9. Textual analysis of another opening

9. Textual Analysis of another film opening

 

 

Im an going to do a textual analyisis on the first 1.58 second of the film Juno. Juno is a comedy drama film about a young girl who finds out she is pregnant and deals with this situation in an unusual way. The beginning of the film is quite un usual because its in cartoon style. The first clip we get is a close up of a young womans trainers. eventually this ends up being juno but the fist close up creates some sort of tension and start building up questions on who that is and what is going to happen next. Also on the left side of the clip the tiltes come up in big bold cartoon letters. The next shot is another close up shot of her walking and then again titles come up on the right side of the screen.

 

The Main establishing shot comes 6 seconds into the movie this is when we see the main character Juno and the title of the movie comes up 'juno.' This shot sets the scene and shows us a little bit of a scruphy looking girl walking towards us with in her carton of orange juice in her hand. Shes wearing sneakers with jeans and a red jumper. She doesnt look very special, she looks like an inncent type of girl who doesnt stand out too much.

 

Anothers shot is a upwards tilt shot used to show the scy and the birds flying past all still in cartoon style. Then a mid shot of her face to show the emotion on her face wich seems to be happy and still unaware of the things that are going to happen next. This also introduces the viewers to Juno. The title then appeares next to her face. The then is another mid shot but this time its only of her bottom half of her body and it shows us her causual walk this means that we now know that she is quite a casual person. Titles are appearing as she walks past in the sky.

She contiues walking and there is a tracking shot following her until she finally stops infront of a shop all the cartoon drawings get rubbed out and re drawn again this is a very smart effect and very effective in this situation. Titles still keep on appearing around he. After about 2 seconds standing infront of the shop she crosses the road and we get another close up shot of the carton of orange juice wich she is still carrying around and the camera follows her action of drinking the orange juice. The we get a birds eye view shot when we look down at juno while she looks up at us. I think what the director was trying to achieve was that the camera was looking out of the eye of the birds flying above her. We then have a tilt out of that postion into another tracking shot.