[--What techniques does the opening sequence use to appeal to a weekday mainstream audience?--]
By very suddenly engaging the audience, there are a mixture of fast and slow approaching camera shots used, specifically focused on people and objects such as the little girl playing with a skipping rope and the mysterious parked black car.
From this opening sequence we are also able to see calm movement and calm discussion between characters, not setting any kind of suspicions so impulsively for the audience.
Gradually, seconds after this, we experience new characters that firstly tend to be talking then naturally starting to be entertaining themselves, whilst secretively being recorded by other newly introduced characters that tend to be talking about taking over other peoples lives.
From this, the first enigmas of the opening narrative come in and we are left with an unsolved thought in our heads.

[--What does this text tell us about the media institutions involved?--]
The institutions that we can clearly see that are involved are the BBC. The BBC is a daily public service broadcaster for the United Kingdom, based in the Greater London.
Aims of the BBC tend to inform, educate and entertain their audieence.

[--How does the extract follow the codes and convention of an opening sequence?--]
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HITMAN Poster Analysis ! ..

The mise en scene of the poster is set out with a strong plain silky red around the female’s body, which may connote evilness, blood and violence judging mainly from the colour red.
This could quite simply also be portrayed like this due to the fact that the woman is lying dead on the silk with a gun shot on her forehead.
The woman is shown to be wearing sexual clothing and therefore portraying a common stereotype about women. Some may be stereotyped as sex objects and whores, and this poster clearly shows us the apparent meaning.
The genre and theme for this narrative most likely tend to be action/thriller due to the fact that we can see a dead woman with a bullet wound on her head.

As the audience, we could expect to see and expect to experience a lot death while playing this video game, and not only because we can see a dead woman in the mise en scene of the layout of the poster but also from the sounds of the title. From the connotations of the word ‘Hitman’ we could refer

SUPERBAD ANALYSIS ! ..

Background Information: -- SUPERBAD is an American comedy movie released July 2007. The movie is tabled under the sub-genre of Teen Movies, where we experience a whole variety of situations mainly to do with drugs/alcohol, teen girls and boys, sex, gossip and cars.
Similar movies to SUPERBAD would be movies such as ‘American Pie’ and ’Mean Girls’ which may be mostly classified as a chick flick but can still be categorised as a Teen Movie.
Overall, SUPERBAD was proved to be a successful movie, with shown evidence of a very large attracted audience and a triumph of varies movie awards.

Questions On Harry Potter ! . .

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The key points emphasized in the trailer, is the whole misery of the return of Voldermort and his aim of demolishing Harry and his successful and unique supernatural abilities.
The trailer could have been chosen to be portrayed like this and show one of the main plots of the return of Voldemort in order to engage the audience in a more sophisticated kind of way, which would most easily attract their previous fans, as they would acknowledge the trailer better, knowing the characters and more of the storyline.

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The genre of the film is closest to a fantasy adventure, packed with plenty of attractive action alongside anxious music and masses of enigma codes.
The details of the film cleverly follow the same details of the previous Harry Potter films, alongside the same views on the lighting, sounds and mainly the complete setting. Although they are not specifically exactly the same, they still follow the same routine.

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I would consider the target audience for Harry Potter to be young aged youths, between the ages of 10-16.
The film shows to have records of a lot of binary oppositions and therefore very attracted to young audience.

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The trailer does not fully show the main highlights of the film, otherwise it would spoil certain mysteries to it, but showing some of the main highlights is they key attraction on appointing the audience of wanting them to come and see the whole movie.

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Heroes Analysis ! [Opening Sequence] !

In every episode it starts of with the hero’s logo, with the globe in a shot of a solar eclipse with voice over by one of the main characters, called Mohinder (Indian), where his voice over he gives a brief over view of what happened in the previous episode.

The opening sequence does not only give us an introduction of what previously happened, but it also sets a lot of enigmas and mysteries followed up by strange questions asked and the background music making it even more mystifying. A range of diegetic and non-diegetic sounds being involved.

At a time an actor is shown jumping of a building and before he hits the floor, a quick cut shot is used to wake the character in the new scene.By this, a lot of interpretations could be taken by the audience, not being fully convinced whether the person from the other dream just woke up from a troubling dream or whether it has simplifications of a link between one scene to the other.

Also, the sound of loud sirens leads the audience to an oncoming enigma, which then later is eventually revealed to be a blaze of fire. We see Claire the cheerleader walking into the blazing fire, with heart to go and save someone’s life. This is quite astonishing for the audience, as they would hardly ever imagine or expect a young female cheerleader to even consider saving someone from a building in fire.

