Audience and Institution
- Title of Film: Drive
- Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
- Year of Release/Release Date: 23rd September 2011 (UK)
- Certificate: 18
- Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 74 wins & 119 nominations.
- Under what genre do they classify the film? Crime, Drama
- Which institution produced the film? Bold Films
- Which institution released the film? FilmDistrict
- How much money did they gross? $35,054,909
- Who was their primary (and secondary) audience? Male audience, mainly young adults
What title comes first? Why?
The title that comes first is “Ryan Gosling”. He is a very famous actor and acts as the main character in the film. His name is used to open the film as he is well known so it instantly attracts a big audience.
What font style and colour is used?
The font is in pink symbolising compassion, nurturing and love. This implies that there is a romance in the film. Pink also symbolises energy and anger. The font looks elaborate foreshadowing that a lot happens in the film.
What is the size of the font? Where is the text placed in the shot? Why?
The size of the font is the same throughout part from the title of the film “Drive.” Most of the text is placed in either on the left or right side but the most important titles such as the main actor, director and producers.
Order of Titles
- Ryan Gosling
- Drive
- Carey Mulligan
- Bryan Cranston
- Christina Hendricks
- Ron Perlman
- with Oscar Isaac
- and Albert Brooks
- casting by Mindy Masin C.S.A
- costume designer Erin Benach
- music by Cliff Martinez
- production designer Beth Mickle
- edited by Mat Newman
- direction of photography Newton Thomas Sigel, A.S.C
- executive producers Bill Lischack, Linda McDonough, Peter Schlessel
- executive producers David Lancaster, Gary Michael Walters, Jeffrey Stott
- produced by Marc Platt, Adam Siegel, John Palermo
- produced by Gigi Pritzker, Michel Litvak
- based on the book by James Sallis
- screenplay by Hossein Amini
- directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
What effects or transitions are used? Why?
A transition is used at it switches from the shot of the city to a shot of Ryan Gosling; it fades. Also, most of the credits fade in and out.
Camerawork
- The camera pans left on a city, setting the scene and showing it is set in USA.
- It then fades into a low angle shot of Ryan Gosling showing he’s powerful.
- An over the shoulder shot is then used as he starts to drive.
- A point of view shot is then shown, putting the audience in his shoes.
- A mid shot is used of Ryan gosling showing who he is.
- A high angle shot is used showing the city and the amount of cars on the road, this is also a long shot.
Mise-en-scene
- Costumes- Gosling wears a leather jacket and the women he walks past in the opening wears her work clothing, being a red jumper and white shirt (working at the cinema). He also wears leather gloves.
- Props- He keeps a toothpick in his mouth, uses a phone and a bag is also used as another prop.
- Lighting- The lighting is constantly dark and Ryan Gosling’s face is dark, indicating that he doesn’t want to be identified.
- Location- The location is done in a studio but the setting of the film is in the USA.
Soundtrack
- Diegetic- Dialogue- “I’ll give you a 5 minute window.” There is the sound of him shutting the door, flicking the light, car wheels screeching and the sound of wind as other cars pass by.
- Non-diegetic- The music is composed with drums and an electric guitar, it is a song.
Editing
- Editing is used to make the background blurry when Gosling is driving the car.
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