THE HANGOVER

ABOUT THE HANGOVER The Hangover is an American film directed by Todd Phillips, who is known for directing comedy based films, its also written by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. The Hangover was released on June 5, 2009, becoming a critical and commercial success. It was produced by the America company, Legendary Pictures. It became the tenth highest-grossing film of 2009, with a worldwide gross of over US$467 million.

SETTING AND CHARACTERS

ACTORS

SOUND AND MUSIC

FONT AND CREDITS

CAMERA ANGLES

MISE-EN-SCENE

Setting We can tell my the setting straight way that its set somewhere sunny and its based around a wedding because the props they have in the scene of the first two minutes relate to a wedding, for example- flowers, wedding dress and a women having her hair done. Later on in the scene, we see another scene with four men stranded in what looks like a desert. We can tell straight away from the first two minutes that this film is based around the stag night and a wedding.

CharactersIn the first two minutes of the scene we only see two of the main characters who are in completely different settings and look like completely different characters as one is very serious and the other doesn't look to bothered. I think you can tell by the way the characters are acting that this is based around a comedy genre.

SETTING AND CHARACTERS

ACTORS are all well know America stars.

JUSTIN BARTHA Not as well know actor as the others, as the hangover made him become famous. Also well known for being in national treasure

BRADLEY COOPERFamous America actor and since staring in hangover he’s become very famous Hollywood actor

ED HELMSAnother America actor who has also directed and co –writ American films

ZACH GALIFIANAKISAnother famous American actor, also produces a lot of films as well as string in them himself.

DIEGETIC SOUND •The voices of the characters • We hear the sound of a phone ringing • We also hear music fro a radio in the background

NON- DIEGETIC SOUNDThe only non-diegetic sound used in the first two minutes of the scene is the music played. The music played is very classical and instrumental. The music connotes that the film is based around the wedding.

SOUND AND MUSIC

FONT AND CREDITS The font at the start of the film is very classic which also represents the theme of the wedding. The colour is also white which is the main colour at the wedding, it also represents love and peace.

As soon as we find out that something bad happens the colours stays the same but the writing changes to a more bold writing which is all in capitals this shows that the films is going to be very dramatic

CAMERA ANGLES Establishment Shot – this shows us the setting and the scene and gives us an idea of the genre of the film. We can clearly see from the shot that the film is based around a wedding.

Close up – this shot connote that we can see the emotion and the feelings of a character. I think in this shot we can see that the genre of the film is comedy.

Mid shot – This shows us the relationships between certain characters.

MISE-EN-SCENE

Lighting – The lighting is natural and by this we can tell that the film is meant to be realistic and professional.

Props – The props we see in the first two minutes of the film, are flowers, wedding and bridesmaids dresses, a wedding setting, this connotes the setting and the film is based around a wedding. Costumes – The costumes are very formal in one scene in the film two minutes, where as the other half is very scruffy with cuts on their faces, this makes us this that they’ve been on there stag night.

Music- This is very classical which relates to the wedding until we find out that something gone wrong and the music changes in to a more rocky song which connote that we’re going to see what went wrong.