TEEN5: The Breakfast Club

WHAT I ENDED UP APPLYING:

• The school setting
• The cloak of Bender

This is not an image from the film
, as typical

The Breakfast Club

John Hughes, 1985

Length: 04'55

LEAD ACTORS: All members of the Brat Pack,
GENRE: Teen coming-of-age

PRODUCTION COMPANIES: A&M Films
                                                              Channel Productions
DISTRIBUTOR: Universal Pictures

CRITICAL KUDOS: 
Quote from Wiki:

The film received high critical acclaim. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an 89% approval rating based on 56 reviews with a critical consensus that states "The Breakfast Club is a warm, insightful, and very funny look into the inner lives of teenagers".^[26] Review aggregator Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 62% based on 11 reviews from mainstream critics, considered to be "generally favorable reviews".^[27]

IDENTS:
Universal ident with an audio bridge., lasts for 16 seconds.
A&M Films are a subsidiary of A&M Records, like Warp, they mainly now work in Home Video, (now known as straight to DVD) for which they have a video logo.

TITLES:
We go from the idents to titles with a fade in and out.

AN A&M FILMS PRODUCTION
A JOHN HUGHES FILM
THE BREAKFAST CLUB

Not quite conventional, however might often be seen with ensemble casts (though there are films with much larger ones, like L.A. Crash), is the cast to be listed in alphabetical order of the surname:
EMILIO ESTEVEZ
ANTHONY MICHAEL HALL
JOHN KAPELOS 
JUDD NELSON


THE OPENING SHOT:
Establishing shot, doing the computation test, it might have been an alternative to have all the shots inside the school come before that extreme longshot of the school entrance 

GENRE SIGNIFIERS:
School setting.
The teenagers are clearly signified as the main characters in contrast to their parents, we don't meet the teacher yet, the antagonist, so we get a classic binary opposite between the young and the old.

DIEGETIC VS NON-DIEGETIC SOUND:
We first have the first song from the original soundtrack, Don't You (Forget 

OST
Released by A&M Records, another example of horizontal integration.

TRANSITION TO MAIN FILM:
The end of the opening track from the OST.