Textual Analysis of a ROM COM: 17 Again

Thursday 18th September 2014

17 Again 

Sound 


The very beginning of the opening scenes, we can hear a non-diegetic sound. It is a sound, which is used as a theme/soundtrack and is not part of the story space, in other words the characters cannot hear it. At the same time, we can also hear ambient sound too. Ambient sound is a background, everyday sound, so for this scene, we can hear basketballs going through a hoop, after one another. 
 

Mise en scene 

The location of the opening scenes is in a high school basketball court in America. Which tell us that that the setting of opening scenes has something to do with students, basketball players and maybe a basketball tournament. 

The main character is wearing a white, basketball kit which tell us that he's a basketball player and about to play a basketball game.

The main character is using basketballs to warm up for a basketball tournament. This suggests that he's determine and serious about this tournament as he's spending as much time as he can before the tournament starts. The lightning of this scene when he's preparing himself for a tournament is bright and not dark, this suggests that the atmosphere in the court is calm and normal, nothing bad, dangerous or scary will happen. 



Editing 

Seamless editing- this is when the cuts between shots are fluid and barely noticeable. This type of editing is been used when the main character is warming up by shooting basketballs into the hoop because it shows that he can shoot into the hoops every time, this is to show that he's good at it. 

They've also used cut in the warm up scene. When he was shooting a basketball into the hoop, the camera took a shot of him while shooting a hoop but to let the audience know what he's doing, the angle of the camera moved and took a shot of a ball going in the hoop. 

Camera angles/ camera movements 

Establishing shot is taken at the very first scene of opening scenes. This is usually to show where the action will take place. This is usually at the very beginning of a film or at the end of a film. 

There is also a pan movement taken at the very first scene when they showed the outside of school, they did this by moving the camera horizontally, right to left, left to right.

Two shot is also used in this. Two shot is used to show the distance between two characters in close proximity to one another and to show that they're speaking to each other and to show their actions/emotions/attitudes toward each other.