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Sub-genre

High School Drama

Title Credits

Universal pictures presents and Marv films presents

The producer : Matthew Vaughn

The film title is then shown 'kick ass 2'

It has a little sub heading on the screen referencing the time of day they are talking about.

Now the cast are then credited, Aaron Taylor-Johnson is first to be shown.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

Chloe Grace Moretz

Clark Duke

Morris Chestnut

Donald Faison

John Leguizamo

Jim Carey

August Prew, Garret M. Brown and Ian Glen share the whole frame.

Linda Booth, Robert Emms, Steven Mackintosh and Monica Dolan also share the same frame.

Andy Nyman, Daniel Kaluuya and Tom Wu are in then credited

Lynsy Fonseca, Olga Kurkulina, Yancy Butler

Casted by Reg Poerscout-Edgertson

Production sound mixer Simon Hayes

Hair and Make-up designer Fae Hammond

Costume Designer Sammy Sheldon Differ

Music composed by Henry Jackman and Matthew Margeson

Edited by Eddie Hamilton

Production designer Russell de Rozario

Director of photography Tim Maurice Jones

Associate producer Leonie Mansfield

Co-producer Jane Goldman

Executive Producer Stephen Marks, Claudia Vaughn, Pierre Lagrence and Trevor Duke Moretz

Executive Producer Mark Millar and John S Romita jr

Produced by Adam Bohling, Tarquin Pack and David Reid

Produced by Matthew Vaughn

"Based on the comic book written by Mark Millar and John S. Romita jr"

Screenplay by Jeff Wadlow

Directed by Jeff Wadlow

Type of title sequence

Titles on a moving image

Narrative

Mainstream or Independent

The film is a mainstream movie based on a well-known comic book and it is produced by Matthew Vaughn, he was also the person that had created X-Men: First Class and Stardust

Storylines Introduced

In the film's opening we learn that a young boy called Dave Lisweski is quite bored being retired as a hero so he then begins to train with Hitgirl as he sees her the person who could make him a proper superhero. Also another storyline introduced in the  movie is that Hitgirl also known as Mindy Macready is going to school as a normal human being since her dad died in the prequel of this film. Minutes after her arrieval we see that Mandy is feeling school so she opts to call a taxi and go back to the hideout that her and her dad went to when they were superheroes. The next day Mindy attempts to go school again but then later calls a taxi expectedly, Dave tails her tot taxi and offers to go wherever she's going.

 

The main characters are:

 

Dave Lisweski

Mindy Macready

Chris D'Amico

Detective Marcus Williams

 

 Clark Duke

Social groups introduced to the films opening sequence are young adults that are quite rebellious and also heroic adults represented too.

 

Adult Interactions

In the start of the film the teenagers are quite respectful to adults that are shown in the movie but there isn't really much of them in the movie as it's targeted at older teenagers.

 

Camera

Close up,

Establishing shot

Wide shots

Lots of medium shots

Quite a few group shots at then end of the movie. (beginning of the battle)

Low Angles and High angles

over the shoulder shot

Sound
Dialogue
Non-Digetic and Digetic sounds
Foley Sound
a few voice overs
Editing

Shot reverse shot
Transitions
Match Cuts

Mise En Scene

The key locations used are various rooms in the high school, the streets and also the main characters bedroom. Prison cells are also frequently shown in the movie.

The key props in he film are quite violent weapons such as guns, swords, traders and also blades etc. The props are quite significant to the plot and the movie because it creates a contrast of the good and of the bad people in the film. Furthermore kick-ass uses swords which tells us that he's a character that likes to defend against the enemies.

Lightening is very easy to recognise throughout the movie. The reason why I say this because when the camera is shown on 'Chris Amico' or the limo scene in the film they have a dark lightening to outline something dark is going to happen.