the screencap to the right we see the main title artwork for the movie.
The font, as shown in the title paragraph above is made up of curled and friendly letters rather than more rigid font made up of straight lines which shows us the genre and nature of the movie. This movie is a family comedy.
Blue and red are primary colours on opposite points of the colour spectrum and are usually synonymous of polar opposites when presented alongside each other as done in this title. The contrasting colours then represent the two warring families and is much more effective in representing the divide between them rather than if it used more similar colours. Blue in this instance represents the Montague family in the film, and of the family of the main hero. Blue is a colour usually synonymous with the male sex, which may be an indication to the gender roles presented in the film. Red is used to represent the Capulet family, and is a more feminine colour in comparison to blue, which may also lend itself to the gender roles as the Capulet family is also the family of the movie's heroine. 
The green '&' sign may be synonymous of peace and togetherness due to the colour, and the use of '&' rather than 'and' may be representative of the modernisation of the story that takes place within the film and so a modern synonym was used. 

The red gnome hat shown above the O, and symmetrically two blue petals below the U in the title are representative of main physical features of the main characters. The gnome hat is representative of Gnomeo, and the petal design is representative of the collar on Juliet's dress which has the same shape. 









Music
As the title card of the movie presents itself we are greeted with a traditional trumpet based melody, that i surmise was placed due to the original source text's historical context. It is stereotypical and traditional for a play or grand event to be opened by squires and the sound of trumpets. But it very quickly transcends into a more modern, bass driven sound to reflect the modern relevance the play goes through.
The opening credits of the film keeps up this more upbeat and very happy toned soundtrack, to suit the happier tone of the film.


ADAPTATION:
This movie only stays true to the original source material in terms of the basic premise and plot, and in the opening sequence a character makes the audience aware that this is indeed the retelling of a worn out tale, therefore making the film slightly self aware. 
The character in the opening prologue sequence is wearing an Elizabethan styled ruffled collar, which was placed in the movie to reflect the time in which the original prose was written in as a nod to the source text. The prologue is also set on a stage, which is also a tribute to the intended medium of the source text which was indeed a tragedy based stage play. 
It betrays the adaptation in favour of comedy and family friendly movie points, as the character who is reading out the original Shakespearian prologue to Romeo and Juliet is called out from the stage and describes it as a 'a rather long, boring prologue.'
This prologue is also read from a rolled up scroll, which within our modern society is generally synonymous with many centuries ago and is used as a universal imagery to demonstrate the time period the original text was based and written in.


ROMANCE:
This adaptation of the heavily romantic play of Romeo and Juliet has been simplified and catered towards the target audience for this film, which is children. The film, although, does maintain and possess key romantic plot points to stay true to the original source text and to also make the film attractive to accompanying adults.

COMEDY:
The film is self aware in the fact that it is the retelling of a worn out story as described in the opening sequence, this is a nicely placed technique that allows the audience to better relax and relate to the opening credits, which involve a part reading of Shakespeare's original prologue. I believe that this is a good technique to set up the adaptational features of the film, and a similar technique is also seen in 2010's Easy A in which the protagonist takes elements from classic allegorical novel The Scarlet Letter. I think this technique is worth considering to be placed into our Main Task film.
The character in question who is reading this is then snatched from the scene in a comical and almost Looney Toon-esque fashion, which would be appealing to the child audience it is catered toward. Part of the comedy within the opening scene also derives from the disproportioned and almost goofy character design of the announcer, which is made possible as this film is an animated feature film. Although we cannot use these particular comedic values, due to our film being live action and not intended for a family audience, I believe that they are still highly effective in setting up the innocent and childlike nature of the film whilst still maintaining enough sophistication and maturity to keep adults interested. 



CONVENTIONS:
Gnomeo&Juliet is a film that stays rather faithfully to the conventions of both comedy and romantic comedy genres. Standard conventions shown in the comedy genre include its setting and lighting work. Generally in a comedy film the main action will take place in an open area, which is shown very clearly within the opening scenes of the movie as it establishes the set as an open aired and social garden. This is similar with lighting: Generally the lighting in a comedy film derives from natural sources, like the sunshine from the open setting in the film.
In romantic comedies it is generally observed that the two main characters have some form of difference whether that be race, class, or in the case of this film, two different family lines. Gnomeo&Juliet obeys the conventions of this genre. Another convention is the appearance of side characters and their roles, the supportive characters of romantic comedy films are usually established as 'side kicks' to the protagonist, such as how both Nanette and Benny are established as best friends to Juliet and Gnomeo respectively.
Due to this being a more family friendly film, the only area in which this film challenges general conventions are how some romantic elements have been toned down to fit the family genre.


SHOT TYPES:
A long shot is used as an establishing marker to set the enclosed scene of the movie and better detail the feud between the two households, as is shown in the screencap to the side. The primary setting to the movie is the two conflicting gardens. I believe a long establishing shot would be useful for us to use within our Main Task film.




The movie takes advantage of both up angle shots and down shots to show the pompous attitude and confidence that the different gnomes have. For example the shot to the left presents the lead of the Montague household, Lady Blueberry, as standing on a high up position, and the lead to the Capulet household, Lord Redbrick, as on the ground. This shot is used to present of Lady Blueberry thinks that she and upon extension her garden and household are superior to the other garden.

Within the interactions of most of the characters, level shots are used, and the camera work does not allow the friendly characters to be presented as more important than another. They are always level and equal with one another, as is shown in the screencaps.




MISE EN SCENE:
This is the arrangement of everything in a scene.

The high key lighting renders the scenes within the film as very bright and soft, with very few shadows in the frame. This style is used most commonly in comedies, family films and musicals.
Costume's in the movie are simple so to show the nature of the characters as inanimate objects, but are themed in order to betray distinct features, such as the 'side' of the feud each is on.


And thus concludes my analysis of Gnomeo and Juliet.