White chicks:
In the opening two minutes of the film ‘White Chicks’ from
the very first scene the audience are able to work out that the film is going
to be a comedy. This is because you see a man at the very beginning that is
quite clearly in a disguise and is doing a funny little dance. It is quite
evident that the man is dressed up by the way he is over compensating his ‘accent’.
The audience are able to work out that the film is going to
be based around the two men who are dressed up in disguise as they are the main
focus in the opening scene. The audience are also able to find out that the two
main characters dressed in a disguise in the opening two minutes work for the
FBI and are there to catch out the drug dealers.
The audience are encouraged to ask themselves what the main
story line of this film will be as it is unclear from the beginning. They are
also encouraged to question the relationship between the two main characters in
the film, whether they are best friends, colleagues or if they are even in the
FBI.
They have used diegetic music throughout the opening scene
of this film. They have used the typical kind of music that you would normally here
when visiting a corner shop and fits in well with their fake, disguised, ethnic background. Because of the music that is
used and the way the character is dancing to it at the beginning this automatically
sets a happy and humorous mood.
Throughout the first opening scene they have used a lot of
close up shots and extreme close ups on the characters faces so that the
audience can see who the main characters are in the film and also for them to
see that they are actually dressed up
and not actually who they are. Another shot that is used is a medium shot when
both of the men take off their disguises and take out their FBI badges, this
was a good shot to use because it shows the audience how they have gone from
being funny to being serious and so that the audience could see that they have
just caught out two criminals.
