Media Language in Twenty Four Seven
Twenty Four Seven (Shane Meadows, 1997)
A Room for Romeo Brass (Shane Meadows, 1999)
Budget: unknown
Gross: $18k
The length of the opening: 5 minutes 39 seconds.Failed to get a UK cinema release. But a very brief US release and only made $18000. The first take of the opening sequence is 1 minute and 10 seconds. This shows that it is more of a drama that an action filled film as they tend to use very short shots. Appears to be a rural setting. There is an initial establishing shot also an extreme long shot. Again this lack of editing implies it will be a drama. Only one company ident. As with Dead Man's shoes the directors name is presented as 'A Shane Meadows Film' this is reflecting the auteur theory. BBC films and The arts council also helped fund this film, as they do with other very low budget films.
In the second take the mis-en-scene is a very poor area with metal shutters. This is not very glamorous and the complete opposite to hollywood style films. This is one of the features that indicates it is a social realist film. The non-diegetic music makes the film seem a lot more light-hearted and doesn't make the atmosphere seem serious. This upbeat is played over the whole opening sequence and is called an audio bridge.
Budget: £1.5m
Gross: £175k
4 minutes or 16 minutes.
The idents shown at the beginning of the film are BBC films and Scala. The directors name is presented as 'A Shane Meadows Film'. This is reflecting the auteur theory. There is only one star in the film named. The first thing you notice from the opening shot is that it is in black and white. The film starts with an establishing shot. It is bleak and obvious from this very long first shot that it is going to be a serious drama. This first shot lasts for 30 seconds. More names start to appear after this first shot. The names stand out well against the bleak background as they are all in upper case and bold. The next shot is of the older man. This is a close up and shows the emotion and the condition that he is in better than it would from any other shot. It also helps the audience to sympathise more and feel the same emotions.
There is then a voice over. Up to this point there had been very minimal dialogue so there was some narrative enigma as it was hard to hear if the characters had an accents may be indicating where the film is meant to be set.
Depending on where you interpret the opening sequence ends it ends at either
A Room for Romeo Brass (Shane Meadows, 1999)Budget: unknown
Gross: $18k
The length of the opening: 5 minutes 39 seconds.Failed to get a UK cinema release. But a very brief US release and only made $18000. The first take of the opening sequence is 1 minute and 10 seconds. This shows that it is more of a drama that an action filled film as they tend to use very short shots. Appears to be a rural setting. There is an initial establishing shot also an extreme long shot. Again this lack of editing implies it will be a drama. Only one company ident. As with Dead Man's shoes the directors name is presented as 'A Shane Meadows Film' this is reflecting the auteur theory. BBC films and The arts council also helped fund this film, as they do with other very low budget films.
In the second take the mis-en-scene is a very poor area with metal shutters. This is not very glamorous and the complete opposite to hollywood style films. This is one of the features that indicates it is a social realist film. The non-diegetic music makes the film seem a lot more light-hearted and doesn't make the atmosphere seem serious. This upbeat is played over the whole opening sequence and is called an audio bridge.
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