1. Audience Analysis and Film Openings
By: Christian Nogodula

2. Audiences
In accordance to my analysis, teenagers prefer more action packed, fast paced movies rather than slow dramatic, plot driven ones. Although it would not be a stretch to say they would like to watch movies like these. However, adults from the age of 25 and older seem to care about slow moving, plot heavy, flowing scenes. They care about the characters and the stories they go through.
According to the analysis adults care not of who is in, or who directed the movie. Instead they care more if they know they will like the movie for the story it has behind it. Teenagers on the other hand are heavily influenced as to who is in a movie, or if it references anything they already know. If a movie has intertextual concepts, they will more than likely watch these movies compared to those that don’t.

3. Opening to: Kiss Me Deadly
Medium Shot of a woman’s feet running.
Sound (diegetic) of her panting and her feet pitter
pattering on the ground
Starts at a very dark night w/ upbeat chase (non-diegetic) score
Running for help on a highway with nothing but a coat on
She desperately stand in the middle of the street to get help
Man careens out of the way to avoid hitting her
He helps her
Why is she running? Mysterious
Two shot conversation in the car

4. Opening to: LA Confidential
Starts off with a montage of L.A.
The narration is diegetic, but is not known until
later
It montages on the beauty and the dark recesses of LA
There are people enjoying their days, celebrities, but also gangsters and criminals
The main antagonist is seen enjoying himself at a party
The tone is light, expositional monologue
But the criminals are tense
Criminal mastermind gets arrested
Foreboding narration says there will be something to change the balance
Danny DeVito finishes his story of Hush-Hush magazine

5. Opening to: Blade Runner
Establishing shot of an expanse of a city
The city is spewing fire at the top and
establishes the futuristic city
The (diegetic) sound is coming from the fires of the tower
A flying car passes by
It slowly zooms in and focuses on an eye that is looking at a huge pyramid like building
The building is large
It cuts to a man with his back at us smoking something
It cuts back and zooms into one of the buildings where the man is quietly waiting

6. Openings Conclusion
At first glance these three movies have nothing in common but if one looks further into the story and rhythm these movies are going, they can be seen as crime, dramas, what some would call noir or neo-noir.
Overall the story and scene is laid out and it looks, sounds, and is intense. It shows a sort of dark outlook that which it seems like it will just keep going downhill. However, unlike Kiss me Deadly and Blade Runner, LA Confidential is not like that, it starts off upbeat and happy, but it all leads down to a spiraling decent into madness that the narrator foreshadows.

7. Conclusions Cont’d
The sound is foreboding for the most part, while LA Confidential’s neo-noir feel does break the formula, it still tells a gripping tale. It almost is a false advertisement of itself. In Kiss me Deadly, however, the air of mystery is never revealed until its too late, thus the reason from which the woman was running from is never seen or known. Kiss me Deadly and LA Confidential tells much of the story but Blade Runner seems to want to establish the world first. As a neo-noir film set in a futuristic city, a establishing shot of a city skyline would seem to benefit the viewers the most.
Comparing these three movies would be a great challenge, the Sci-Fi aspect of Blade Runner clashes with the old black and white mystery of Kiss me Deadly, while LA Confidential’s attempt at being less dark or foreboding show a great deal of constraint to get into the action.
Of course, if these openings had one thing in common, it is that the theme is dark and foreboding.

8. Films that Influenced Me
Although the three movies I chose to analyze were Kiss me Deadly, LA Confidential, and Blade Runner, only one of those films actually were an influence on me to make a movie about noir and detectives in general. Kiss me Deadly was the movie that really made this genre great, just researching an old noir classic allowed me to see the movie in my head a little clearer. However, what really influenced me in picking this genre, and topic was the movie Kiss Kiss Bang Bang with Robert Downey Jr. This razor sharp comedy noir really made an impact on me as a film watcher, it took down detective tropes that I thought were standard. RDJ wasn’t quick witted nor was he even a great detective, his whole character was always in the wrong place, in the wrong time. The movie was funny, witty, yet still dark and kept the noir style going. (The only reason why I didn’t do an opening analysis on this was because the opening was short and not good enough to analyze)

9. Film Company that Would Produce my Film
Warner Bros. Pictures have been one of the premiere distributors of noir films since The Maltese Falcon (1941). Not only that but they also distributed films such as Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005), Blade Runner (1982) and LA Confidential (1997). It is safe to say Warner Bros. are fond of the idea of producing a noir or even neo-noir film.