The cheerleader is also essential to the main plot, the way this is shown is by the repetition of the phrase “save the cheerleader, save the world”. This phrase is repeated in introductions by Mohinder in opening sequences, engaging the audience for every opening sequence.

Cross Media Study

The TV text and film text that I have chosen to do is The Simpsons.
An animated comedy series, followed on to making the brand new The Simpsons Movie Animated Film.

The opening beginning scene that occurs in each episode shows in particular the five main members of the Simpsons family, showing each in detail of their daily routines and their work and social environment.
Whole opening only lasting for about a short 45 seconds.
The purpose for the opening is for a main setting of the town The Simpsons live in, (USA – Springfield).It is also as a introductive guidance the oncoming episode, with only one change at every opening, and that occurs right at where the Simpson family enters the house.

The Simpsons was founded by: -- Rupert Murdoch & Barry Diller.

The Simpsons Main Producers:-- James L. Brooks, Matt Groening & Sam Simon

The Simpsons Main Channel:
- FOX
Due to it being presented and owned by FOX.

The Simpsons Setting:
-- United States.

Voices Of:

-- Dan Castellaneta
-- Julie KavnerNancy
-- Cartwright Yeardley
-- Smith Hank
-- Azaria Harry

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwsfEfG6o14

From the successful Simpson episodes, The Simpson Movie was released in 2007.With the two minute trailer, (all animated), the first look at homer is an extreme close up followed up after by a long shot. As the Simpson was moved from an original series program to a movie, the creators have made a lot of effort of trying to make the graphics as good as possibly, along with the close realistic actions made to make the animated movie seem rational.There are some comparisons to The Simpsons intro and the trailer of The Simpsons Movie. For example, as soon as the trailer begins, we firstly see a character of The Simpsons family, then in order of importance, the rest of the characters in the Simpsons.
The Simpsons:Primary Audience: Both Genders. 6 – 21.The older age of this audience would obviously understand more of the jokes said compared to the younger age audience who would get amused to other sorts of humour, such as slapstick.
The Simpsons Movie:Primary Audience: Both Genders. 6-21. Most attracted audience would be the particular audience that are fans to the actual Simpsons TV show. This is because they would have a better understanding and view.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AB7VF980cEA

City Of Men Trailer Analysis

Setting of the film trailer looks as if it is set in South-America Brazil. Straight from the beginning of the trailer, we see a dull view of old shanty towns, which could imply the representation of the layout of society of particular cities in Brazil, and how the setting reflects the people’s mood that live in it.
Looking at that particular setting, I can already visualise a negative oncoming situation of the film, as it is well known that normally poor places such as Brazil suffer for a good government, good food supplies and good economy. Therefore you would expect the people living in it to be doing something bizarre in order to survive a happy quality of life.
The camera shots used at the opening sequence are mainly long-angle shots showing a clear view of the city, then a crucial birds-eye-view of the shanty towns of Brazil. Already, by these shots the audience can detect some kind of oncoming danger, which could also be considered as a tragedy in the film.
Through the film trailer, most common shots used are long and high-angle shots, and are used in order for its purpose of showing the main society and letting the audience visualise each action taken and the reason for it.There are also some close-up shots used, in order to introduce each character’s face and personality and their mental dangers that each character may get into.
By the looks of the material and products used to make the film, E.g. the quality of the shops and roads and the quality of the people’s clothes, the audience is engaged in believing that the film is a gangster based production which does not only include hatred and violence, but also a depressant issue of betrayal and revenge of two people’s friendship.
The trailer looks very action packed and emotional. It is portrayed in this way due to the sounds used in the film, both diegetic, and non-diegetic. Hear sounds of gun shots, police sirens, screaming, alongside with fast and upstanding background music.
This film trailer is very much aimed at teenagers, an ethnic minority of class D and some C2. This is because people on this particular level of this class are very much seen and imagined to being part of the violence and negative attitude of revenge, hatred and gangster like reputation. This is reflected back to the trailer, because not only there is violence and crime included, but they are also committed by the particular aged people that the audience are attracted by. (Teenagers/Young Adults).


Throughout this film trailer, we do not experience a huge representation of women, except from a representation of them being there to be portrayed as sexual objects.There is only one woman closely seen, which is not taking part in much important cases but only a short scene of love making with another main character.Again, this is done in order to show the audience the particular gangster life that these youngsters are living, which is not just violence and crime but now also a new introduction to love making while they are at peace.In the other hand, the men in this film trailer have a much more dedicated part, where they show off themselves to be dangerous, determined and full of courage.We can not exactly tell whether they are doing what they are doing for a good purpose or a bad purpose, in other words, negative or positive characters. I think this is done on purpose, in order for more of an attraction and appeal to the audience, making them want to see the whole film.