Shot size / angle + camera movement
A close up shot is a camera shot where its gets close (around about a head shot) with almost no background to a object on screen. Close up shots are used extensively in the opening title sequence of Amelie they are used to make the viewer feel close to Amelie. The CU shots are also used to show us that Amelie plays by herself. It is only Amelie that we see in the whole opening sequence and the CU shots make sure we do not see anything else but her its so close on her your attention never moves from her as the camera never moves from her. We never see anyone else this shows us Amelie's lack of friends but shows us that she is still pleased with simple various things she does in life as she is smiling a genuine happy innocent smile.
Character / Performance
A character / performance is a character how Amelie is first introduced to the audience in the beginning opening title sequence as a little girl playing and doing various things. She is hugely important for the beginning title sequence as this shows us who Amelie is and helps us understand her personality. Amelie's character does not say anything but she doesn't need to her silent playing shows us her lack of friends and how her farther and mother do not play with her, but this does not make you sad even though she is by herself her genuine happy smile allows the audience to realize she is perfectly happy playing various things at home by herself. Also this movie is called Amelie and is just about her other character's in this opening would distract away from the purpose of introducing Amelie.
Lighting
The opening to Amelie has a reasonably dull lighting, the colours are quite dull as well not bold distracting bright colours this allows the audience to focus more on Amelie and the things she does rather than have a big distraction of bold colours drawing the eye away from Amelie. The lighting is the same not distracting it has the perfect lighting to see everything but not be distracted by bit being too dark or too over exposed.
Sound / Music
The opening title sequence to Amelie has a piece of music from Yann Tiersen called La Dispute it only plays the second half, It is a solo piece of only piano. Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet chanced upon the largely accordion and piano driven music of Yann Tiersen while driving with his production assistant who put on a CD he hadn't heard before. Greatly impressed, he immediately bought Tiersen's entire catalogue and eventually commissioned him to compose pieces for the film. So this piece of music was made for the sole purpose of beginning in this film. This makes this special because it's meaning was made originally for Amelie's opening title sequence. La Dispute is a gentle piece of music it helps set a innocent happy mood for the film as it its tempo is quite relaxed. The only other sounds you can hear in the opening title sequence of Amelie apart from the La Dispute piece of piano music is diegetic sound you can hear the noises that Amelie makes like when she runs her finger around the glass you can her the music it makes. You can also hear the sounds of her slurping her milkshake and the dominoes falling. This again creates less of a distraction not having loud music or people talking the point of this is so you can really focus on Amelie.
Monday, 28 March 2011
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
Genre / Atmosphere
The opening to the title sequence of Amelie starts with piano music.
The camera then goes to a close up of a yellow background with red letters and a young persons hands re-adjusting the title stating the movie. They then are swapped and its turns to a red background with yellow letters.
It then goes to Amelie as a little girl, It has a close up of her hands wiggling her middle fingers and in bold red letters the title for scenario comes up, the red is very bold. The shot then changes to a extreme close up and a high angle shot of Amelie's mouth and chin a face had been drawn on her chin so when the top of her face had been cut it looked like a face. Then the title for dialogue came up in bold red again.
There then is close up of Amelie's face squishing into a glass window, casting title comes up.
The scene then cuts to a extreme close up of Amelie's ears with cherries hanging over them, the camera slowly draws out to just a close up shot and then cuts to her other ear which has the same Amelie then turns to face the camera and smiles then the costume title comes up.
The camera then cuts to a mid-shot showing Amelie's top and the desk she is standing in front of with dominoes she then pushes the first domino to make all of them fall the camera moves to the right to follow them apart from the music the only thing you can hear is the sound of the dominoes.
Then the camera cuts to Amelie wearing big circle glasses she moves them off and on by wriggling her nose, directer title shows up.
Extreme close up on Amelie's hand a face has been drawn on it so as she moves her hand it looks like its talking. The face was drawn in black and white. The camera comes in closer still on Amelie's hand.
The camera then cuts to a mid shot so you can only see the middle portion of Amelie and a desk with a glass that has a emerald green liquid in it, Amelie runs her finger round the edge of the glass to make a sound.
Then the camera cuts to a close up of a milkshake with a straw in it close up high angle so you can only see a wooden desk and the milkshake with a Amelie's hand around it. You can her the slurping of the drink.
There then is an extreme close up of Amelie's hand as she pulls out a girl paper chain the camera moves out as she does this.
It then comes to a extreme close up of the back of Amelie's head as she claps her hands over her ears. This makes a hollow airy sound.
