Film Analysis 2

For the second film analysis i am going to look at Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSIOopnk7L8&NR=1


The film starts with a title coming out for the black. This shows already that's its going to be a dark/mysterious film. Also the music seems to increase in volume, which adds to the tension. The Camera then seems to go through the Warner bro's logo, revealing skulls.

The camera pans down to the bottom of the skulls and a snake comes out of a hole. At this point the film is still dark, creating tension for the audience. The camera pans up and reveals in the sky the `Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire` title coming towards the audience just like the Warner bros. The Harry Potter theme tune plays when the title appears and when it goes out of shot, it goes back to the original starting soundtrack.
An establishing shot is shown, to set the scene for the audience. 

The film then focuses on an elderly man, boiling a kettle. He sees a light in the manor house from his home in the grounds. there's a close up of him picking up his keys and then there's a long shot of him with a torch walking through the gardens in a hurried pace. A close up of the torch, showing how bright it is. He enters the house, and starts to shine a torch light at things in the house.

 As he climbs the stairs, voices start to appear from up the stairs. A long shot of light coming from a room is shown. Diagetic sounds like the creaking of the stairs is heard. The camera then zooms to a close up of the people in the room. The man is then hit by the hidden mans spell and the camera is drawn straight back to the now boiled kettle.

The conventions of an action/adventure film are:
Story of a good character verses a bad character, where disputes are solved by physical force
Normally requires big budget special effects and stunt works Its likely a chase scene will be involved
Damsel in distress tends to be used but in recent movies female characters have become stronger in action/adventure movies (becoming main characters e.g. Hermione in hp) and even work alongside the strong male characters.
And the good character always wins.
Harry potter uses all these conventions in their films.