Monday 28 September 2009

Case Study of a Film Opening.

The Film opening i will be looking at is Love actually.
This is one of my favourite films of all time and i think that the opening scene actually has a hidden meaning.
The scene starts with someone walking through the airport and on the screen apears,"Universal Pictures and Studiocanal Present"
This then fades out and "A working title Production" appears. This also fades out and "In Association with DNA films" comes onto screen.
You then have about 3 shots of people greeting each other at the airport , Mothers and daughters, Husbands and Wives etc..before hugh grant begins his voice over.
His voice over explains how he feels that everyone at airports come to greet each other with love, he then also comments on the twin towers and how all the messages left were ones of love and not hate. As the voice over is going on you see several shots of relatives and friends greeting each other with hapiness at the airport which relates to what Hugh Grant is saying.
Over all of the clip is a very slow, almost harmonic music which gives a romantic feel to the scene.
This carries on till about 1:02 when the words come up "love actually" in white, then "is" in red and then "all around" in white, this comes up at the same time Hugh Grant says it.
You then see a clip of a group of relatives hugging and the words "is all around" fade out, and the word love changes to the colour red to emphasise the meaning of what Hugh Grant is saying.
The background picture of the family then fades out to leave, on a black background, Love Actually.

Below is the link to the Love Actually opening scene;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMScPVO4rLw

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