second film opening review

Hot Shots : Part Deux

I have reviewed the first few minutes of this film because it is an action comedy, the same genre of film my group is planning to make, I also watched the whole of the film to get ideas and inspiration for our film opening.

although I will go further into the order of the introduction credits on my next review, I noticed the distributor is always shown before the start of the film, and at the start of the introduction credits the first two names are the director - Jim Ambram, and the lead actor- Charlie sheen, and almost immediately after the lead actors name has disappeared, the film title appears in bold red letters to attract the viewers attention. the probable reason for the early showing of the lead actor is to entice fans of Charlie Sheen and show others in support of the funny side of the film.
after this there is a overhead shot of a sub marine surfacing this provides a relatively simple background to the introduction text which immediately provides comedy in the spelling mistakes and corrections.

the establishing shot comes in about 1:37 in the film and shows a palace surrounded by rocks and cliffs and lit up by multicoloured lights however with a desert like surrounding.

First movie opening review.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=155Ps_q0SUw&hd=1

What is the atmosphere? how is it created?

The Atmosphere is set as we see what looks like a dark old warehouse with luxuries inside, then we see, sinister looking Asian men with tattoos, this makes us presume they are part of a young gang most likely Yakuza due to its setting in Japan. the dark area creates a tense air which peaks when the old tattooed man tell his story of his previous encounter with Ninja's.

How does the opening scene attract viewers?

The target audience for this film is the core audience - 16 to 27, this age group is most likely to want to see action, so the director has made the opening scene to attract them in the hopes the action interests them.

How is the film set up?

The opening scene shows us the power the Ninjas have in the film, and also establishes to anyone who does not know what a Ninja is, the kind of activities they do. the old man who tells the story interests the audience as well as the action however the scene does not do much set up for the main story line.

the links to the production my group is planning to do because it a action film with occasional comedy.

linked as our planned production piece will be a action/comedy. 

We had to make videos in a group, in my group was Josh Chapman, Jamie Hall and William Ruhl.
In our groups we had to follow instructions on what we had to include in the video, we managed to reach these requirements and edit a successful scene. each of us had a turn at editing and although we re-edited it a couple of times changing around a couple of shots we also had to re-film some of it, over all though we have produced a successful video, please enjoy.

Warp films

There is warp films and there is warp x-

warp films is a company that make films adverts and other media products, they use their own directors and other technical staff to produce these films, they have made films such as four lions,- Which made £608,608 (UK) (9 May 2010) (115 Screens) on its opening weekend

and the altogether gross was £2,686,096 (UK) (13 June 2010).

Warp films also produced this is England 86' a TV drama series that span over 4 episodes on channel 4.

warp x however is run by the same people but is set up to find new and upcoming talent in the form of directors and other media staff, they also fund small films and get funding from film 4 and the UK film council, they have supported directors such as Xiaolu Guo who made 'she, a Chinese' and Paul king who made 'bunny and the bull'.

they also provide training and jobs for new directors enabling them to produce better films and help keep the UK film market alive and running with new talent and new films.