Devil Wears Prada (2006)

Devil Wears Prada

: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Release Date: 30 June 2006

Budget: $35m

Gross:$124,732,962

Production Co: Fox 2000 Pictures, Dune Entertainment, Major Studio Partners, etc.

Sound Mix: SDDs, DTS, Dolby Digital

This story is about a young lady who is looking for a job and gets it as an assistant of Miranda Priestly, the chief of the fashion magazine.

Idents: 

• 24 sec Fox 2000 Pictures ( instrumental non-diegetic sound)
• 31 sec Fox 2000 Pictures present ( no sound)
• 34 sec A Wendy Finerman Production ( no sound)

Titles:

• The font is red and yellow and then back to red. This is matching the lighting.
• It is bold but it doesn't look anything like the title on the poster
• It uses appears gradually and fades out
• The letter are not in Capitals

Durration: 3.40 minutes

Sound Music: Suddenly I See by K.T. Tunstall 

Narrative + Exposition: The binary opposites were used already for example when they compared Andy's life style to the other girls which are wealthier then her dress up better and go by taxi rather than by underground.

Mise en scene: Andy is dressed smart casual where as the other girls are dressed well and fashionable. The lighting varied through out the opening as it depended on the room they were in.

The opening starts when the main character Andrea wipes the mist off the glass where the production co is written. A close up is used to show the movement of Andrea.

 The camera then cuts to the next scene where the city is getting established. This was made to show that Andrea is now in NY city, the connotation of that city that it is busy, crowded and it is very hard to get a job there.

To show the names of the actors, the camera did a close up on different young ladies who are dressing up. The movie showed a lot of MaleGaze from the start as the women were sexually shown while dressing up.

 A mid shot is used to show the actors again, the names appear on the bottom right, with the bold font, yellow and red. They matched the lighting.
Mise and scene of these women are they they dress up posh and that ay tell the audience that they are wealthy and are working in a fashion sphere perhaps because they are choosing their cloths very carefully.

 A close-up is made to show that this lady is putting on makeup to look perfect. Again across names appear on the bottom right.


The names are not in capital and are in this nude colour which doesn't attract that much attention. The name Tracie Thomas is fading from one colour to another. It starts with a yellow and slowly moves to the orangey red the same as the lighting of the theme. The left side of the women is bright because the lighting is coming from there the same as the letters of the actors name.

 Another close up is made to show how this lady is putting on a lipstick. as she puts the lipstick from left to right one name appears and when she swipes from right to left, another name appears.  The connotation of such a movement may suggest that she is romantic, beautiful and she know about it.

 There we see a mid-shot of Andre wearing an oversized sweater and pitting chapstick on instead of all these women who were wearing make up beautiful expensive cloths.
The connotation of her costume is that she is smart, doesn't care about fashion and she is clumsy.

 Camera then cuts to this women who is wearing that expensive cloth putting on an earring with a mid-shot. Again a name appears but this time it is the music supervisor.

Here a close up is made to make a point of view shot. We know that this is her journal. We can see what day it is and where she is going.

 It is a low angle, mid-shot used to show the movement of this women. She is dressed up and ready to go, where as her boyfriend is not dressed and still asleep. This may suggest that he is not working. He might be the boss, a rich heir. Looking at the way he is hair is done, his girlfriend is dressed and leaves the house, we may suggest that he is wealthy and less likely to be low/moddle class person.

 Where as Andrea is giving the same sort of kiss the camera is making a long shot to show the setting. To show that it is not the same as the other lady's house. Here I could signifies that they are middle class people as their house is all messy, her boyfriends is not ready to go to work however, he is awake this may suggest that he doesn't work and may have a low paid job.

The camera then cuts to a different place, It is an establishing shot and crane was used to get a hight angle. This shows the audience where the action is happening.

 Here different shots are used to show each girl and the way they live.

The fist one is wealthy as the was she is dressed. Her house seems to be a good place for a living.  A mid-shot is used here on her left we could see another name appearing the name is in yellow and the Director of photography is in Red this was made to match the walls of the building behind.

Second lady is pitting her leather gloves on this tells us that she is also wealthy and is able to afford the. A long shot is used to show her is a full body, The director of photography appears again red and the name appears on yellow.

And there she is Andrea wearing her usual cloths, inexpensive and unfashionable. An establishing shot is used to show her is a full body side also to show where she lives.
The music is diegetic as we could hear the cars in the street as well as non-diegetic because we can hear a music which comes out of nowhere.

 Panning to the left is used in a low angle. This shows that she is the protagonist as the camera follows her after she left home, as well as that she is lost because of the low angle used. It is often used ti show children.
The diegetic because audience could hear her shoes when she walks.

 Worms eye view is used here ti signify that Andy is small and weak compared to this place. This makes the audience as well as the central protagonist think what is she doing there and that she doesn't  belong in that place.

The opening finishes with this scene when she leaves the lift. A mid shot is used to show  where she is as well as her facial expressions.

The name  of the director is written in the middle in front of her to make it visible and noticeable even though a nude colour is used as a font. 

The music is non-diegetic as well as diegetic, this is because the music ends at the moment when lift door opens. 
Diegetic because we could hear the door opening.