The film starts straight into the action with the company’s logo and no other credits. Underneath this is non-diegetic music in the form of an upbeat song. This gets us ready and loosened up for the film and at the same time reflects the genre of the film, telling us that this isn’t a serious film and will probably be a comedy. Next scene uses a graphic match where Dylan, the male protagonist of the film, reaches out and moves the logo as if it was a pop up on his computer. This helps to transition into the film and show us that he clearly works with computers, possibly a blogger. It also makes the credits part of the film rather than seeming separate, which is what happens more usually. We would liek to work at least one of our credits into the film in this way, and have an idea to make the title seem part of the film.
The camera then pans around and we see he is presenting in front of people, this helps us understand that he is the boss at his work. The mise-en-scene of the location of where he works is a non-traditional room, exactly opposite to a traditional office, with bikes on the wall, big letters plus a dog on the table suggesting that his job isn’t a serious one and he’s allowed to have fun with it. Also the use of warm orange lighting creates a comfy feeling with the surroundings. Next we see his employee put up a photo of a half-naked lady on the screen and Dylan makes a joke about it even referring to her “Boobies” this suggests that he’s a funny and even immature guy who’s very likeable. After this we see a P.O.V shot from the employees position it is a low angle looking up showing that Dylan has a higher status to his work mates.
The next scene we see is Dylan getting a phone call. The director uses quick cuts from Dylan to Jamie to make it seem they are having the conversation. There is the use of close ups of both the characters faces while they are speaking this is used so all concentration is on them and what they are saying.
Next we see a long shot establishing the location of where Jamie is which happens to be in front of a cinema. They both then finish the phone call and the camera swings round Jamie’s head, the audience are expecting to see Dylan but in fact it’s another man, Jamie’s real boyfriend, while Dylan was actually on the phone with his girlfriend. The location of Dylan with his girlfriend is in front of a concert. In the background we have diegetic sound of the singer of the concert and also sound perspective because the characters are outside the building and the singer’s voice is quite and muffled. These next two scenes which are edited together so that Dylan and Jamie speak after each other even though they are not speaking to each other this hints that they may get together later on in the film. The final scene of the first two minutes is of Dylan’s and Jamie’s partners breaking up with them. Even though this is normally seen as an emotional situation there is a use of non-diegetic music which is very upbeat and happy which is an ironic juxtaposition to what is happening on screen. This helps as well as the dialogue which is very humorous to make this scene funny and not sad, tying in with the comedic nature of the film.
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