Rock N Rolla Film Analysis

Rock N Rolla


The beginning of rock and rolla’s opening scene starts with a tracking shot of a old dark warehouse because its so dark and gloomy its quite hard to make out.
The camera tracks to the right towards a wall this is where the production companies start to be introduced.
All companies are introduced in a way that looks like it is graffiti on to the wall as each logo has a white paint dripping effect and each look a little bit splashed on and messy, with the walls looking gungy and wet, to match with the old warehouse.
The first production company appears (A Warner Brothers Production) the production logo is the initials WB in a shape of a shield, the logo is very famous so the audience will already know that its gold however its faded so it looks white for the graffiti effect.
As the camera pans and tracks from logo to logo the noises in the background are noises you would hear in a warehouse e.g. clogs and wheels turning and metal clanking there's not much noise but every now and again especially going from one production to the next the noises sound, much like the noises from a rarely used dirty machine.
The camera then pans down the wall and across the floor to the next production company (dark castle entertainment) which is an outline shadow of a castle with the moon behind it with right writing producing the name of the production.
The camera then goes up the wall and tracks across the floor, the next production company is in the distance in what looks like a arched, stone door way the camera pan / zooms into the logo showing (a toff guy films ltd) the picture is in black and white (like the other logos) and shows a black man sitting in a leather arm chair holding a gun in one hand and smoking a cigar with the other he is wearing what looks like a posh suit and has a lot of jewelry and a crown on his head.
The last production shown, the camera pans to the right and is just writing which introduces (a guy Richie film)
The soundtrack is still consisting of dripping noises and metal clogs, the sounds go really well with the start of the film.
Before the last production fades away the voice over begins in the background which starts introducing the storyline of the film
(voice over: people ask the question, whats a rock n rolla? … and I tell ‘em, its not about drums drugs and hospital drips, oh no, there's more there than that my friend, we all like a bit of the good life, some the money, some the drugs, others the sex game, the glamor or the fame, but a rock n rolla, oh ‘es different, why?, because a real rock n rolla wants the fuckin’ lot)
The way the voice over speaks to the audience is very informal and sort of friendly, very slang like.
While the man is saying the voice over the picture starts fading in with the establishing shot, from the dark its far away and the camera again pan / tracks into the picture getting closer and closer showing the audience the back of a boy/man with his top off swaying from side to side, as the camera gets closer it starts getting clearer and lighter so the audience can start to make out more, like what the mans doing, which as the camera gets nearer the man pulls a gun from behind him that’s shoved in the top of his trousers as the man turns around to face the camera the camera is zoomed in so much the frame is only his middle half showing he has a really big bong in one hand he pulls the trigger of the gun and a flame pops out the end (of the lighter) and he lights his bong.
Then there are flash backs of this man downing shots of vodka, having hard sex with a girl in a public toilet, and then pulling two guns out from a holster then throwing them up in the air and pointing them out in front of him.
This image of him with the guns freezes and turns into a cartoon image where then the name of the film blasts out onto the screen, the camera pans from illustration to illustration with animation bursting out from each person introducing characters there the animation also draws part of the background setting where the cartoon characters are
(Gerard butler, tom Wilkinson, Thandie Newton, mark strong, Idris Elba, tom hardy, Karel roden, Toby kebbell, jimi mystry, Geoff bell, Matt king, featuring jimi piven, Chris bridges)
The end of the illustrated characters is a man and the design fades back into the real image of the man they zoom into him and the voice over procedes, now the audience know that, this is the person who has been talking to them
(my names Archie, formally known as Archie boy)
The screen goes black which is the end of the opening scene.

i could not find the opening sequence to rock and rolla however many of the opening sequence is in the trailer therefore we have added that.