Film Openings

The film opening am writing about is William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet (1996)


Right at the beginning we see the company ident for '20th Century Fox'. Straight after this we are told the basic storyline of the film by the woman we see gradually getting closer. This makes it feel like it is already drawing the viewer in as the TV screen she appears in becomes bigger. After that we see the city's landscape drawing into a particular statue with the words 'In Fair Verona' flashing on the screen. This sets the scene really well as we see where we are as well as being told. On the top of two of the tallest buildings we also see the words 'Montague' and 'Capulet'. We are told in the beginning that there are 'star cross'd lovers' who take their life but we also see a fair amount of police and what appears to be violence which sets the genre. Then there is the introduction to the main characters where the film freezes on an image of each main relative to Romeo and Juliet and text appears at the side which states their name and relation. The title appears after all of the above conventions and then the film continues.


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