Just like Heaven

Just like Heaven

Just like Heaven is an American romantic comedy featuring Reece Whetherspoon. The film was directed by Mark Waters who also directed Freaky Friday (2003) and Mean Girls (2004) and produced 500 Days of Summer (2009) The beginning of the film starts with the camera coming through the Dreamworks clouds and then carries on through the clouds which represents heaven hence the title "Just like Heaven." There is diegetic sound of the movie soundtrack by Katie Mellua and bright girly colours with the cast and production names. The bright girly colours work well with the soundtrack and the genre of the film because they are sterotypical girly colours. Reece Whetherspoon plays the main female role in a pink dress outfit. The pink symbolizes, feminine, flirtatious and also innocence. The corss dissolves and pans around her suggests a passing in time, and that the character has been there for a long time. Reece Whetherspoon plays the typical female in a RomCom she is pretty, white and blonde which follows conventions of filming. She's a workaholic who works in a hospital enviroment. The dioglue from the toilet scene shows the audience she doesnt have a life outside of work. The other colleuges around her are married or divorced or have children. Outside of the toilet scene the fast tempo music ecomplies the quick, fast paced speed and the rush of the hospital.Her sister is the complete opposite of her, she is a multi-tasking mother. We are told this from the setting of the home. Its messy the mother is rushing around. An high-low angle shot is used between the main character and her boss, this camera angle has been used to show the dominance. The boss has been positioned higher than the main character which shows he has more dominace and power over her. As the main character leaves the hospital it begins to rain. Weathering can forshaowing this that are expected to happen, for example rain and thunder has a negative effect and the sun and warmth has a positive effect. In this case it is raining which gives an insight to the audience that something bad is bound to happen.