The document provides an overview and analysis of the 2010 romantic film "Letters to Juliet". It describes the film's plot about a young American woman who travels to Verona, Italy and discovers letters to Juliet seeking love advice. She responds to a decades-old letter and inspires its author to travel to Italy to find her long-lost soulmate. The document then analyzes elements of the film like its music, characters, costumes, lighting, camerawork and sound design.

1. By: Khem
Slawson

2. About the film
• Letters To Juliet is an enchanting story about love -- of
encountering new sparks and rekindling old flames. When a
young American, Sophie (Amanda Seyfried), travels to
Verona, Italy -- the romantic city where Romeo first met
Juliet -- she meets a group of volunteers who responds to
letters written to Juliet seeking advice about love. Sophie
finds and responds to a letter that has been lost for 50 years,
which inspires its author Claire (Vanessa Redgrave) to travel
to Italy to find her, her long-lost soul mate. Together, the two
women embark on an adventure that will change their lives
forever -- a journey filled with laughter and companionship,
discoveries about themselves and the meaning of true love.

3. Film Opening Conventions:
• The romantic, cheerful music reflects the mood and the genre
• Enigma – which makes us think will Claire find her lost long soul mate, and will
Sophie also find her true love?
• Credits
• Establishing shot which sets the scene
• Introducing the protagonist character

4. Mise-En-Scene
• Costume: casual everyday clothing this is to show her normal life.The
protagonist was wearing white blouse top at the start of the film which
symbolises her innocence and purity.
• Actors:
• - a young female protagonist called Sophie Hall, she works as a fact
checker in New York.
• - 50 year old woman called Claire, she is kind and close friends with
Sophie.
• - Claire’s grandson called Charlie Wyman, he is grumpy and unpleasant
but he has a good heart.
• Make up: the female protagonist has got a little bit of make up on to
make her even more prettier
• Props: the book that she was carrying makes us think what it was?, the
bag and the mobile phone.
• Setting: it was set in a city where she was walking down the lane

5. Editing
• Dissolve to show different pictures of a two lovers which
reflects the type of genre.
• Jump cut from establishing shot of the city into the long shot
of buildings to show us where the city was set.

6. Lighting
• Natural key
lighting as its set
in the daytime.
This is to show
realism.

7. Camera
• Establishing shot this is to show the whole city
• Tracking shot as she was walking down the alleyway
while talking to someone on the phone.
• Panning shot to show the protagonist’s face.
• Mid shot from the back side to front side of the
protagonist to focus on her face more.
• Close up shot to show her facial expression as she was
talking to someone on the phone.
• Long shot of the building to show the it more clearly
• Tilting from the top of the buildings down to the
ground.

9. Sound
• Non diagetic - the love, happy, cheerful song sets the tone
for the whole film.
• Diagetic: the sound of the cars, the protagonist talking to
someone on the phone, the mobile phone ringing, people
talking.