ANALYSIS OF TITLE 3

As part of my opening sequence, to give me an idea of what appears in opening sequences
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I will be looking at three opening sequences 1 which is not of my genre to differentiate the differences of my chosen genre..

NUMBER 3
Romance Comedy

When Harry met Sally...


We get a pastel blue background with retro black font of a production company "Castle Rock Entertainment" in serif writing

The same background continues and writing appears three rows in the middle. the top row off to the side is in small thin writing "in association with" under that is bigger writing saying "Nelson Entertainment" and under that is thin small writing again saying  "presents"

Throughout the scene old 50s music is playing

In the middle left we get 3 rows again of writing. The first row says "A" with thin writing, the middle is bigger thicker writing saying "Rob Reiner" and the bottom row "film"
This highlight what/who's important when looking at a title sequence

Then in the middle left we get thick writing of the name of the leading male actor "Billie Crystal" we still see the same blue background. As this is happening a blue bubble man pops up next to Billie's name.

As the sequence progresses the bottom right corner we get leading actress "Meg Ryan" name pop up following that we get a pink bubble women pop up next to her name.

We then see a very quick fade in of the title "When Harry Met Sally..." and then a swoop from either side of the bubble people. on "When Harry" side was the blue bubble man and on the "Met Sally" side was the pink bubble women. This is on top of the title.

We still see the blue background and get the names of the rest of the actresses/actors, next to there name is more bubble people in different colours..

In the top left corner we get an associated producer "Nora Ephron" and in the middle one blue bubble man and one green bubble man, Then a bunch of black bubble people pop up surrounding the blue and green ones..

As the title sequence is progressing It is telling us a story whilst writing is still going. we see special musical performance and arrangement by "Harry Connick, Jr"

We then see a white board with books written on top next to the blue bubble man and in the bottom we see more of the production's name.

The a pan of books come on and we see the blue bubble person read a book and the we get on the top right Co-Producers "Jeffery Stott, Steve Nicolaides"

As the scene still continues we see the pink bubble person come through from the top right hand corner the bubble person bring's in writing, casting by "Jane Jenkins, CSA, Janet Hirshenson, CSA"

We see a close up on the left hand corner the two pink and blue bubble people, the pink bubble person moving away towards the right corner as this goes we get more blue writing above the blue bubble man. and then above the pink bubble person.

When the pink bubble person is fully to the right writing appears in the middle of both of them of produced by "Rob Reiner, Andrew Sheinman" After the writing disappears the two bubble people move in together and get small and further away and the screen goes and black and the movie scene starts.

During the establishing scene we get white big writing on the bottom of the scene " UNIVERSAl OF CHICAGO, 1977"

(this is shown through a montage of surrounding area, with the same music)

We see a close up of  two people kissing and on the right side more white writing, saying written by "Nora Ephron" this is repeating as they have already said who it has been written by.

As the kissing scene is still going we get a repeat of the directors name "Rob Reiner"

The scene carries on



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