1ST 5 SHOTS OF FILM 2: Submarine

Submarine

Richard Ayoade (2010)

BBFC 15, MPAA R

Film Opening Length: 0

Budget: £1.5m
UK/US/World Box Office: $2.3m, $467.6k,
Theatrical Distrinution in 5 countries.

Production Companies: Warp Films, Film4 Productions
Distributors: Optimum Releasing (Studiocanal UK), The Weinstein Company

LINKS:
IMDB, RottenTomatoes (Tomatometer 87%, Audience 82%), BoxOfficeMojo, Wiki


Trailer for 'Submarine':
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SHOT 1
Before this opening shot, there are some titles (for the production companies - e.g. Film 4). The opening shot here is a long shot of the main protagonist's bedroom to connote that this is where the protagonist spends most of his time and to show to the audience what the main protagonist is like e.g. quite child-like and vintage from the single bed which is blue and wooden and from all the vintage objects in the room etc.



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SHOT 2

You can denote that there are lots of posters and pictures stuck to the bedroom walls in this character's room to connote the strangeness and madness of the main protagonist, that his mind is constantly all over the place (lots of thoughts in his head). You can denote that the objects in his room are unusual, old fashioned and different to what an ordinary child would have in their room, to again connote the strangeness of this character.

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SHOT 3
This is a panning shot around the main protagonist's room to show the room fully to the audience. Then at the end of the panning shot you finally see the main protagonist. Since he is the first character shown in the film this connotes that he is the main protagonist. The audience can denote unusual objects again such as the skeleton and telescope which connote that the main protagonist is interested in science and nerdy things. This further signifies to the audience that the main protagonist is a nerdy character. Since there are many objects in his room, this could connote that he spends all/most of his time in his room using all these objects; this could further connote that this character doesn't have many friends and spends most of his time alone. At the end of this shot, non-diegetic music starts playing (a tick that goes in time with the shot cuts changing to getting closer on the main protagonist).

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SHOT 4
This is the second shot of the three shots that get closer in on the main protagonist. This shot has framing left, not central framing, to connote that this character is strange, unusual and different, so being in central framing would be too normal for this specific character. There is a painting of a submarine to connote the unusualness of this character and to relate with the title of the film (submarine) which could metaphorically connote that the main protagonist feels submerged, just like a submarine so he relates with them. 



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SHOT 5
The shot has got closer and closer to the main protagonist's face finally to a close up only showing his head at the bottom of the frame and there is left framing again, these things combined help to connote that this character is isolated and strange. The fact that only the character's head is shown connotes his isolation from the world (looking out of the window into the world as if he is isolated) and the strangeness again of this character. 
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