Thursday 3 January 2013

Opening Sequence Analysis - Research into Similar Texts

I looked at the film 'Legally Blonde':


  • Legally blonde is a very girlie chick flick film, it is also a romantic comedy.
  • Straight away the film starts up with very girlie upbeat music, this indicates exactly what the genre of the film is.
  • The first shot is an extreme close up of blonde hair and pink credits which is in connotation to girlie things and teenage girls. This scene lets audience know the type of film. 
  • Next you see a card labelled to 'Elle' this tells audience who the main character is and she is clearly important but you do not find out why at this point. We slowly get shown parts of the main character but not all of her at once. You can already imagine what she would look like in whole though as you are given clues and know what you think she would look like. 
  • The music is very girlie, the lyrics 'Its a perfect day' makes the audience think everyday in this house that all these girls are in is 'perfect' and every day there is fun. The girls in the house all look very happy which suggests none of them have any troubles or worries. 
  • The mis en scene has clearly been picked out cleverly, everything is pink, even the envelope which is being passed around. 
  • At the end there is a tracking shot around the main characters room, showing more about her including photos and a homecoming queen sign (shows she is popular) this helps the audience find more about her past, then finally we are shown the main character looking exactly as the audience would have expected to look. 
  • Straight away this film shows the audience what sort of film it is so they will be attracted to it straight away and know its exactly the sort of film they wanted to watch. 

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