Textual Analysis of John Q

At the start of this film the very first shot establishes the setting which is a long never ending road in the mountains, the shot which is used is a very long shot to to give the audience a feel of where they are. During the first three minuites there are not many generic conventions to give the audience a better understanding of what the genre is. The narrative for the opening is a BMW car which a a upper class car which tells us that the person is rich and upper class, it then shows an over the shoulder shot of the woman driving and the lorry infront this ins these to things together telling the audience something might happen. The woman drinving tries over taking the lorry, however, on the otherside of the road another lorry come and as she overtakes she is just to about to pullin to over take the lorry when the other lorry clips the back of her BMW which spins out of control and crashes into the other lorry.
From when the woman goes to over take the lorry their is tension building and when she crashes thats the highest point of tension where the audience is most engaged, this crash connotates that the film is a action film because of the impact and tension of the crash links to action.
The representation of the woman is very upper class and posh, maybe some what snobby, when the shot of the over the shoulder appears we notice that the woman is wearing a pure white turtle neck which signifies that she is pure and innocent because of the whitness and also their is no flesh showing she is covered up to the neck also showing she is a very Maddona like figure which is associated with Laura Mulvey's theory on the maddona or whore. She is also wearing white diamonds which also signifies that she is upper class and posh.
The lighting throughout these three minuites are all natural and are not artificial. Furthermore, their is background music played through these three minuites until the car crash incident, its classical opera to create a soothing at calm atmosphere also this links with the main charatcer what type of person she is, the sound is a non-digetic sound.