Screen shot 1
The shot then changes to the woman shown in the first screen shot in which she has a few lines of dialogue. Then the shot changes back to the two characters as the camera moves up to a normal level. This is because the character whose point of view the shot is in is standing up. The angle of the camera then switches to be looking through the original two characters’ shoulders (screen shot 2), which introduces us to the main character.
The scene then goes to a long shot of all three of them with the main character and the woman posing for a photograph. Evidently these people are the main characters parents as we can tell by the dialogue and the affectionate stance of each person. There is a hypo-real camera click which leads to the shot being still (Screen shot 3) as if it is the picture that the father has just taken.
There is then a voiceover over the still image. This then flips to a series of shots of people who are the main characters examples of ‘home-schooled freaks’. I thought these short scenes were good because they created a comedic effect which introduces the theme of the film as a rom-com. The short scenes then cut to pictures of the family in Africa again with a voiceover explaining the pictures. It then cuts to another long shot of the family standing outside a school (Screenshot 4) exchanging some dialogue.
Screen shot 4
The main character then turns away to cross the road and is startled when she is almost hit by a bus. The shot then quickly changes to a close up of the parents reaction to their child almost getting run over and once again quickly back to the main character who then proceeds to cross the road safely from the viewpoint of the mother (Screen shot 5). Throughout these scenes the lighting stays pretty much the same; quite subtle and subdued.
Superbad- at the beginning of this film along with the opening credits there is a brightly coloured background with silhouettes of the main characters dancing. The soundtrack over the top of this is funky jazz music, which really drew my attention in. Shortly after the start of the opening credits the name of the movie is written in bold at the bottom right of the screen with one of the silhouettes dancing next to it. These credits carry on for a while with the same jazz music playing. The music follows through to the opening scene which starts with a close-up shot of a front of a red car (Screen shot 1). The shot slowly rises so the audience can see the front windshield of the car and introduces the first main character.
Screen shot 1
The shot then zooms in to the character’s face through the windshield. It then flips to a side image of the character inside of the car with the same music playing as if it’s on the radio. The character gets out his phone and calls his friend, whom the camera then switches to. The audience is now introduced to the second main character with a long shot view of him in his kitchen answering his phone (Screen shot 2).
Screen shot 2
As the characters talk the camera shots flip between each of them. The Camera then follows the second character (shown in Screen shot 2), that is still on the phone, walking round to be right in front of the camera. While he is doing this there is a voiceover of what the first character is saying down the phone. The voiceover then links in with the shot of the character (Screen shot 3) and there is more dialogue, the shot then switches back to the second character. I think the use of these shots going back and forth between the characters as they converse is good because it makes it easier for an audience to get to know the characters.
Screen Shot 3
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