Tuesday, 20 December 2011

opening sequence for legally blonde

the narrative function, it engages the audience. in the opening we are able to feel what the story would be about. we are shown the introduction to the story. we immediately realise that the genre of this film would be a romcom. furthermore, the introduction to the film is done by the compression of time. also, we have 3 different shot from 3 different places. for example, when the girl is cycling outside, then the letter being written on by girls and finally, the girl in the room who we could assume that is the main character. 
for the conventions displayed, the title, the colour theme of pink, the nail and the nail varnish shows the audiene the theme this film would be. it is obviously seen as a feminine film. the curly writing suits well with the theme as its quite 'girly'. 
when the characters are introduced, we realise that the main character is 'Ellie' because we see her getting ready in her room and then we see the letter which says Ellie. All the characters in the opening (house) are female. we are shown the setting (which is in the house) and the different characters. 
the bright day, the mise en scene of the colour pink and the setting in the mansion could be seen in diffferent viewpoints. the music is also the perfect day which shows that everything is perfect in this world. this would bring attention to the audience because we would assume that something bad is going to happen because it would be boring if everything was perfect all the time. 
there are different angles used when taking the opening. there is tracking, for when the girl is on the bike. there is panning when we see the whole setting. there is close up of the different characters and on the letter, and also we see a point of view of the hand. this is seen as a utopia.

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