Use of extended montages
Top gun has one of the most popular soundtracks in movies. It was released in 1986 by Columbia records along with the film itself. It reached the number 1 spot on the Billboard for top pop albums for five weeks. They include the oscar winning songs 'take my breath away' and 'dangerzone'. The film uses these hit songs to enhance scenes showing different emotions and help them show veiwers how the actors are feeling. The song Danger Zone gets played as non diegetic music when the boys are getting in the plane. The title itself reflects on the scene saying that its dangerous. Also it shows the charactors must be feeling scared as they are in danger. The song 'Take my breath away' gets played when there is a romance scene between the charactors Maverick and Charlie. This songs sets the mood and makes makes it different from most of other scenes that include action. This sound track and film help promote each-other.
Top gun has one of the most popular soundtracks in movies. It was released in 1986 by Columbia records along with the film itself. It reached the number 1 spot on the Billboard for top pop albums for five weeks. They include the oscar winning songs 'take my breath away' and 'dangerzone'. The film uses these hit songs to enhance scenes showing different emotions and help them show veiwers how the actors are feeling. The song Danger Zone gets played as non diegetic music when the boys are getting in the plane. The title itself reflects on the scene saying that its dangerous. Also it shows the charactors must be feeling scared as they are in danger. The song 'Take my breath away' gets played when there is a romance scene between the charactors Maverick and Charlie. This songs sets the mood and makes makes it different from most of other scenes that include action. This sound track and film help promote each-other.
'Post-generic' Filmmaking
Top Gun is a Hybrid genre film, this means it includes a range of different genres in it and appeals to different target audiences. The genres that are indulged in this film are romance, this is because there is romance between two of the main characters Maverick and Charlie. It follows there relationship building up and all there 'ups an downs'. Drama is also a genre in this film as there is loads of different stories happening. Also all the flying is counted as drama and can also be included as an action genre because of all the flying, and shooting as-well.
Design Reflects advertising styles.
Posters and other advertisements for this film are simple but effective as top gun is a high concept film. For example the DVD cover for this film has an image of Maverick and Charlie onw hich are two of the main characters and a plain underneath with the title below them. This is very simple along with the tag line which was ' up there was the best of the best' .
