Film Analysis on the film Cody Banks: Destination London
The genre of the film is an action comedy. It is the sequence film to Agent Cody Banks. The film is set in America and I can tell this by the accents have the people and that the teenagers are at a camp, which is like the camp in America. The general characters in the film are teenagers or young children. The temporal is modern and this can be analysed by the clothes that the people are wearing and their hairstyles. The spatial of the film is set from the day and works through until late at night, you know it is late at night as everyone is asleep and in bed. There are three main sequences to the 10-minute extract. There is the opening sequence, where it is setting the scene of the camp in the daytime, and moves along to when the parents start to arrive into the evening and the third sequence is later on in the evening when everyone is in bed and the action scene occurs.
The establish shot, is a close up on the main character Cody. The close up is off the boy in camouflage in amongst the bushes. The beginning sequence is an action montage, using various shots from a wide shot, a long shot to a close up. The angles of the shots vary from high to low angle and eye line view. This establishing shot and sequence ends on a mid shot of Cody successfully winning the camp competition. On the second sequence, the first shot is a three person shot of Cody talking with two boys, and the angle of the shots goes from either point of view. The whole of this sequence involves mid shots, long shots, wide shots and extreme close up shots, these shots are establishing the children turning the CIA camp into a regular camp before the parents come, this sequences ends on a two person mid shot. The last sequences starts on a close up on the helicopters flying into the camp, again there is a montage sequence, consisting of long shots, mid shots and wide shots. All of these shots are used to establish the setting and the surroundings, and to add emphasis onto the aspect, which are important to the story line.
The opening shot is at eye line view, showing the importance of the main character Cody. The majority of this shot is montage, for the action purposes. In this sequence it mainly uses tracking in to out, and out to in, and pedding up to down and down to up. The second sequence has four main camera movements, zooming in too out, tracking left to right and right to left, and panning left to right and right to left. The final sequence also has a montage scene of the in action fighting against the official men in the helicopters, and uses panning and zooming as the movement of the camera. All of these aspects add to the intensity of the shot and to exaggerate what is happening to the audience.
The establishing shot is a fade in from a black out, and through out the sequences a jump cut is used to go from scene to scene and place to place. A jump cut means there is never a pause at the movie continues and never stops keeping you interested in what is happening. Motivated cuts are also used, which immediately makes the viewer want to see something, which is not currently visible. The cutaway shot is used in the fighting scene at the beginning, showing the fight and the campsite surrounding. An insert shot is used once, when they are preparing the camp for the parents arriving.
The main sound in the film is the dialog; there is dialog between the people in camp, and people on walky talkies on the helicopter radios. Non diagetic and diagetic sound is used, and during the fight scenes there is music which is not heard by the characters but by us, but there is background noises of animals in the forest and so forth that the characters can hear.
The genre of the film is an action comedy. It is the sequence film to Agent Cody Banks. The film is set in America and I can tell this by the accents have the people and that the teenagers are at a camp, which is like the camp in America. The general characters in the film are teenagers or young children. The temporal is modern and this can be analysed by the clothes that the people are wearing and their hairstyles. The spatial of the film is set from the day and works through until late at night, you know it is late at night as everyone is asleep and in bed. There are three main sequences to the 10-minute extract. There is the opening sequence, where it is setting the scene of the camp in the daytime, and moves along to when the parents start to arrive into the evening and the third sequence is later on in the evening when everyone is in bed and the action scene occurs.
The establish shot, is a close up on the main character Cody. The close up is off the boy in camouflage in amongst the bushes. The beginning sequence is an action montage, using various shots from a wide shot, a long shot to a close up. The angles of the shots vary from high to low angle and eye line view. This establishing shot and sequence ends on a mid shot of Cody successfully winning the camp competition. On the second sequence, the first shot is a three person shot of Cody talking with two boys, and the angle of the shots goes from either point of view. The whole of this sequence involves mid shots, long shots, wide shots and extreme close up shots, these shots are establishing the children turning the CIA camp into a regular camp before the parents come, this sequences ends on a two person mid shot. The last sequences starts on a close up on the helicopters flying into the camp, again there is a montage sequence, consisting of long shots, mid shots and wide shots. All of these shots are used to establish the setting and the surroundings, and to add emphasis onto the aspect, which are important to the story line.
The opening shot is at eye line view, showing the importance of the main character Cody. The majority of this shot is montage, for the action purposes. In this sequence it mainly uses tracking in to out, and out to in, and pedding up to down and down to up. The second sequence has four main camera movements, zooming in too out, tracking left to right and right to left, and panning left to right and right to left. The final sequence also has a montage scene of the in action fighting against the official men in the helicopters, and uses panning and zooming as the movement of the camera. All of these aspects add to the intensity of the shot and to exaggerate what is happening to the audience.
The establishing shot is a fade in from a black out, and through out the sequences a jump cut is used to go from scene to scene and place to place. A jump cut means there is never a pause at the movie continues and never stops keeping you interested in what is happening. Motivated cuts are also used, which immediately makes the viewer want to see something, which is not currently visible. The cutaway shot is used in the fighting scene at the beginning, showing the fight and the campsite surrounding. An insert shot is used once, when they are preparing the camp for the parents arriving.
The main sound in the film is the dialog; there is dialog between the people in camp, and people on walky talkies on the helicopter radios. Non diagetic and diagetic sound is used, and during the fight scenes there is music which is not heard by the characters but by us, but there is background noises of animals in the forest and so forth that the characters can hear.
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