PRETTY IN PINK
IDENTS
- Only one company ident - Paramount Pictures
- With recent films there are usually more than one ident
TITLES IN ORDER
- PARAMOUNT PICTURES PRESENTS - upper case and sans-serif -
- Black and white connoting seriousness/sophistication/drama genre.
- Polysemic title - sans-serif font with white on black.
- A JOHN HUGHES PRODUCTION - all upper case, sans-serif.
- Expected auteur theory
- usually "Film" and not "Production".
SHOTS
- Exposition shot - narrative enigma. Some degree of context - a working class area (grass growing over pavement, rusty car, broken roads)
- Panning shot showing both sides of the track - Born/from the wrong side of the tracks - One side is a nice area than the other.