Analysis of My Best Friend's Wedding opening sequence

Analysing film opening sequences will help me to understand the different techniques that can be used to convay differnt meanings across. It will help me look at the bad and the good ways film opening sequences can be made.

Genre

By listening to the cheesy almost cringe worthy song, the feeling of comedy is presented to the audience. The females are dressed in bridesmaids dresses with the the main female dressed in a wedding dress giving the audience a romantic feel. Therefore we can deduce the genre of the film is romanic comedy
Narrative

The Main female throws a bouquets of flowers over her shoulders and to the surprise of her friends manages to catch them. This connotes feelings of a failed marriage that turns into a second marriage with the man she truly loves.

Character

The four females in the clip connates there being four main female characters of the film with the storyine revolving around the one wearing the wedding dress. The wedding dress suggests that there will be a main groom in the film.

Atmosphere

The red background suggests a passionate atmosphere and the dancing and singing creates a jolly, happy atmospheric feeling.

Themes

The wedding dresses connotes very strongly themes of marrige in the film. The bride catching the flowers she throws suggests a theme of love and maybe following her heart over her head.

SettingThe style of the wedding dresses, hair and the titles font has connitations of an old vintage setting. The wedding dresses connotes a wedding setting.

Sound

The old fasioned, catchy song had connitations of comedy and a retro feel. The song suggested the film was about how to keep a man happy.

Titles

The titles were in the font of a wedding invitation letter having strong connitations of a wedding film.

The titles were not intergrated.

Evaluation of the film opening sequence:

I found the opening sequence connatated the themes behind the film in a very good way. There was no doubt in my mind about what the film was about. The only thing I didn't like was the non-intergrated titles. They didn't have a negative effect on the audience but didn't make the film seem clever.

You can find the opening sequence of My Best Friends Wedding below