Monday, 19 September 2011

'The Ugly Truth'

The opening of the film 'The Ugly Truth' uses non-diegetic sound in the form of a song. The song 'Hot n Cold' by Katy Perry helps to tell the viewers watching that the main character Katherine Heigl what her love life may be about, there is also diegetic sound from a helicopter which is in the scene at the start. The font and colour of all the opening credits are white with surnames in bold, the main character names like Katherine Heigl show a little white body in the shape of a male or female. a little red heart is then place where they believe love is from e.g. head, soul, heart. The little body them turn into a male for the next character played by  Gerard Butler, the heart when turns into the title, with the heart in the G of ugly. The music starts to fade to lets the busy main character Katherine start to talk, when she enters the office there is still no diegetic sound as the music is still playing. One of the camera angle i noticed was the 180 degree, this is used between Katherine and another character, in this shot they also use point of view them one of the charters are talking. 

1 comment:

  1. Some good analysis here Amanda-Jayne, but be more explicit about how the titles convey the genre of the film - you've only implied it here.

    Miss S

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