Lucy’s children’s film opening sequence homework.

Snow White and the seven dwarfs..

The Walt Disney logo is shown before any opening credits, this instantly put forwards that the film is aim at the target audience of children (‘U’, ‘PG’) this is closely followed by the theme tune and credits that a Walt Disney feature production presents ‘Snow White and the seven dwarfs’. The theme tunes is an old band giving the feeling that the film is set in a later period of time (1973) the theme tunes also gives a general introduction that it’s a fantasy film. As the credits fade and the theme tune caries on, the book appears and opens, this is a image that children should be familiar of, maybe with their parents reading them stories, it straight away is a welcome to the children watching. The text of the book inside is interesting and large so it’s easy to read, with use of colours and images, like a children’s fantasy story book. There is lots of time for children to read the two pages themselves with the theme tunes still going. The book gives a opening to the film, however once the book is faded and the castle is shown, this is an establishing shot and it is soon clear that the plot is then shown in the opening sequence, this means that children who cant read don’t have to worry about reading the plot on the book. The plot of the film is a typical fantasy there consists of a princess and an evil stepmother (Queen) this is shown very clearly as the characters are introduced, the evil stepmother is using her dark powers of a well know spell (mirror, mirror on the wall) to find out who she needs to get rid of to be the fairest of them all. You can see that Snow White (princess) is being made a slave by the Queen and is having to scrub the floors on her hands and knees, this sets the date of the film that is was set in, as children know a days are not so familiar of people being made to hand scrub floors by there ‘evil’ stepmothers. Spite the fact that Snow White is being made a slave, she is singing and humming a tune with a smile on her face. You can hear the diegetic sound of the water splashing onto the floor and the squeak of the bucket being lifted out of the well. The use of a talking mirror and that Snow White is talking to the doves and they nod in reply shows an obvious genre of fantasy. To complete the fantasy a prince is intruded using a panning shot on his white stallion, whilst Snow White is wishing down the wishing well for the one she loves.