Genre Research: Bridget Jones's Diary: Edge of Reason

Bridget Jones's Diary: Edge of Reason

Sharon Maguire, 2001 (Rom-Com, 15)

Produced by: Working Title/Studio Canal/Universal Pictures/Miramax Films

Distributed by: Universal Studios

Box Office: £35M($40M in US)

Trailer, Wikipedia

Rotten Tomatoes: 27%

Length of Opening: 6:30 mins. until end of titles, story has been set up by 10:05 mins.

Synopsis:

The second installment of the Bridget Jones series. his film continues 4 weeks after the first film. It focuses upon the continuing relationship between Bridget and Mark Darcy, but Bridget is already feeling uncomfortable over it.

Universal's Ident

Idents & Titles:

There are 4 idents, one for each of the production companies, Each features it's own theme or no sound at all, aside from working title's which has an audio bridge of non-diegetic music. We start with Universal, as they are the distributors and also have most likely inversted the most money out of the production companies. The final ident comes from Working Title, Most likely because it is a subsidiary to Universal.

First title, ordered (most likley)
by monetary input

The first title to come onto screen is "Universal Pictures and Studio Canal and Miramax Films present" The Company names have been made bigger and are written in a serif font, almost as though it has been written by hand. The rest is written in all caps, and sans-serif. 

The way the main 3 cast-member's
names came onto screen.

We then have the opening scene, which will be discussed later. In the next scene we get the 3 main cast members names, these come onto screen as though written out by a pen, they last about 3 seconds.  Over the next scene the remainder of the main cast's names are shown, along with important crew members, they fade in and out, and are as follows:

BRIDGET JONES: the Edge of Reason
Jim Broadbent
Gemma Jones
Jacinda Barrett
James Callis-Shirley Henderson-Sally Phillips (These were presented over lines, each hyphen represents the start of the next line)
Neal Pearson-Jessica Stevenson
CASTING BY Michelle Guish
HAIR AND MAKE UP DESIGNER Graham Johnston
COSTUME DESIGNER Jany Temime
MUSIC BY Harry Gregson-Williams
MUSIC SUPERVISOR Nick Angel
PRODUCTION DESIGNER Gemma Jackson
(There was a pause here while Bridget Jones, having parachuted through out these credits, lands)
EDITOR Greg Hayden
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Adrian Biddle BSC
LINE PRODUCER Bernard Bellew
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Debra Hayward-Liza Chasin

Director's name

BASED ON THE NOVEL BY Helen Fielding
SCREENPLAY BY Andrew Davies AND-Helen Fielding AND-Richard Curtis AND- Adam Brooks
PRODUCED BY Tim Bevan-Eric Fellner-Jonathan Cavendish
DIRECTED BY Beeban Kidron (Stylised with an underline at the end of the name)