Bridget Jones's Diary
Genre: Comedy, drama, romance.
Country: USA, UK, France, Ireland
Release Date: 13 April 2001
Budget: $26m
Production Co: Miramax,
Universal Studios, StudioCanal, etc.
Sound mix: SDDS, Dolby Digital, DTS.
The story is about a British women whose name is Bridget, she is aiming to improve herself while she is looking for love in a year in which she keeps a personal diary.
The film starts by introducing their production co, which are Universal Studios, Miramax, StudioCanal and Working title.
Universal Studios is in a partnership with Working title and StudioCanal.
The Scene starts after the Production companies fade to black. This is when the potential central protagonist is being introduced because she does the voice over from a first person narrative followed up with a quite Christmassy and mysterious music. She tells the audience who she is, where she is going and what will happen to her.
The scene starts with the long shot with a tracking after followed up to the mid-shot. At the beginning audience could see a couple passing behind her when she starts a voice over and tells the audience that she is single.
The mid-shot of her then dissolves to another establishing shot of the village, the camera also tilts upwards, this was made to show the village in more details and to show the taxi where the main character was in. We could hear a diegetic sound of her slamming the taxi door, the camera pans to the left following the character going into the house. The camera then goes into overt the shoulder shot.
The lighting changes when her mother appears as well as atmosphere changes from dark and mysterious into warm and playful. The music changes into "Magical Moments" this soundtrack was used in a chocolate advert "Quality Street" in 1980's.
The camera was closed up to her mother, this shot allows audience to see her emotions and understand that her mother is a very interesting character as she has this very serious as well as sarcastic look.
The camera then goes to the main character Bridget, this camera shot allows audience to see how confused is she. Since her mother is making a blind date as Bridget expected, however she was not confused because her mother mentioned her blind date she was confused because she was trying to convince Bridget that she knows him. Her mother then tells Bridget to change because she looks like she has just escaped from Auschwitz, sarcastically . This tells us that the movie is targeted at a specific group of audience. The non-diegetic sound disappears when Bridget changes to another clothing and enters the living room.
Bridget then goes up stars to change to the dress that her mother chose for her. When she returns the voice over starts again, she was telling that this dress is like a carpet and it looks hideous. The camera zooms out from a mid shot to the long shot to show the whole dress in details, she is in the middle and it is tightly framed this was made to focus the audience to her rather than to any other people. She fixes her dress to show the audience how uncomfortable she feels in it and she would rather wear her own old clothes.
The camera then cuts to the man who Bridget tends to call uncle, because he likes to be called like that. By the way he is acting, holding a chaplain glass and walking wobbly we could assume that he has taken too much alcohol. The camera stays but the man moves towards it, making the audience feel like they are in her place. The camera then does over the shoulder shot when they are hugging which allows audience to see Bridget's face and how uncomfortable she feels towards that hug.
The camera then follows his hand to the medium shot and allows audience see how he grabs her bum. Afterward making a mid shot of Bridget and her discussed face. With a voiceover still continuing to tell the audience how she feels and what happens.
After talking to her "uncle" we get a mid shot, that makes us see the relationship between her and her father. The way they kissed on a chick may suggest that they are very close, compared to her mother. They talk about how her mother is trying to put Bridget with some guy called Mark. When they talk people behind them smoke as well as her dad. When the camera cuts to Mark audience are not able to see but Bridget took her dad's cigarette, while the audience were focusing on the voice over and Mike. When her mother appears Bridget is smoking cigarette already and her fathers hand is in his pocket and the other hand is till holding the bottle.
When she sees Mark her blind date from behind a voice over appears again and there she tells us how she feels towards him, she starts to believe that this time all of this might work and she has finally found her prince charming.
Bridget's mother calls Mark and when he turns to look up a slow motion was used to make him look like he is the one she was looking for and he is that prince, a non-diegetic sound was used at the same time as well, at that point Bridget couldn't take her eyes off him because she was so excited. A song called "can't take my eyes off you" played when he turned around to look up to who called him.
When she finally gets to Mark, the camera tilts down to make the point of view of Bridget so the audience see that Christmas jumper. The camera then cut to Bridget and her mother. The mid-shot is used to show Bridget's embarrassed face.Another mid shot is used but with a different angle to show another character entering the scene and calling Bridget's mother, to leave those two alone. Then the close up was made to show Marks face, the audience could now see the awkward face of both as the camera cuts to Bridget and does that to continue the dialogue. When we listen to Bridget and see her, we feel the same as she does, we feel how awkward it is for both of them.
