The Lion King - opening scene

   analysis of fim opening- the lion king


Mise-en-scene: costume- there animals no costume

actors- happy facial expression, lots of hugging and bowing

make up- animated animals, no make up

props- the fruit used to christen Simba

setting- daytime African savannah



Editing: fast cuts, invisible editing, I feel this shows how frantic the animal kingdom is.



lighting- animated daytime

Camera: establishing shots, mixed with close ups and extreme close ups to add to the scale of the event and shows the variety of animals there.

Sound- non diagetic: music

diagetic: various animal noises

Ideas

For my group's film opening we have disscussed 2 genres: gangster and action/horror

Personally I'd prefer to do gangster as I feel we can make it look good with whats at our disposal also I'm a big fan of the genre    

Enigma

Enigma is a convention of film openings. Enigma is an unanswered question for example:
In Goodfellas the enigma is whose in the boot of the car and then killed in the opening scene. Its used in film openings I feel to help build suspense and engage the audience

Conventions of film openings

these are:
titles/credit
   
establishing shots
music
setting the tone

film makers logo e.g warner brothers
Enigma

Titles/Credits e.g
Name of the film
Director
Main actors
Producer

I feel one of the best examples is the 1989 version of Batman

intro to my group

My group consists of:
Myself
Pete Fawcett
Jonny Knibbs
and James Quinlan

Brief

Video.
The main task is to create the titles and opening of a new fiction film to last a maximum of 2 minutes.