The Holiday: Opening film analysis

       The film starts with a medium two shot of two young people on screen kissing with happy non-diagetic music in the background adding emotion to the scene indicating to the audience that the film is going to be about romance. The camera slowly zooms and we see that jack black a character in this film is the person making the music. This quite comedic way of starting to a film indicates that the film is a romantic comedy. This is confirmed when the non-diagetic soft voice of a female start talking over the clip which is quite a typical way of a romantic comedy starting there films.

   As the scene changes the title is shown in the left hand  side of the screen(the first third), this makes it stand out more as we normally look at thing from left to right. The title is in white capital letters as are all the other title such as actors, directors and film makers names. They have chosen to use white letters as it connotes innocence, purity and is often used along with the colour red for romantic comedies.

    Many of the shot types used in this opening scene are medium shots and close ups to show the emotion on each characters face. there is one establishing of fancy car being driven down the road and the audience get to set in a city, quite typical of a romantic comedy.

   We see different clips of different types of love as the non-diagetic sound of the narrator tells the audience which type of love each clip represents. Until finally a shot of a women sitting in an office on her own, the audience are unable to see her face this creates some enigmas in the audience is she the women who has been narrating so far.