The establishing shot of the film 'The Hangover', is a medium shot of a lady at her mirror, with what seems to be her parents on the sofa behind her. The focus pull is the lady who gets a phone call, whereas the other people in the background her blurred out. This suggests that she is more important than anybody else in the scene as the focus pull is her. As she is at the front of the shot it allows the audience to see her reactions to the phone call she has received. This suggest that the lady is panicking and due to the use of white clothing, it suggest ti is her wedding day, which makes the women of the audience especially sorry for her.
Having quick cut between characters; from the lady getting all pampered, to Bradley Cooper in what looks like the middle of nowhere with cuts and brusies, shows that they are firstly in two different location. Also having this contrasts shows how big the problem is as it is the wedding day of this lady and the guys are in a complete random place. Having these quick editing cuts increases the effect of panic as they keep jumping from the lady to the man. As you can see Bradley Cooper is the focus pull of this shot as he is the one at the front of the shot, which suggests that he is an important character to the storyline. However the people in the background of are blurred but are still present in the shot, which suggests that even though they are blurred they are still important to the storyline of the film. How Bradley Cooper's character is position the audience are made to look behind him as well, which as the film is a comedy, this may lead to something funny occurring behind his back.
The next shot is a close up of the lady's face. This is effective because it allows the audience to see how angry and panicked she is as her expressions can be seen clearly on the screen.
At eleven seconds of the clip, the length of the shot is the longest out of all them so far. This suggest that this shot has more importance due to the length of it; however it adds the affect that Bradley Cooper's character 'Phil', is struggling on what to say, which makes the audience eager to know what is going on and where they are. The use of dialogue in this shot is minimal which makes the audience want to know and watch more to find out what happens and how they 'fucked up'.
The next shot would be classed as a medium shot, as they it is the waist up of the lady character. This shot allows the audience to see where she is, which seems to be a wedding salon, implying she is preparing for her big day. The use of having lots of expensive items in the background suggests that they may be a fairl;y well off family. Having the lady based in a wedding salon allows the female audience relate to the character as they know the feeling and stress which occurs during this time.
The use of quick editing cuts again adds tension and intrigues the audience, as they cuts from Phil saying ' We lost Doug' to the lady saying 'WHAT!?' back to a side shot of Phil. The side shot of Phil allows the audience to see every aspect of his character and automatically implies he is definitely a main character in this production of film.
Having the camera move to the eyeline of the what Phil is looking at in the sky aloows the audience to feel part of the film and gives them an insight of what and where the location of the hopeless stags are. This shot involves the title of the film to fade on in red bold font.
When the title has faded on, background music begins, signalling the opening scene is over but also creates an effect of the wild west due to the instruments used. The used of the western styled music suggest that they are in the middle of no where, for example like the dessert, but creates an image of there being some kind of danger within the film. But the question is, are they going to make it back to the wedding with or without their friend Doug?
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