Monday 1 December 2014

Opening Sequence - Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone


 - The producers of the film are the Warner Brothers

- The music sets the genre; An epic fantasy adventure.

- Owl = Iconography for later on in the movie series

- Establishing shot  to set the scene- a dark place = mystery & tension

- Albus Dumbledore = Stereotypical wizard (Mise-En-Scene) to indicate that this movie is going to be based around witches and wizards. (Also, introduction to our first character = he is very significant = creating enigma "Who is he?")

- Slower cutting of the first look at 'wizardry action' to (1) give the audience the time to take in that he is actually a wizard, rather than just assuming that he is an old man going trick or treating (for example) and (2) to give the sense that the action is taking place slowly.

- Introduction to both significant wizard characters and their status; Professor McGonagall and Albus Dumbledore. From the dialogue, you can see that McGonagall is the follower and Dumbledore is the leader because he knows all the answers to her questions.

- Hagrid: Low angle suggests that he is big in size (not status- his size actually contrasts status- although he is the biggest, he has the lowest status out of all three of them)

- Enigma about Harry

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