That Awkward Moment and Under The Skin - Opening Titles Analysis

That Awkward Moment - Romantic Comedy
The opening to That Awkward Moment starts with the generic sound of the city, with cars honking and people getting around the city. Having just those sounds in the background of a black screen is very effective because it gives the audience something they're familiar with, normal everyday life. This gives the audience the sense that the story and characters in the movie could be just normal, everyday people which makes the comedy and characters relatable to themselves. A voice over slowly starts to set up the movie for this one character and his situation. In a romantic comedy genre, a voice over could be used to show a sort of confession or insight to the characters life, which is a great way to introduce the character. The camera cuts to a wide angle of this character sitting alone in a park. The dark park, along with the feeling of winter and cold,
brings about a sense of loneliness around such a time as Christmas. The street lights are very typical convention of romantic movies, showing perhaps warmth or feeling of being welcome. These two ideas of loneliness and welcoming are just so opposite that could show that surrounding this character there are things that shouldn't really work together but they do. A sound bridge linking this scene to the next links his dilemma to the next scene showing off the first bit of romantic comedy in the movie. The scene mostly involves reverse shots of this new female character and the first character talking about the next step in their relationship. The reverse shots are really able to capture the delivery of a punch line and then cut to the other character to be able to capture the character opposite and their reaction. After the confrontation, an establishing shot over New York is show, this gives the audience the feeling of something familiar and of a normal setting in life and in most movies. This is done to set a tone of realism to the movie, which for the audience, draws them in because it's interesting to see how normal people are in relationships in relation to themselves and that gives the movie and audience something to relate and connect to.

Under the Skin - Horror

Sinister music slowly getting louder breaks the suspense of looking at a black screen. It gives off a slightly unnerving,  mysterious tone for the start of the movie. Accompanied by images of space and eclipses, the opening brings the audience this almost hypnotic, suppressed chaos of music which tries to make the audience feel uneasy and uncomfortable but with fascinating images of space. Among the music and the imagery, a woman's voice can be heard but it isn't very clear at first, but after a while parts of it become more clear. The intrigue of wanting to know what this woman is saying will bring the audience in until they're almost being hypnotised by her. Even though the audience is thinking they're making sense of what she is saying, it gets more an more inaudible so the audience is stuck in this endless loop of being in a trance over and over and over again. This theme of hypnosis seems very strong and reoccurring and links in closely with the element of space.Both themes being very unknown of and unclear of what it's really all about.

 After an extreme close up of an eyeball looking straight into the camera, showing the deep details of the eye that can't be seen with the naked eye, various medium shots of a waterfall at different angles until we arrive at a road with a lone light navigating down it. A close up of the bikers visor puts us uncomfortably close to this person we know nothing about and the jet black leather clothing, helmet and bike delivers a very tense feeling of doom lingering over the scene as the audience and the biker are together travelling down the road but the audience can't see the way. The biker then pulls over to the side of the road, pulling onto the wrong side of traffic, as does the camera which brings a subtle sense of confusion as if this person doesn't quite understand just basic driving rules, potentially this character isn't from around here? He dismounts off and takes off his helmet with a posture and body language which shows a sense of duty about him, as though he knows what he needs to do and it just has to be done. The camera cuts to a high angle, medium shot showing a wide, dark open field where the biker walks down and is consumed by darkness. He returns seconds later with the body of a girl.