The Proposal 2009

The Proposal

This story is about a push boss who forces her assistant to marry her in order to keep her visa in U.S. and around departure to Canada.

Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Director: Anne Hletcher
Starts: Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, Mary Steenburger,etc
Motion Picture Rating:
Rated PG - 13 for sexual content, nudity and language.
Country: USA
Release Date: 19 June 2009

Budget: $40m
Gross: $163,947,053

Company Credits: Production Co: Touchstone Pictures, Mandeville Films, etc.
Sound Mix: DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS

Idents: 

• Touchstone Pictures (non-diegetic, no sound was used) 11 sec
• Mandeville Films (non-diegetic, piano) 14 sec long

Title:

• They are in bold and white 
• All in capital letters
• They include the names of directors and producers
• Each last the same length of time and fade in and out
• The colour stays the same throughout the opening
• The job of producers are in small almost not visible.

Narrative Expositions: 

At the start we don't get much about the movie however, there are already some binary oppositions, at the beginning they compare the man and the women. She is neat and and sporty compared to the man who is messy and lazy.While she was reading a book and doing exercises he was sleeping. She walks normally and it gives the impression that she is the boss. By the way he is running and having two coffees in his hand may suggest that he is an assistant.

The Movie starts withe the Production Co.

The shot then changes to establishing shot of the woods and the white bold letters appear to show the Production Co. Dissolve transition used to replace the Production Co. this was made to make the text sold and balanced. The image moves as if someone was riding a bike. The sound is non-diegetic and it is a song "Relax" by Peter Gill, Holly Johnson and Mark O'Toole.

The shot then changes again it zooms out of the TV to show the audience that no one is actually cycling in there it is only a video on TV, camera zooms out of the TV and turns into over the shoulder shot to show that the main character is reading a book, this shot was used to show the audience her view. On the bottom right the name of the director appears. This shows that she is the USP as she appears first and it is visible.

Those two shots were used to show the main character in different angles. As well as it introduce two main characters. Her name appears next to her and then it watches and the camera slowly pans to the right. Another name appears as the first one vanishes after reaching the window and another appearing from it. This is the name of the other male character who has not been introduced yet to the audience. The name then dissolves, no other names are introduced after. This shows that they are the USP.

The long shot then is used to show the setting, where she is and what she was doing. This makes the audience understand why the TV was on and why she was wearing sports cloths.
On the bottom right the name of the movie appears in Capital letters, bold and bigger then the ones were used before, however the same colouring scheme is used.

After the name of the movie is introduced the place changes and panning is used to show how another male character is sleeping. The camera moves from his alarm clock to the loft to himself sleeping. When a new scene appears the names of the other characters appear and they dissolve, they change places from left to right and right to left, nine names were introduced overall. This was made to make the name stand out and avoid confusion in audience. The sound is non-diegetic as well as diegetic. This because a music is playing as well as the alarm clock buzzing.

 The scene then changes from one place to another, this shows to the audience that those two characters are related or at least would be related in some time. Along shot is used to show the setting and the movements of the character.

The music is non-diegetic all the way through, however all the moments and their talk is diegetic. The opening seemed as if it was about to end, because the music if getting quite. However, the names of producers still appear. as soon as the conversation between ends between the two the music goes back to loud and fast.

The dolly track is used here to show the movement of the male character. By using dolly track the audience now know that he is in a rush. The mise en scene of whims that he is wearing a suit and has two coffee cups in his hand. The connotation of his costume suggest that he is an assistant and those cups are for his boss. Also he is running that he is late to work. 

Long shot was used to show the setting to the audience. This shot shows the audience the faces of the people in the elevator, how uncomfortable they felt and how unexpected. The Director of photography appears and when the lift doors close the title closes with it. The music that was used before ends as well.

The music stops and cuts to another one as well as the scene. The camera now is making a long show on an eye level and her in the middle to show that she is the main character. The eye level was used to show they she is the one who you should be focusing on as well as that you are there and you can actually see her there. The long shot was used to show the setting were she is and what she is doing. On the bottom in the centre the producers names appear. 

The shot then changes and the character now moves towards the camera but not straight at her as she did before. The producers names still appear and sound is diegetic as well as non- diegetic as you could still hear the music at the same time people talking her shoes, her walk, traffic and her talking on the phone.

This scene is the last one from the film opening. The camera cut to the male actor character again, him leaving the elevator and the director name leaving it with him and following up to the corridor behind his back. The sound is diegetic as you could hear the elevator opening the door and piping sound, followed up with the non-diegetic music. The camera is panning to the left/dolly track to follow the character.