Whats Your Number
Directed by: Mark Mylod
Written by: Gabrielle Allan, Jennifer Crittenden & Karyn Bosnak
Staring: Anna Farism Chris Evans & Ari Graynor
Genre: Comedy & Romance
Cerificatiion: 15
In the opening sequence of what's your number there is music playing whilst there are some magazines which are being flicked through with different numbers of personal questions. They try and get the audience involved and giving them an insight to the type of atmosphere the film is going to give off. Once the magazines have been flicked through, it goes to a shot of a picture and then to a girl and boy character laying in bed. The girl wakes up and gets out of bed trying not to wake the male. She then goes into the bathroom mirror and makes herself look nice not as if she has just woken up. She then gets back into bed and the male wakes up and says 'you always look so great in the morning.' This connotes that this may be a reoccurring event that she wakes up earlier and often does this to keep the male happy.
The genre conventions that this film has stuck with is the use of the song to open up the film. There is usually a song which the characters play against, in this case the song is being played over the characters actions.This music is a non-digetic sound as its a sound which the audience can hear but when the footage was being filmed, the actors wouldn't have heard it. Another genre convention that is used in this film is the use of the male and female character. Although we haven't been invited into the story yet we can connote that they are together as the picture on the side indicates this and then they are waking up in a bed next to each other.
The characters in this opening sequence that we have been introduced to seem very comfortable with each other. The female in this opening connotes that she wants to make her man happy and give him the impression she is always 'beautiful' and wants him to make her feel good about herself. From what we have seen from the male character, he is charming and wants to compliment his girlfriend. We dont know what the situation is between them yet, this is just a guess from what we have been introduced to.
Camera is used in this sequence to show movements of the female character. It pans out from the photo frame to then show that the two characters are laying in bed. When she gets out of bed the camera goes to the floor and shows the creeping of her feet connoting that she is trying to be quiet. The camera also moves with the female character as she is going into the bathroom and an over the shoulder shot is used when there is footage of her getting ready in the mirror.
Editing is used in this sequence as is a non-digetic sound, which was the music over the top of the footage. This sound was put in to complement the footage. Editing was also used to put together the animation of the magazines and zooming in to the text on each page.
The target audience of this film are teenagers + preferably females as it is more of a love film which males may not be interested in.
This may inspire our opening sequence as we will consider the use of the music over the top of footage and the way that the character looked into the mirror and the camera filmed this.
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