'Last Chance Harvey'
Director: Joel Hopkins
Year: 2008
Genre: Romantic Comedy
- Mixture of digetic and non-digetic sound, adapts more of a hollywood style.
- Montage of still location images, sliced together also quotes from critics used as title to entince the audience to watch the film in its entirety.
- Upbeat soundtrack, immediate voiceover; tells the story, viewer is introduced to the main character.
- Use of extensive split screens, showing different parts of the scene at the same time.
- Usage of fade to white/black transitions, very quick editing.
- Wide variety of location choices, bar/city surroundings.
- Increased use of dissolve transition, helps to tell the story, follow linear narrative.
- Focuses on the high and low points within the film.
- Voiceover mirrors footage, irony.
- Feel connected with voiceover.
- Iconic images within montage- red bus, establishes setting, Britain. Also helps to highlight key points within the film and sliced montage keeps viewers attention.
