Horror Film: It

The opening scene is of a boy running through the road on a grey rainy day. This immediately sets the tone that this is going to be a dark film. The symbol of a clown in the opening scene backs this up as clowns are seen as scary. 

The target audience is probably for anyone above the age of 16. People who are into horror films are the main target audience. 

The use of rain and a dark sky helps set the genre, and the fact that there is a clown present in a sewer that eats a boy alive. 

In the opening sequence, we are presented to three characters, two children and a clown. We learn that both of the boys are brothers and one of them is ill at home. 

The camera work is a slow smooth shots probably filmed on a tripod or a crane. 

We can hear the diegetic sound of the rain, on top of this there is a scary classical music being played. 

This is a successful opening title scene in my opinion as it straight away gives the horror the audience had wanted. It also introduces the clown within the first 5 minutes. 

War Film: Greyhound

 

From the narrative, you can hear the crackly radio of men speaking. They are talking about war and the footage being played is boats traveling across the sea and planes. 

The target audience is probably war and action fans. We know this by the opening scene as all you are presented with is footage of war boats and planes. 

The genre of the film is war, and this has been set up by the overlay of the old radio being played and the footage of boats and planes made for war.

We don't get introduced to too many characters. We hear people talking on the radio, but we don't know their identities.

The sound being heard is primarily the radio with a mysterious music being played along side it. This has the effect that something big is happening. The drums go from not being heard to slowly creeping up and becoming the primary sound being heard. 

The ending technique is a simple fade that takes you to the first scene with a character speaking. 

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Opening scene: It's dark, theres blaring lights from police vehicles. You can hear the washed out sound of police sirens and people shouting. Everything is slowed down. You then can see the people jumping out the back of the camper van, one of them is clutching their stomach in pain with blood drooping down. Three people come out and into the helicopter. The helicopter flies off and a police officer walks into the camper van. He shines his light around, his light lands upon a body, he calls to another officer that they need to see this. 

This opening scene stops there and it goes back 2 weeks prier. 

Belstone Pictures

Belstone Pictures is a independent development and production company based in the UK. Belstone Pictures was founded by Finn Bruce who started his carer working on the set of shows like X Factor and Top Gear. With the previous knowledge of being on these sets and creating links with high up people in the film industry he set up Belstone Pictures. So far they have released 4 films with 6 either in post production or being announced. 

Belstone Pictures have struck deals with distribution services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime. A film released by them includes Tank 432, it was written and directed by Nick Gillespie. It was released in 2015 with a "realistic" budget of $1 million, it got $22,000 in the box Office. 

Tucked another film released in May 2019 got in the box office $23,080. It had some well known cast members in there including April Pearson, Jordan Stephens and Derren Nesbitt. You can also find this movie on Amazon, Google Play and Vudu. It was both directed and written by Jamie Patterson. 

Although Tank 432 didn't get the best comments from critics, with the New York Times saying "This British thriller is a high-concept tease that slogs its way through a morass of barely differentiated characters and visuals before reaching an unsatisfying conclusion." The film Tucked got a lot more positive comments with one critic saying "Just a lovely, quietly pulls-at-your-heart-strings-and-tear-ducts watch."