Yours, Mine and Ours Opening two minutes

Yours, Mine and Ours (2005)

Camera Shots and Angles:

The film starts with a close up of the male actor, Dennis Quaid, blowing a whistle, this suggests to the audience that this character is that main character and plays a very important role in the films. The next shot roles down the father’s body and then focuses close up on his young sons face. This shocks the audience as they expect the man to be working on a military camp with the language and clothes that he is wearing. The director uses an over the shoulder high angle shot when the father is talking to his children so he appears higher up than them. This suggests that the father is superior as he is much larger in the fame.

Sound:

The film starts with a very upbeat tempo which from the get go implies it is going to be a comical film that you are able to watch with all members of the family. As he is blowing a whistle in a set rhyme it illustrates him as being very controlling and wanting everything perfect. When he finishes whistle blowing he starts shouting ‘Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go’ which may imply to the audience that he is working on a military camp where discipline is very important. . As his son, Ethan, calls him sir it connotes the father as being very respected by his children and his children understand that he is the one in charge. This representation is further elaborated as his children respond to him in a very structured fashion.

Mise-en-scene:

The father is dressed very smart wearing a uniform which would further imply to the audience that he is working in a military style. Also as he is holding a clipboard and pen it suggests that he is controlling and likes to do everything in an ordered fashion. All of his children are dressed similarly to him illustrating the fact that they are a very ordered family and plan what they are doing, including this usually stressful time of moving house.  This film is set in a New England kind of American neighbourhood representing the fact that they are just a normal family despite the fact that there is so many of them.