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
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