The Hangover is an American comedy film directed by Todd Phillips about a bachelor party in Las Vegas that goes wrong. It stars Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, and Justin Bartha. In the opening scenes, one character is seen getting ready for a wedding while the other three men wake up in a strange hotel room with no memory of the previous night. Visual cues like flowers, wedding dresses, and formal costumes in one scene contrasting with scruffy looks in the other establish that the film will follow the aftermath of a wild bachelor party that has caused problems for the upcoming wedding.

1. THE HANGOVER

2. ABOUT THE HANGOVER
The Hangover is an American film directed by Todd Phillips, who is known for directing comedy
based films, its also written by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. The Hangover was released on June
5, 2009, becoming a critical and commercial success. It was produced by the America company,
Legendary Pictures. It became the tenth highest-grossing film of 2009, with a worldwide gross
of over US$467 million.
SETTING AND CHARACTERS
ACTORS
SOUND AND MUSIC
FONT AND CREDITS
CAMERA ANGLES
MISE-EN-SCENE

3. SETTING AND
CHARACTERS
Setting
We can tell my the setting straight way that its set somewhere sunny and its based around a
wedding because the props they have in the scene of the first two minutes relate to a
wedding, for example- flowers, wedding dress and a women having her hair done.
Later on in the scene, we see another scene with four men stranded in what looks like a
desert. We can tell straight away from the first two minutes that this film is based around
the stag night and a wedding.
Characters
In the first two minutes of the scene we only see two of the main characters who are in
completely different settings and look like completely different characters as one is very
serious and the other doesn't look to bothered. I think you can tell by the way the
characters are acting that this is based around a comedy genre.

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5. SOUND AND MUSIC
DIEGETIC SOUND
•The voices of the characters
• We hear the sound of a phone ringing
• We also hear music fro a radio in the background
NON- DIEGETIC SOUND
The only non-diegetic sound used in the first two minutes of
the scene is the music played. The music played is very
classical and instrumental. The music connotes that the film
is based around the wedding.

6. FONT AND CREDITS
The font at the start of the film is
very classic which also represents
the theme of the wedding. The
colour is also white which is the
main colour at the wedding, it
also represents love and peace.
As soon as we find out that
something bad happens the
colours stays the same but the
writing changes to a more bold
writing which is all in capitals this
shows that the films is going to be
very dramatic

7. CAMERA ANGLES
Establishment Shot – this shows us
the setting and the scene and gives
us an idea of the genre of the film.
We can clearly see from the shot
that the film is based around a
wedding.
Close up – this shot connote that we
can see the emotion and the feelings
of a character. I think in this shot we
can see that the genre of the film is
comedy.
Mid shot – This shows us the
relationships between certain
characters.

8. MISE-EN-SCENE
Lighting – The lighting is natural and by this we can tell that the film is
meant to be realistic and professional.
Props – The props we see in the first two minutes of the film, are
flowers, wedding and bridesmaids dresses, a wedding setting, this
connotes the setting and the film is based around a wedding.
Costumes – The costumes are very formal in one scene in the film two
minutes, where as the other half is very scruffy with cuts on their faces,
this makes us this that they’ve been on there stag night.
Music- This is very classical which relates to the wedding until we find
out that something gone wrong and the music changes in to a more
rocky song which connote that we’re going to see what went wrong.