Conventions of an opening sequence juno

Camera angleThere is a medium shot on Juno’s face. This captures her facial expression.

SoundThe sound track starts at this very second, the sound is non-diegetic in this shot.

Editing techniqueThe shot is one continuous shot, but after there is a cut.

LightingThe lighting is quite high key. This is because it is a coming of age film. It is meant to be quite a happy film, so the lighting wont be low key.

Camera angleThere is a long shot on Juno and you can see runners running past her. The long shot is used to put them in the frame.

SoundThere is the soundtrack in there background. This is non-diegetic sound and there are footsteps from the runners. This is diegetic sound.

Editing techniquesThis again is one continuous shot. There is no editing techniques in this shot.

LightingThe lighting is high key lighting. This can be expected as it is a coming of age film.

Camera angleThere is a long shot which shows a small part of the street. This does fade into animation.

SoundThe only sound is the Juno theme song which is non diegetic.

Editing techniquesThe picture fades form a realistic street to a cartoon or animated strip.

TextOn the screen it says “searchlight pictures presents”. Text on the screen is a convention of an opening sequence.

LightingThe lighting n the real street is high key, however most of the shot is cartoony so you cant say what the lighting is.

Camera angleThere is a medium shot looking at Juno, she looks half animated but not completely animated.

SoundAgain, the sound is just the theme tune, which is non-diegetic.

Editing technique All of this shot is animated, which isn't really a technique and you cant really apply a technique to this.

TextThere is text on the screen which says “Juno”. This the name of the film. This s a convention of opening sequence.

Lighting This shot is animated so you cant apply lighting to it.

Camera angleThe camera angle on Juno’s face is a medium shot. You can see her facial expression, which is a smile. Her face is however very grey.

SoundThe only sound in the shot is the Juno opening song. This is an example of non-diegetic sound.

Editing techniqueAs this is animated there is n editing techniques present in this shot.

TextOn the screen it says Ellen Page, this is the name of the main actor.

Lighting You cant apply lighting to this as it is all animated.

Camera angleThere is a track8ing used, which is tracking Juno as she walks down an alley.

Sound The only sound in this shot is the Juno theme song, which is an example of non-diegetic.

Editing TechniqueThere are no camera related editing techniques. However, the background in the shot is blue. This could be used to show that during the film she is walking towards a happier ending.

TextThe text on the screen shows an actors name. This seems to be a convention of opening sequences in general, not just for coming of age films.

Lighting There is a no lighting in this shot because it’s all drawn.

Camera angleThere is a birds eye shot looking down on Juno. This could show that in the situation she gets into during the film she is helpless.

SoundYet again, the only sound we can hear is the Juno theme song.

Editing TechniquesThere are no camera editing techniques in this shot. However, they animated the leaves falling on to the path. The colours do vary. The path is grey and the sides of the path are blue.

TextThere is more text on the screen, it says “music by Mateo Messina” and “songs by Kimya Dawson”.

Lighting There is no lighting in this shot because it is hand drawn or computer animated.

Camera angleThere is point of view shot which shows what Juno would be seeing as if we are watching through her.

Sound The only sound is the Juno theme song, which is of course, non-diegetic.

Editing techniqueAs well as being a point of view shot, it is also an eye line shot. We can see what Juno would be looking at.

Text There is text on the screen which says “film editor Dana E. Glauberman.”

Lighting This shot is animated so there is no lighting.

Evaluation• The first two minutes don't tell us much at all. We get absolutely no hints on the actual story. This

may be quite annoying for the audience. • The opening sequence has conformed to the coming of age genre by showing a teenager walking

down the character. Although no narrative has been revealed, we can make a very educated guess and say that she is the main character. This is one convention of coming of age films.

• As this is a coming of age film we know that the target audience are teenagers.