Hannah Montana: The

movieSHANIA STEELE

General Information

As Hannah Montana's popularity begins to take over her life, Miley Stewart, on the urging from her father takes a trip to her hometown of Crowley Corners, Tennessee to get some perspective on what matters in life the

most.

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music and Romance

Budget: $30,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend: £2,030,657 (UK)

Gross: $79,566,871

Production Companies: Walt Disney Pictures, Millar Gough Ink, It’s a Laugh Productions

Director: Peter Chelsom

There are a range of camera shots used in this trailer including:

Close Ups

Over The shoulders

Mid-shots

Long shots

Point of view Shots

Extreme Close Ups

Bird’s eye view

High Angle

Extreme close ups allow to see the subject really close up. In these cases, it is a part of the body

emphasising the importance of these parts of the body. These shots above show that Hannah is getting

ready for a performance on stage with her hidden identity.

Wide shots allow the audience to see the surroundings that the subject is in. This shot shows how she is a

pop star performing on stage.

High Angle

High angle shots make the subject look inferior and that the subject is being looked down upon. It shows

that she is the main focus of the shot

Close-ups

Close ups allow the audience to see the subjects emotion more closely.

Over the shoulder

This shot allows the audience an insight into what the character is seeing from their point of view.

Two shot

Two shots allow the audience to see relationships between characters developing.

Bird’s Eye View Shot

A bird’s eye view shot can make the audience feel like they are observing from above.

Editing

There are approximately 117 edits in this trailer. It is common for film trailers

to have many edits in them because of the amount of storyline and shots

they need to put into the trailer.

There are many types of edits including:

Cuts- This is the most common type of edit. This simply is used to change

one shot to the other.

Dissolves- Dissolves are a more relaxed type of editing. It can signify a

change in time.

Sound

Picture sounds as applying make-up- This shows that she is popular and famous.

Music of hers

American Male Voiceover- This type of voiceover is common in film trailers.

Crash sound of Lily falling town ramp

Crash of glass breaking

Sound of shoe hitting wall

Cymbal sound changing the music 30 secs

Cow sound

Cymbal changing music

Cockrell sound changing music

Cymbal changes music

Sound to change some scenes

Mise en scene

This shot shows black and white shoes. The fact that they are black and white shows that trouble could

be occurring because they are two completely opposite colours creating tension. These colours

foreshadows what will happen next in the trailer.

This shot is an empty shot which emphasises the cow in shot. The green space and blue sky show how she

is in the countryside instead on New York where she expects to be.

Mise en scene

The water shows that she is in a natural environment showing her ‘Natural’ identity. Water can also represent

life and how she is enjoying her ‘primary life’ as who she really is.

The board “I bite” suggests what will happen to him. This could indicate that his personality is that he is stupid

due to him not reading signs.

USP of the film (Unique Selling Point)

The fact that Walt Disney

made the film is important to

be put into the trailer as they

are a major child’s

production company

meaning that parents will

know the film is suitable for

them.

Another USP

The fact that they have mentioned

that 12 new songs are appearing

creates fans of her songs to want to

watch the film to be able to hear

the new songs.

Target Audience

This film is targeted at young girls approximately 8-16. This is because of the

teen pop star storyline which is a dream of many young girls. Also the

element of family in the film would suggest that this film is created for the

younger audience.

I found an interesting article about the target audience of this film on the

internet:

http://www.elpasotimes.com/tiempo/ci_12110023