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.
