Just like heaven-Directed by Mark Waters
It starts with calm and dreamy music with the studio logo, (dream works) the titles are very girly, because of the pink and white, makes it seem fluffy and feminine. The song in the background is very girly, this is because is very upbeat and sung by a girl. The titles carry on even when the film starts the titles are still coming up on the side. From the ‘Dream Works’ opening, the clouds spiral down into an aerial shot, so you can see the garden she is sitting in. At the beginning she is day dreaming in her own world, in this garden full of flowers, which also signifies the act that this is a girly romantic film. Then she gets clicked out of her day dream and you see that she is a nurse/doctor, which is a good career to have, and what young girls, and women inspire and aspire to be, this is because it shows that she is very high up, and is in a well-paid job. Then you get to see how much of a hard worker she is. She has been at work for 26 hours, this shows that she is determine and loves doing a job, this could be a good role model for people to look up to. Then she’s in a car crash, the build up to this is very obvious, this is because she’s just finished her 26 hour shift, and is driving home in the dark, whilst it is raining, on the phone to her sister, and she was rushing because she was late. When she crashes, the main male character comes into the movie, he comes across very geeky, he’s looking for a new home, we don’t know why he is looking for a new home to begin with, but then we later become to learn that it is because of the loss of his marriage. He then moves into the house where the women who was in the car crash lived before this happens. The music that is used is very innocent and shows that it’s a romantic comedy. The comedy aspect of this is when the old man in the hospital keeps asking the protagonist to marry him, and he asks her 3 times, and the last time, his bums out so it makes people laugh. This film was also based on a book, which shows that there was already a target audience for this film even before it was made. It was based on a romantic novel so it goes under the category, chick flick.
How to lose a guy in 10 days
Director: Donald Petrie
Main characters: Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey
This film starts with very upbeat music straight away, even when the studio logo comes on ‘paramount pictures’ the music is playing, this shows that it is going to be a bubbly, girly song because of the music that is being played. Then when the film starts it goes into the titles, but the titles have been edited so it looks like a magazine when it is being played, this shows that it is going to be a girly film (chick flick) because of the colour scheme that has been used, in the titles, are pinks and purples, that sweep across the screen, this signifies the genre that it has been put into. You couldn’t imagine a sci-fi or a horror, to have pink and purple words with bubbly floating text. In the magazine it shows of how to do different things in 10 days so, you get the feel that this film is going to be her next story in a magazine, for instance one of them was ‘how to get away from a speeding fine in 10 steps.’ It kind of feels like all the things in the magazines are going to be all of her life experiences and then she writes about them, in this magazine. The main character is blonde with blue eyes and is played by Kate Hudson. Her character contradicts stereotypical blonde girls. She works as a journalist for a magazine company and her intelligence is shown when she tells her friend that she wants to write something important about politics or the environment. Her job is an aspirational job, a job that a lot of people wish to have. Most of the characters in the opening scene are power dressing. They wearing business dress, suits, shirts, and blouses etc. The film is set in New York which is a glamorous city and it ties in with the fact that Andy works for a fashion magazine - Her life is dreamlike and a fantasy.
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