1ST 5 SHOTS OF FILM 1: We Are Your Friends

Director: Max Joseph

Year: 2015

Production Budget: $2m

Domestic Box Office: $3.5m

UK Box Office: $835k

Production Companies: Studiocanal, Working Title, Anton Capital Entertainment, Rat-Pac Dune Entertainment

Distributors: Studiocanal, 

BBFC Rating: 15

MPAA Rating: R

Genre: Romantic Comedy

Actors: 

Zac Efron
Wes Bentley
Emily Ratajkowski

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SHOT 1
The opening shot is a medium close up shot of the male protagonist from behind. Since he is wearing headphones this connotes that he is listening to some sort of music/making music on a computer in front of him. His face is not shown to create narrative enigma.




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SHOT 2
This immediately denotes that this is a DJ software that the male protagonist is looking at on the computer screen. He is changing the pitch/amp length here.

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SHOT 3
These first few scenes connote that the film is going to be about the male protagonist becoming a DJ. This is because in these early opening shots, it is clear that he is only a bedroom DJ who is not famous yet. There is marijuana, a pot of pills, a notebook and a pair of headphones in the corner to connote the that he is in the class E (student) and that he is a young typical teenager (stereotype) with no academic aspirations  but instead wanting to just get into the music industry. 


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SHOT 4
Another shot of the DJ software on the computer screen. Protagonist is adjusting yet another thing on the software (changing shape of frequency wave). 




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SHOT 5








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