Hanna (2011)

'A 16-year-old who was raised by her father to be the perfect assassin is dispatched on a mission across Europe, tracked by a ruthless intelligence agent and her operatives.'


Director: Joe white- A male director but he is British, which gives slight relevance to me and my film. 


Main girl: Saoirse Una Ronan- She is around the same age as Molly Hemsley who is my main actor; Saoirse has been in a few well known films such as 'The lovely bones', 'Atonement' and ' The Way Back' so she is a semi well known actress so people are familiar with her so possibly likely to watch 'Hanna'. She is very like my protagonist in her looks, blonde hair, blue eyes, quite small in stature, teenager and also a girl. It is quite rare for a girl to be a main character and the film to be a success. This gives a lot of hope for my film to do well in the film industry as a very similar actress has been used as a lead role and although this film didn't do that well in the UK or the USA it did rather well in the rest Europe, so possibly this sort of film isn't what the British Film Industry is looking for.

 I watched the trailer on IMDb, I think this looked really edgy and high budget in comparison to my film. I think that my film differs with this in the fact that my main protagonist in the beginning kind of forms the 'princess' stereotype role, and needs to be saved but, in the end, no-one needs to save her. She can do it all alone. 

I then watched the opening sequence of this film. I really like the fact it didn't need music to bring me into the film as the music only lasted for 7 seconds. I like this  idea and may use it for my film. This would really benefit me as we don't have the rights to any well know current songs, I'm not musically talented so we cannot create our own song, unless we get a friend to write us some music which is our only real option other than going on a website with unprotected songs. I like the way that they highlighted the fact that this is set in  a natural environment with only the girl and the animal around by using diegetic sound. They didn't use many different types of camera shots in the opening just CU, X-CU, LS, panning and tracking. I plan on using these shots and possibly more, such as X-LS and low and high angle shots; I liked the fact there was very little dialogue, I thought this was quite good for an opening as it allowed you as an audience member to focus on the image and the scene before you really know the character, it also adds an element of mystery to the characters; I think I'm going to follow the structure of the opening of Hanna due to the fact it really interested me as an audience member, and it's of the same genre with a female protagonist. 

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