Techniques

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.