Friday, 5 December 2008

deconstruction of beginning of john tucker must die

Deconstruction of own film choice “john tucker must die”

The first thing that appears on the screen is the credits with some reasonably happy, childish music which already lets the audience know it's not a serious kind of film, even though the title sounds quite threatening. This happy, childlike comedy theme is reinforced with the style of font of the credits, they were very informal with soft, slow transitions.
the first shot is shot is of a girl, close up. This hints that the focus is on her and that the main story is going to have something to do with her. With the reinforcement of the voice over as well it makes the audience focus on her and find out more what she is about. The only enigma created is what the story is about as this point there is no relation to the title of the film it's almost like they are leading the audience astray. The setting is already set as all these follow up shots have been set in a high school which lets the audience know that that is where everything will take place.
this character is fully established as it's giving her whole life story. Already you know what the story is based on with a fast cut to an extreme close up of a heart on a note, then finding out it wasn't for her hints that she isn't very lucky when it comes to love.
There wasn't a sound motif but sort of incidental music as when the good looking male of the film was introduced the music swiftly changed to quite sexual and jazzy music. This could suggest that this character is very popular with the ladies and has a charm about him. The voice over also tells the audience that the story is about him. Which is reinforced in the title , the title gives away that this character does something wrong for the 4 girls to want to kill him. So piece for piece you could ut it together but that is just guessing the enigma comes from exactly what he done.
so all in all it all pieces together to make the story but the engima comes from what the outcome is as it builds up to that the whole way through. the setting is self explanatory and is mainly filmed in a high school. And the 3 main characters are all established with part of their past to help establish their personlity.

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