Research: Analysis of the Opening of Juno

Our next task was to look deeper into the analysis of the opening of a film called Juno this is what I found:

This shows how she is real and then walks into cartoon drawings, this suggests that the film will be childlike as the image shows she is real but everything else around her is not, this tells the audience she is not really mentally grown up yet. 

The fact that the film is produced by Fox searchlight pictures tells the audience the film is made by a well known company but is indie style, most attracting an adolescent audience. We can also tell this by the way the character is dressed; jumper, jeans and plimsolls suggests that the film is for a younger, more relaxed audience.  

The fact that the cartoon background is in one dull colour and the girl is in colour suggests that she is the main character all the way through the film, as this is what the audience is constantly viewing and being informed about. Also, with regards to mise-en-scene, the fact that she dresses like a tom boy tells the audience about her personality, making the audience believe this isn’t going to be a completely girly film. 

At two points in the opening sequence runners from the college go past in the background wearing yellow. As the main girl is not wearing college clothes or running, this emphasises the fact she is not in college. Also she is carrying a bottle of sunny D which is yellow this shows use of enigma to draw the audience in, why is the girl drinking so much sunny D and not exercising like other people her age? 

As we are only following the one girl on her journey in this opening sequence tells the audience the rest of the film may be in restricted narration as so far the audience can only see what the girl can see. This could mean there is a sense of mystery and there is more likely to be shocking events.