Media Studies summer task
What are the similarities/differences
between two of the clips?
By Connor Pink
The two clips I have chosen to compare are the Casino Royale
opening scenes and the LA Noire title sequence. I picked these two clips
because they have a good mixture of similarities and difference’s to analyse.
The genre
for both Casino Royale and La Noire is in some ways the same but the way the
genre has been used has made them very different. The genre for both Casino
Royale and La Noire is action adventure and both are in 3rd person.
The way they seem different is Casino Royale seems to be a lot more action
adventure than La Noire. This is because the main character of Casino Royale,
James Bond an English international spy seems to always be traveling the world
and getting into a lot of fights to track down and stop his enemy, whereas in
La Noire the main character, Officer Cole Phelps, a fairly new member of the los Angeles police
department only stays where the game is set in La and doesn’t seem to get into
many action fights because the game is mainly trying to solve crimes by finding
clues and interrogating suspects.
The colours they have used on the Casino Royal opening
scenes is black and white, the way they have used the colour and the lighting
makes certain parts of the scene stand out, for example this screenshot shows
how the lighting is making James bonds face stand out from the black of the
background to draw the viewers’ attention to his face.
Whereas in La Noire they have used a lot of bright colours
to make everything look very eye catching, it also represents the time in which
the game is set, in 1947 they would of used bright colours to symbolise winning
the war and to show that they are no longer in a dark time, they also would
have used bright colours to celebrate.
In the Casino Royale opening scenes there are two main
costumes used, a suit and tie and a very typical cricket game audience costume
of a shirt/t-shirt with jeans and some people wearing hats. The use of this
clothing suggests that these 2 scenes are very different. The scene involving
the suit and tie suggests that it is a very formal scene where the characters
are going to be discussing business, where in the other scene the costume
suggests that it is a un-formal scene where the audience is just there to have fun and it is going to
be a less serious scene.
In La Noire the costumes used are similar to Casino Royal
for formal occasions such as a press conference they are wearing shirts and
ties and smart trousers to appear that they are smart and there for business.
Also the characters are wearing casual clothing for an event such as a trip to
the theatre/movies because they are there to have fun, not to do business or be
serious.
The narrative of Casino Royale is very different to how the
story is told in La Noire. The opening scenes of Casino Royale tells the
viewers the plot by using brief scenes of dialog and action, which alternate
between each other to work together to tell a big amount of the plot in a small
period of time. Whereas in La Noire they have gradually tried to involve the
viewer into the plot so they only learn a little bit of the story at a time
instead of unloading a massive amount of story on the viewer at one time.
I
personally think that the way the plot is built up has been done better in La
Noire because I believe that it makes the viewer’s feel more attached to the
characters, whereas in Casino Royale it may take longer to feel an emotional
connection with the characters, it helps
improve the level of action which I believe most James Bond fans would rather
have because they watch it more for the action than the story.
