The Martian analysis

Genre
The films genre is classed as the
following:
Action
Science fiction
Adventure
Fantasy
Drama

By Alec Morris

What happens in The Martian

The film is set near to the end of the year 2035 and they are on a
mission on mars to collect rocks from mars and find out if there's
life form on mars. They are there for 17 days but a sandstorm on
mars forces them to leave mars. On the way to the rocket Mark
Watney is hit by a satellite and the rest of the crew suspects that
Mark is dead. In the next scene you see that he wakes up and no
ones there. He has to survive with almost nothing but finds a way
to grow potatoes. Meanwhile over the course of Mark being on
mars for a month, NASA finds out that Mark is still alive by seeing
the satellite. Mark then finds a way to get off mars but it requires
the crew to get supplies from earth and collect Mark. They then
proceed to pick up Mark from Mars. He travels to the rocket in a
rover but he has to stop every 40km. He arrives to the rocket and
flys to the spaceship and he arrives safely.

Production companies :TSG entertainment

This is show by a man shooting an arrow and the
camera focusing on the arrow and the TSG
entertainments jingle which is a man playing trumpet
and a drum playing aswell

Title screen: TSG entertainment

The camera starts to zoom in on mars. This includes
no soun but this makes it effective.

Distributer: 20th Century Fox

This is shown by a panorama of the
iconic logo of 20th century fox
feuturing the iconic 20th century fox
music

Title screen: The Martian

The camera finishes its zoom and some
quite music starts to play

This is an establishing shot on showing where the

scene will take place. In this scene the music is still
quite but the volume is gradually turning up

This is a medium shot which shows mark collecting

stones on mars. The crew are talking to each other
about what the stones are like and the music is
still playing.

Close up shot of NASA analysing the stones they

have found. The music stops playing and they turn off
Mark watneys radio as hes being annoying.

Close up on emergency warning on the screen. The

warning screen pops up and a warning noise alerts
the crew to go back to base.

Another close up shot but NASA control finds out that

there is a storm on the way. The crew then talk about
NASA upgrading there estimate of how bad the storm
will be

Establishing Shot of the storm closing in on NASA`s

base. The sound of the wind dominates any other
sound in this scene

Medium shot to show NASA analysing the storm

which is heading for the base. They talk about how
strong the wind is and if they have to leave or not.

Long shot on NASA`s team heading over to the rocket

to head back to mars. You hear an annoying siren
which is saying the door is about to open.

Medium shot on NASA opening the door and loads of

mars sand pushes the team back. The leader shouts
3,2,1 GO! Then a wind sound effect blows the Crew
away.

Close up of the captain decides to abort the mission

and head back to earth. Mark is angry with the
decision of leaving mars.

Close up on the air pressure going down to zero to

open the door. A timer sound effect is used.

Mise-en-scene
The set seems to be completely done with green screen
and CGI. This is because it is set on a completely different
planet and also it is set 20 years in the future so it will be
difficult to create the technology for a film. In the second
to the third minute the lighting is bright , probably from a
light , but this is because the scene is on them finding
rocks. After that the scene turns dark as a giant
sandstorm is going to take out everything of its base and
this is made by the CGI storm blocking out the sun. The
costumes and scenery suggests that the film is set on the
moon. The rocket and space suits creates this suggestion.
In the scene there is no suggestion of makeup except for
the girls makeup which is just there everyday makeup.