Wild Child

This is an establishing shot of the sea view, this is used so the audience knows some of where the film is set. It is of a deep blue sea and the audience will think of the American coastline. In the centre of the shot it shows the Universal Pictures presents this film.

The establishing shot then merges into a medium shot of the girls bed while she is sleeping. For the audience this is the first time they have met the main character, they see she is a blonde teenage girl.

The shot then turns into a medium close up shot of the girls faces when she walks up. Her face is in the middle of the view but to the left of the shot. Being such a close up of her face makes the audience centre their attentions onto her expressions. The non-diegetic music is a smooth relaxing tone too go with the girl sleeping.

The non-diegetic music then changes sharply into a more upbeat rock song with goes with the girl realising what day is it. Because this is an long shot of the girls room the audience can see what the girl is interested such as bag hanging on the rack and there are lots of fluffy pillows. This shot also show the audience the title of the film.

This shot is behind the girl and as we can see by the volcano erupting as the sign for the date on the calendar it lets the audience know that it is a day been building up for. The shots have been continuously edited to allow the audience to catch on what is going on in the story.

This is then a extreme close up shot of another girl making a peanut and jam sandwich which is stereotypically an American thing such suggest to the audience that this is based in America.

This is a medium close up shot of the main character having a conversation about their Dad’s partner moving in. By the diegetic music the girls do not what “Rosemary” to move in, also by the sister saying “liked you let me forget” suggest to the audience that this day has been building up for a while. During the conversation it is shot-reverse-shot so the audience can follow the conversation.

Again this is a close up shot of the main character cutting the crusts of the sandwich of the sisters which shows the audience that there relationship is close with one another and that the older sister takes the Mothers role in the house.

This is a medium shot of the girl and her friends. The deictic sounds allows the audience to now that what the girl is going to give “Rosemary” cloths away. By the characters in this shot it shows the audience what sort of age group will be in this film.

This shot is an long shot of the girl jumping in over the edge of the pool. She is in the centre of the shot so even though she is not directly in the view the audience is drawn to what she is doing. There is teenagers in the pool witch suggests that they are on school holidays and are having a fun time.

Summary

Overall the start of this film there is a wide selection of establishing shots, close up and medium shot of the scenes. The see where the character is living, in a big Miami house looking out onto the see with and infinity pool. There are no shots of horror to makes the audience feel like they are in suspense so they know it is not going to be a horror film but a light heart chick flick. All the colours are pink and white and very girly. The use of the diegetic sound lets the audience know what is going on during the film.