Then a extreme close up of a high angle shot of Amelie's nose and mouth the top of her face is cut off at this point as she pulls a bit of paper over her mouth.
Then we go to another close up of Amelie pulling glue of her fingers we see a portion of the table the glue bottle and her fingers.
Close up low angle shot of Amelie blowing a bit of paper cut into a spiral shape out. and then she pulls it back up. close up of Amelie's hands spinning a coin. Then we cut to a close up of Amelie with raspberries on her finger tips, she eats them all.
The camera then cuts to Amelie standing the camera moves down lights go bright and a cut to Amelie looking down and moving down she goes out of camera shot. The director's title Jean - Pieere Jeunet comes up and the screen turns white with the red bold title of director still on the the movie continues on.
This creates tone by showing us close ups of a young Amelie all the camera shots are close up so we can get close to Amelie and understand her happy simple pleasure lifestyle. The things Amelie does are simple but they make her smile.
The mood of the opening is happy, Amelie is a sweet innocent character and this gives us a sweet innocent mood. You can tell it's a cheerful happy mood.
Amelie wears a dull yellow musty top during this beginning sequence. Which matches the colour of the wall. which is musty yellow with diamond shapes. The lettering stands out as it is bright red and bold
DRAFT COPY
The camera then goes to a close up of a yellow background with red letters and a young persons hands re-adjusting the title stating the movie. They then are swapped and its turns to a red background with yellow letters.
It then goes to Amelie as a little girl, It has a close up of her hands wiggling her middle fingers and in bold red letters the title for scenario comes up, the red is very bold. The shot then changes to a extreme close up and a high angle shot of Amelie's mouth and chin a face had been drawn on her chin so when the top of her face had been cut it looked like a face. Then the title for dialogue came up in bold red again.
There then is close up of Amelie's face squishing into a glass window, casting title comes up.
The scene then cuts to a extreme close up of Amelie's ears with cherries hanging over them, the camera slowly draws out to just a close up shot and then cuts to her other ear which has the same Amelie then turns to face the camera and smiles then the costume title comes up.
The camera then cuts to a mid-shot showing Amelie's top and the desk she is standing in front of with dominoes she then pushes the first domino to make all of them fall the camera moves to the right to follow them apart from the music the only thing you can hear is the sound of the dominoes.
Then the camera cuts to Amelie wearing big circle glasses she moves them off and on by wriggling her nose, directer title shows up.
Extreme close up on Amelie's hand a face has been drawn on it so as she moves her hand it looks like its talking. The face was drawn in black and white. The camera comes in closer still on Amelie's hand.
The camera then cuts to a mid shot so you can only see the middle portion of Amelie and a desk with a glass that has a emerald green liquid in it, Amelie runs her finger round the edge of the glass to make a sound.
Then the camera cuts to a close up of a milkshake with a straw in it close up high angle so you can only see a wooden desk and the milkshake with a Amelie's hand around it. You can her the slurping of the drink.
There then is an extreme close up of Amelie's hand as she pulls out a girl paper chain the camera moves out as she does this.
It then comes to a extreme close up of the back of Amelie's head as she claps her hands over her ears. This makes a hollow airy sound.
Then a extreme close up of a high angle shot of Amelie's nose and mouth the top of her face is cut off at this point as she pulls a bit of paper over her mouth.
Then we go to another close up of Amelie pulling glue of her fingers we see a portion of the table the glue bottle and her fingers.
Close up low angle shot of Amelie blowing a bit of paper cut into a spiral shape out. and then she pulls it back up. close up of Amelie's hands spinning a coin. Then we cut to a close up of Amelie with raspberries on her finger tips, she eats them all.
The camera then cuts to Amelie standing the camera moves down lights go bright and a cut to Amelie looking down and moving down she goes out of camera shot. The director's title Jean - Pieere Jeunet comes up and the screen turns white with the red bold title of director still on the the movie continues on.
This creates tone by showing us close ups of a young Amelie all the camera shots are close up so we can get close to Amelie and understand her happy simple pleasure lifestyle. The things Amelie does are simple but they make her smile.
The mood of the opening is happy, Amelie is a sweet innocent character and this gives us a sweet innocent mood. You can tell it's a cheerful happy mood.
Amelie wears a dull yellow musty top during this beginning sequence. Which matches the colour of the wall. which is musty yellow with diamond shapes. The lettering stands out as it is bright red and bold
DRAFT COPY
Sunday, 20 March 2011
Reason For Selecting
Tuesday, 15 March 2011
My choice for the opening title sequence
I have chosen to analyze Amelie's opening title sequence for this project. The link to watch this opening on you tube is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiYoNpYb96A :)
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