The mid-shot of her then dissolves to another establishing shot of the village, the camera also tilts upwards, this was made to show the village in more details and to show the taxi where the main character was in. We could hear a diegetic sound of her slamming the taxi door, the camera pans to the left following the character going into the house. The camera then goes into overt the shoulder shot.
The lighting changes when her mother appears as well as atmosphere changes from dark and mysterious into warm and playful. The music changes into "Magical Moments" this soundtrack was used in a chocolate advert "Quality Street" in 1980's.
The house has a vintage decorated this suggests that the house is her parent's.
The camera was closed up to her mother, this shot allows audience to see her emotions and understand that her mother is a very interesting character as she has this very serious as well as sarcastic look.
The camera then goes to the main character Bridget, this camera shot allows audience to see how confused is she. Since her mother is making a blind date as Bridget expected, however she was not confused because her mother mentioned her blind date she was confused because she was trying to convince Bridget that she knows him. Her mother then tells Bridget to change because she looks like she has just escaped from Auschwitz, sarcastically . This tells us that the movie is targeted at a specific group of audience. The non-diegetic sound disappears when Bridget changes to another clothing and enters the living room.
Bridget then goes up stars to change to the dress that her mother chose for her. When she returns the voice over starts again, she was telling that this dress is like a carpet and it looks hideous. The camera zooms out from a mid shot to the long shot to show the whole dress in details, she is in the middle and it is tightly framed this was made to focus the audience to her rather than to any other people. She fixes her dress to show the audience how uncomfortable she feels in it and she would rather wear her own old clothes.
The camera then cuts to the man who Bridget tends to call uncle, because he likes to be called like that. By the way he is acting, holding a chaplain glass and walking wobbly we could assume that he has taken too much alcohol. The camera stays but the man moves towards it, making the audience feel like they are in her place. The camera then does over the shoulder shot when they are hugging which allows audience to see Bridget's face and how uncomfortable she feels towards that hug.
After talking to her "uncle" we get a mid shot, that makes us see the relationship between her and her father. The way they kissed on a chick may suggest that they are very close, compared to her mother. They talk about how her mother is trying to put Bridget with some guy called Mark. When they talk people behind them smoke as well as her dad. When the camera cuts to Mark audience are not able to see but Bridget took her dad's cigarette, while the audience were focusing on the voice over and Mike. When her mother appears Bridget is smoking cigarette already and her fathers hand is in his pocket and the other hand is till holding the bottle.
When she sees Mark her blind date from behind a voice over appears again and there she tells us how she feels towards him, she starts to believe that this time all of this might work and she has finally found her prince charming.
When she finally gets to Mark, the camera tilts down to make the point of view of Bridget so the audience see that Christmas jumper. The camera then cut to Bridget and her mother. The mid-shot is used to show Bridget's embarrassed face.Another mid shot is used but with a different angle to show another character entering the scene and calling Bridget's mother, to leave those two alone. Then the close up was made to show Marks face, the audience could now see the awkward face of both as the camera cuts to Bridget and does that to continue the dialogue. When we listen to Bridget and see her, we feel the same as she does, we feel how awkward it is for both of them.
2 comments:
Good detail, and use of media language. Remember (this applies for all posts on examples, but also industry [exam-linked work, e.g. on distribution or budgets]) that you are marked on how research AND how you APPLY it. So, as you make final improvements, prioritise including:
summary at the top of the post: Key Points, or Possible Influences on My Work (you can note a later date in brackets, in line with your pre-production planning)
making clear reference to your research in planning posts (Idea, storyboards, rough cuts etc) to make the influence clear - all of which feeds directly into your Evaluation.
Layout/multimedia: try to make the top details neater and include hyperlinks for sources; look at my blog (also covered in a handout you got) - http://asmediafilmopening.blogspot.lu/search/label/film%20opening
On sound: can you apply 'audio bridge' here? This is the type of small detail you can then reference in planning posts and again in the Evaluation.
Especially good example of how important representation of PLACE can be, as we've discussed in lessons (an Eval topic...)
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