The film starts with a medium shot of a woman lifting a bunch of flowers out of a van, the camera is focused on the flowers. There are titles on every shot at the start of the film. The text is in an italic font and has a romantic look to it. This shot then fades into the next shot which is a close up of a wedding cake, the camera is slowly zooming out and it eventually reveals the whole cake. The shot with the cake then fades into a shot of a wedding dress and then that fades into a shot of the venue of the wedding. Throughout the opening shots there is some non diegetic music running over it, the music is slow paced and has a romantic feel to it. On top of the music you can hear a number of voicemail answer machine messages, this gives the viewer the impression that something is wrong.
The next couple of shots are of the bride's mother and the bride herself. They both have panic on their face, this is emphasised as the camera shots are a medium close up and a close up.
The next shot is of the brides father who is trying to reassure his daughter that her husband to be would not be late on his wedding day. By this point, the music has just faded out.
The brides phone rings and the bride is very quick to answer, this also shows that she is panicing. The person on the other end of the phone is Phil. Phil plays a charcter who went on the groom's stag in Vegas and he is pretty unreliable in the eyes of the bride. It then cuts to a medium close up of Phil who is stood in the middle of the desert looking dirty and tired. He also has a cut on his lip which shows they have got into some trouble. In the background you can see three other charcters stood round a beaten up car.
The next shot is of the brides father who is trying to reassure his daughter that her husband to be would not be late on his wedding day. By this point, the music has just faded out.
The brides phone rings and the bride is very quick to answer, this also shows that she is panicing. The person on the other end of the phone is Phil. Phil plays a charcter who went on the groom's stag in Vegas and he is pretty unreliable in the eyes of the bride. It then cuts to a medium close up of Phil who is stood in the middle of the desert looking dirty and tired. He also has a cut on his lip which shows they have got into some trouble. In the background you can see three other charcters stood round a beaten up car.
Phil and the bride have a conversation in which Phil explains to her that they have lost Doug (the groom). He then tells her that the wedding is not going to happen, the camera then tilts up to the sky and the title of the film appears on the screen. At this point some non diegetic music starts to play. The main instrument used is an electric guitar. The song has a slow tempo, a man then starts to sing. His voice has a hint of soul. The opening credits then start to appear in white text on a background of different parts of Las Vegas. The backgrounds are videos that have been speeded up, this gives the audience the impression that time is passing. This links in with the storyline of the film as it shows that they're running out of time to find the missing groom.
When the opening credits have stopped playing you see a shot of the same house that you have previously seen the bride in. The camera slowly dollys through the gates and zooms in to the house. The next shot you see is of a family portrait, the camera then pans round to one of the main characters, Alan, who is getting a suit fitted. At this point the music stops as the dialogue is about to start. In the background you can see the groom's reflection through a mirror although the focus is on Alan. Alan then comes out with a comment about the suit tailor getting too close to his "shaft". This will make the audience laugh, it also lets the audience know that he is going to be a humourous character. At this point in the film some text comes on the bottom of the screen saying "two days earlier", the audience at this point realises that these events are happening before the trip to Vegas.
Throughout the first 15 minutes of the film the characters are dressed very smartly and their hair is very neat. The audience have already seen some of the characters at the start of the film when they have lost doug and they are all messed up, this makes the audience want to know what has happened to the characters to get them in this state. The audience think the same thing when they see the car that they're travelling in. The car is an old classic Mercedes and it is the father of the bride's car. The audience know that it is not going to come home in the same state. Below are too close ups of Phil, one before the trip to Vegas and one at the end of the trip to Vegas just to show the comparison.
The settings used in the first 15 minutes of The Hangover are location settings, this means there was a lot of natural light in the shots. The lighting is bright at the start at the film, this gives the film a very positive feel at the start.
At the start of the film the edit has a very slow feel to it which gives the audience the impression that everything is relaxed. The fades at the start of the film add to this. When they are in the car on the way to Vegas a hip hop song comes on and the cuts start to get a bit quicker, the shots fit in well with music. The song is non-diegetic. The song is about money which is appropriate as they are going to vegas. Thirteen minutes and forty-four seconds in to the film, the film quickens up as if it is being fast forwarded. The film does this to make the journey to Vegas seem shorter, it is what's known as eliptical editing.
Throughout the first 15 minutes of the film the characters are dressed very smartly and their hair is very neat. The audience have already seen some of the characters at the start of the film when they have lost doug and they are all messed up, this makes the audience want to know what has happened to the characters to get them in this state. The audience think the same thing when they see the car that they're travelling in. The car is an old classic Mercedes and it is the father of the bride's car. The audience know that it is not going to come home in the same state. Below are too close ups of Phil, one before the trip to Vegas and one at the end of the trip to Vegas just to show the comparison.
The settings used in the first 15 minutes of The Hangover are location settings, this means there was a lot of natural light in the shots. The lighting is bright at the start at the film, this gives the film a very positive feel at the start.
At the start of the film the edit has a very slow feel to it which gives the audience the impression that everything is relaxed. The fades at the start of the film add to this. When they are in the car on the way to Vegas a hip hop song comes on and the cuts start to get a bit quicker, the shots fit in well with music. The song is non-diegetic. The song is about money which is appropriate as they are going to vegas. Thirteen minutes and forty-four seconds in to the film, the film quickens up as if it is being fast forwarded. The film does this to make the journey to Vegas seem shorter, it is what's known as eliptical editing.
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