RESEARCH: Deconstruction of Meet the Fockers

Director: Jay Roach

Year: 2004

Certificate: 12

Genre: Comedy-Romance

             The film starts with a song in the background and the veiw of a city in the USA, some of the lyrics of the song are "We're gunna get married". The audience will listen to the music and get a idea about the theme of the film, the song is very chearful this gives the audience the idea that the film is gonig to be fun and chearful. Over the music you can hear diegetic sounds from the city, this gives us the information that it is just a normal day in the city. As the music starts to die down, the camera focuses of the hospital sign with the name on, this is done to let the audience know where the first scene of the film is. As the music dies out we start to hear a woman screaming from pain, at first the womans cries are non diegetic but the the shot changes and the sound becomes diegetic as we see the woman, her partner and a nurse.
             In this shot it is clear to see that the woman is in labour, seeing the woman in labour is a forshadow of what is going to happen later on in the film. The nurse is being pressured by the womans partner to help her, yet the nurse is not ready to deliver the baby, the over the shoulder shot is used here, it helps as it is clear to see who is saying what.
             When the male nurse is told he has to deliver the baby his self, the woman screams which gives a funny side to the film as her scream has a cartoon feel to her facial expresion. Also the partner can not belive that this man is a male, which adds to the comedy theme of the film. The jump cuts in the opening of this film gives a funny but serious feel to the film opening.

             The next shot is of the newborn baby, when the camera is on the baby there is a non diegetic innocent kind of muisc played, to show how innocent the baby is. When the male nurse has the baby to the mother, her partner say to the nurse that he wants to name his baby boy after him. When the man moves the cloth covering the male nurses name the camera does a point of view shot focuses on the name badge 'Gaylord Focker' is the nurses name. This name is very funny and adds to the comdey theme of the film. In the next shot we see the mans face and it is a shocked funny, his face expression is very over exaggerated which gives cartoon feel to the film and also adds to the comedy theme of the film.

RESEARCH: Deconstruction of Back to the future

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Year: 1985

Certificate: PG

Genre: Sci-fic- Adventure- Family 

The film starts with a black background and various names pass with the non diegetic sound of a clock ticking, the ticking sound implies that we as a audience are being counted down to something as the names come on the screen the ticking gets louder which adds to the counting down feeling that the audience is having, then the shot changes to the face a of a clock, we as an audience must know that this clock is important as this is the first thing that we see.  As the clock is shown the sound now becomes diegetic the camera then zooms out showing the whole of the first clock is surrounded by many other clicks, this may be interpreted by the audience that all of these clocks are adding to the theme of the film.
            As the camera starts to pann to the right we start to see more and more clock, one of the clock is an important as the clock has a man hanging from a large clock hand, this is a kind of omen warning of what is to come in the film. As the camera still pans to the right the camera lingers of a news paper clipping with the name Brown on, we assume that this is the owner of the house. The clipping may give the idea to the audience that the owner is proud of the newspaper clipping as it is in a frame and is hung, this gives us the idea that the owner is proud of something that happened in the past, and that the film maybe based around the newspaper clipping.
              After the camera lingers on the newspaper clipping the camera moves downwards to shown the two famous scientists portraits hanging side by side. The scientists hang at the same high showing that the owner regards them in the respect. The fact that they are scientist gives us the idea that the owner is very interested in science. Just to the right of the two scientists there is a picture of another man which may be the owner. Yet the picture is slightly lower which could send us the message that the owner regards him self slightly lower than the other scientists.
              After the pictures are shown we start to hear the radio which gives a advert for a make of car. This is a little bit of inside information giving us the date and the make of the car that is used through out the film. Then the camera pans to the left showing the inventions such as the coffee machine. This machine shows how the owner is cleaver enough to make the machine that works on a timer, yet the machine can not work properly as the pot that the coffee is made in has not been placed back on the machine showing that the owner may be incapable of putting it back on to the machine or making the coffee them self. As the camera still panning to the left sees a switch flicked and then TV turns on. Which also gives the audience inside information, this could give the audience the feeling that the film is going to be a very fast moving film and needs all the information possible to them. After the TV the camera moves over to look at the dog food machine which works perfectly. The fact that the machine feeds the owners pet may give the impression that the owner is too busy to feed their pet or is not at home to feed the pet. When the food is tipped the shot is the reaction of the food falling on to the bowl. The name on the bowl is the name of a famous scientist which adds to all of the present information that the owner is a scientist too. Yet this scientist is not regarded in the same light as this one is used as a dog bowl this may mean that the owner does not agree with the theories that this scientists had. The bowl is also so full which shows that the pet is not around as the food has not been eaten. Also that the owner is not around as the machine is still on and food on the floor.       

Preliminary Task

PLANNING: Story board