Back to the future part and Ferris Buller analysis
- 1. Back to the future part I’m going to analyse the first 2 minutes of back to the future The movie starts with a long panning shot across a number of different clocks all saying the same, there are some newspaper clippings which are framed on the wall, and this is to show that they could be meaningful later on in the movie. I think the clocks are there to show that the movie is all about time and to make it clear to the audience from the very start. This is all there to show the audience that the movie is all to do with time. There is a bed which I covered in clothes this has been done to show that the man who lives here is probably very messy and does not do a lot of sleeping. Also the fact that his alarm has started shows he did not sleep last night. This is to show the audience that this person has an active life and he does not always sleep when he should. From the first 1 minute and 30 seconds the audience can already tell what the movie is about and what is going to happen in it vaguely. This is done by the director so people are engaged from the start and want to watch it. Film then gets more interesting with a number of contraption all clock related going off. For example the teas maid with no jug, so the hot water is pouring all over the floor. This shows the audience again that the man who lives here is intelligent and he can engineer things. But also at the same time shows the audience that he is also very unorganised, with the hot water going everywhere. From these 10 seconds of clip we can already see what kind of main character there is going to be in this film. Probably an unorganised professor or scientist The director dose this to keep people interested but also to give us a character profile without showing us the character. This show how most important it is to get the film opening right and to keep an audience engaged but at the same time keeping it enjoyable to watch and interesting. But also with really meaning that relates to the film later on.
- 2. Ferris Bueller Analyse of first 2 minutes of Ferris Bueller. The movie starts with some underline talking from a radio ad America towns are mentioned lead us to believe it is set in America, then a wide angle shot setting the scene showing typical America style house of a richer person. The director has done this to show the audience the setting of the movie and what we are to expect next, which is probably a family scene. We then at the same time here from a woman and a man exchanging dialog about the a person called Farris. We are then instantly shown on the word Farris this boy at neutral shot laying on his bed, this indicates that this is the boy called Farris and he is unwell because he is pale and lying on his bed. the film then cuts to a point of view shot from the boy called Farris looking up to what I think are his parent at a high angles, they are talking into the camera. The director has done this to show that the film is going to be about the boy, he has done this by making him appear first in the film and then using a shot from his point of view, shows his importants in the movie. His name is also the first name we hear in the move. This is only first 50 seconds of the movie and we can already tell who the main character in the movie. This shows how important it is to get the movie opening correct because it can set the way for the whole movie and the audience can get there ideas set in head about were the movie is going. In the next bit of the two minute clip there are lots of shot reverse shot from a low to high angles with Farris talking to his parents. He is saying how he should be going to school because he’s got a test but his parents say he is not well enough to go to school. The director has used these shot angles because it shows how weak he is even thought he isn’t as we the audience are looking down on him. But also we can tell that something is not right because stereotypes of society suggest that a teenage boy does not look forward to a test. This leads the audience to believe that he is not telling the truth. This probably set the theme for the whole movie that he does not tell the truth and he is always lying. We then see a girl in the next section of clip we see 3 shots before her first line to set out opinion and who she is. The first shot is of her feet in high heels taping her right foot. The next part is of her belly and her hands on her hips in disapproving way. Then the third shot to set her character we see her face she has multiple piecing’s and her hair is in a modern
- 3. style for time. This all point towards this character being Farris sister, without the director even letting her mentions a word. The reason behind this are we already been shown that this is a typical American family and our ideals are of a mother, father, brother and sister. This just proves how important it is to get the opening of a movie right because from these couple of seconds out of a two minute clip we can already tell a lot about the movie and along the lines it will probably travel I have never watched this movie before but I predict, that Farris is trying to get a day off school because he does not want to go to school and the rest of movie will follow along the lines with what he does with his day off and freedom.