1ST 5 SHOTS OF FILM 2: Submarine

Director: Richard Ayaode

Year: 2010

Production Budget: 

Domestic Box Office: $467k

UK Box Office: $2.3m
Production Companies: Warp, Film 4 Productions, UK Film Council, Red Hour Productions

Distributors: Studiocanal, The Weinstein Company

BBFC Rating: 15

MPAA Rating: R

Genre: Romantic Comedy

Actors: 

Craig Roberts
Sally Hawkins
Paddy Considine
Yasmin Paige


Box Office (UK, US, World): $5k, $4.5m
UK/US Distributor: Optimum Releasing, The Weinstein Company

SHOT 1
The first shot before this is of some titles (Film 4). This is the opening long shot (of the main protagonist's bedroom) to connote that this is where the protagonist spends most of his time and to show the strangeness and unusualness of the main protagonist.



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SHOT 2

There are lots of posters and pictures in his room to connote the strangeness and madness of the protagonist, that his mind is constantly all over the place (lots of thoughts in his head). The objects in his room are unusual, old fashioned and different to what an ordinary child would have in their room to again connote the strangeness of this character.

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SHOT 3
This is a panning shot of the main protagonist's room and then at the end of the panning shot you finally see the main protagonist. Since he is the first character shown in the film this connotes that he is the main protagonist. The audience can see unusual objects again such as the skeleton and telescope which connotes that the main protagonist is interested in science and nerdy things. This connotes that the main protagonist is a nerd. Since there are many objects in his room this could connote that he spends all/most of his time in his room using all these objects; this could further connote that this character doesn't have many friends and spends most of his time alone. At the end of this shot non-diegetic music starts playing (a tick that goes in time with the shot cuts changing to getting closer on the main protagonist).

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SHOT 4
This is the second shot of the three shots that get closer in on the main protagonist. This shot has framing left, not central framing to connote that this character is strange, unusual and different, so being in central framing would be too normal for this specific character. There is a painting of a submarine to connote the unusualness of this character and to relate with the title of the film (submarine) which could metaphorically connote that the main protagonist feels submerged, just like a submarine so he relates with them. 



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SHOT 5
The shot has got closer and closer to the main protagonist's face and there is left framing again to connote that this character is isolated and strange. The fact that only the character's head is shown connotes his isolation from the world (looking out of the window into the world as if he is isolated) and the strangeness again of this character. 


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