Research and Planning - 50 First dates

This is my analysis of 50 first dates which is a rom-com, not my chose genre as a comparison.

The opening starts with a black screen with Hawaiian music playing as the titles have sections which fade in and out in a blue font to appear like waves to echo the Hawaiian theme. This continues with the fonts as the background of the screen fades into a beach at sunset with connotes romance. There is then a pan across the beach moving over a pineapple, the pineapple stays in shot as the rest of the background fades into a kitchen scenery which I feel is good continuity. The number 50 from the titles roles with the camera in the same direction from behind the pineapple in a red font to show the love, the ‘first’ fades in and out like waves and the previous titles and the ‘dates’ slides in from the side to balance the movement of the camera out.

The music then becomes quieter as two characters come on screen as they start a convocation there is then a link between several different women speaking to different people yet all convocations link as they are all talking about the same person except for the ‘older’ woman who when they are all saying the name of the man they spent their time in Hawaii with she is the one who says “Harry, Harry Pairoftesticals” which is comical to the audience as she is the odd one out from the rest of the group as well as being the one who receives the fake humorous name. The music then stops as the final woman says to him “Henry Roth why didn’t you tell me you were a secret agent?” comical as the next shot of a close up shows a man who you would not stereotypically class as a secret agent. Also the line after running and jumping onto a moving jet ski “keep going and I’ll give you $20” shows that he was not really a secret agent and that it was just an excuse.