Opening 2 Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice Opening

Release date: 23 November 2005 (USA)

Genre: Drama, Romance

Director: Joe Wright

Writers: Jane Austen (novel), Deborah Moggach (Screenplay)

Stars: Keira Knightly, Matthew Macfadyen, Brenda Blethyn

Budget: $28,000,000 

Gross: $121,147,947

Production Co: Focus Features, Universal Pictures, Working Title, Studio Canal

Pride and Prejudice starts off with the Universal studios intro. The intro is normal as the universal theme is playing. After that is the Working Title Intro.

The Movie fades in to a nice quite establishing shot of a field and the forest. There is Diegetic sound of birds tweeting. This along with the mist and sunshine tells the audience it is dawn. This shot goes on for quite a while. It’s a time laps because you can see the sun rise. The shot starts 33seconds in and ends at 1:20. In the middle of the shot non-diegetic music starts playing. The music is soft and quit which goes along with the landscape, and tells the audience what genre the movie is. As the shot goes on text appears such as the title and companies. The main tittle is bright and bold; the text fades away slowly which again fits with the genre.

There is a cut to who we presume is the main character. Its medium close up from a low angle. There is some lens flare which backs up the peacefulness. The non-diegetic music keeps playing. As she reads she smiles and bits her finger, this tells the audience how immersed she is in the book and that she is most likely a bookworm. There is another cut to an over the shoulder shot of her reading the book. When she finishes the book she strokes it and sighs.

There is another cut to an establishing shot of her walking over a pond of some sorts. The audience can tell by her costume and location that this is not in our time. There is the diegetic sound of ducks and geese quacking as she walks by. There is a cut to a medium shot of her walking past drying sheets, she also walks past 2 women who are working out sides cleaning the sheets.

The tracking shot continues to focus on her until it stops at 2:06 where the camera goes through a door way. The dolly shot focuses on a woman playing the piano transforming the non-diegetic music in to diegetic music. The shot continuous as it pans to the right over a table of props giving the audience the idea that only women live here.

The camera finds focus back to the main character and an over the shoulder shot shows 2 people arguing. You can hear the diegetic sound of her walking up the steps and a man throwing seeds on the floor. The camera continous to follow her as see walks inside.

Opening 1 Les Miserables

Les Miserables Opening

Release date: 25 December 2012 (USA)

Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance

Director: Tom Hooper

Writers: William Nicholson, Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schonberg, Victor Hugo (Novel)

Stars: Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anna Hathaway

Budget: $61,000,000

Gross: $441,809,770 

Production Co: Universal Pictures, Relativity Media, Working Title, Cameron Mackintosh

Time	Film info
0 -0:18	Image- Universal Intro Sound- Faint non-diegetic sound of drums
0:19 - 0:25	Image- Camack International Intro Sound- Drums in the background getting louder
0:26 - 0:36	Image- Working Title Into Sound- Drums still low but increasing in volume
0:41	Image- Camera under water, water dirty and filled with debre, flag in the water, scratched and dirty suggesting a battle. Sound- Drums sound like they are being played above the water.
0:44	Image- Text giving a small intro, they year is in a big fonts implying the year may change. Camera slowly racing from the water, getting closer to flag. Sound- Drums are intensifying.
0:56	Image- Establishing shot, camera emerges from the water, raining and dark clouds suggesting vulnerability/sadness. Sound- Non-diegetic music starts playing at full volume.
1:09	Image- Birds eye view, very dark and sad. Humans looks like ants compered to ship. Sound- Diegetic waves hitting the ship and bay while non-diegetic music is playing.
1:19	Image- Birds eye view of slaves working. Camera moving closer to the slaves, waves crashing over slaves. Sound- Music still playing. Diegetic waves.
1:32	Image- Medium Long shot of Jean Valjean. Can see his dirty and ripped clothes as well as his long unclean beard. 100ds of slaves in the background, some with bloody and scared faces. Sound- new music starts playing non-diegetecly. Diegetic waves crash over slaves as well as slaves grunting simultaneously.
1:36	Image- POV of a wave hitting a slave. Sound- The wave hitting
1.44	Image- Medium closes up of Jean as he’s pulling the rope. His eyes are looking up. Sound- Non-Diegetic music, Diegetic waves and grunting.
1:45-1:54	Smart editing technic, when Jean is looking up it re directs the audience to a low angle view of Javert. Image- Low angle long shot, camera slowly moving to a medium close up. The background is dark and it’s raining giving the idea he is the antagonist. He is wearing clean blue clothes telling the audience he is important. He is holding a used wooden baton giving the impression he is strict and violent. Sound- Non-Diegetic loud and intense music as well as men grunting, Diegetic wind.
1:55	Image- Medium shot. High angle showing Jean is less powerful then Javert. Shots open with wave clearing. Sound- Non- Diegetic music, Diegetic singing.
1:56-2:33	Continuity shot of Jean looking at Javert and Javert looking at the slaves, as well as a camera focusing on the singers which varies from different slaves. Sound- The non-diegetic music is playing over the slaves singing.
2:36	Out of focus shot looking at slaves working as they sing on.
2:39	Image- Extreme Long shot of slaves pulling in the ship to the harbor. Sound- waves crashing in as they sing
2:51	Image- over the shoulder of Javert looking down at the slaves. He is seen as the dominant, his posture backs this up.
2:54	Camera is looking down at the slaves feet as there chains scrape the floor and there sloppy dirty feet walk over the French flag which is being disrespected.
2:55	Canted camera looking down at the slaves just like they are singing.  Clear Image of a dirty wet French flag.
3:13	Javert disrespects Jean when he tells him to retrieve a flag without any help. You can see on Javerts facial expression he likes his job.
3:28	The non-diegetic music gets very intense when Jean grunts to lift the flag.
4:48	Continuity shots, over the shoulder as Javert and Jean are having their conversation.