Analysing an opening sequence of a film.
The film sequence I have decided to analyse is Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging. I chose this particular film because I think it has a lot of camera shots and angles throughout. I analysed the opening titles.
Camera shots
It starts off with the main character walking down the road with the camera looking at her dad driving so all you can see of her is shoulders to middle; through the driver’s window. This shot is called a two shot because there are two people in the shot, even though you can’t see her face.
As it moves on, she enters a house where a fancy dress party is happening and as soon as she walks in, the other characters perform a reaction shot because of what she is wearing.
She walks through the room on a medium shot, this way you can see her reaction as well as the people around her’s reaction.
When she is by her friends there is a mixed range of shots: over shoulder – when there is a disagreement between the friends and then there is a close up when the main character gets upset. She runs out of the house and it flashes from a medium to long to extreme long shot, as she runs the whole way home.
Sound
There isn’t really a lot of sound, apart from when she is running home and as she is doing so, a song is played. There are the odd sound effects like people talking and laughing, or cars honking. Also the setting as she is running home is a seaside so you occasionally hear bird noises or waves etc.
Mise - en –Scene
The setting of the opening, is a row of houses, this is when she is walking along side the car. The lighting for this scene is natural, because it was outside, although there may have been a bit of editing because the weather might have been bad.
The setting of the party is a room in a house. There are people sat on sofa’s/ stood up in fancy dress; which means there would be a multitude of different costumes, there is food and drink on tables so the lighting could be either artificial or natural depending on if there was a light on. It wasn’t very clear.
As she is running home along Eastbourne pier in an olive costume, there are old people sat, staring and laughing at her on benches. The lighting is bright and sunny therefore natural.
Editing
I think throughout the entire film there would have been editing, because the weather wouldn’t have always been bright so they might of edited colour into the sky.
At the end of the titles there is a shot where Georgia (main character) storms off to her room upset, and it flashes back and forth to her dad clearing up the stamped-on olive costume. This is called parallel editing.
I also think that there is a lot of continuity (invisible) editing because the title sequence is very linked, there is no obvious editing done, that you can immediately see of.
In conclusion I think that the range of techniques used in this film sequence, really interlinks well with each other, therefore creating a smooth, straight run through of the opening titles.
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