Saturday, 29 September 2012

Opening Titles: Bridget Jones's Diary

LINK HERE

Info:
Actors:
Renée Zellweger
Colin Firth
(and) Hugh Grant
Jim Broadbent
Gemma Jones

The actors in bold are the most important, we know this because the font size was larger when their names were on the screen and their names lingered on screen for longer than the other two.

Casting by:
Michelle Guish

Line Producer:
Peter McAleese

Music Supervisor:
Nick Angel

Co-Producer:
Debra Hayward
Lisa Chasin

Original Score:
Patrick Doyle

Costume by:
Rachael Fleming

Production Design:
Gemma Jackson

Editor:
Martin Walsh

Director of Photography:
Stuart Dryburgh

Executive Producer:
Helen Fielding

Novel by:
Helen Fielding

Screenplay by:
Helen Fielding
Andrew Davis
Richard Curtis

Producers:
Tim Bevah
Eric Fellner
Jonathan Cavendish

Director:
Sharon Maguire

Action
We are introduced to the lead girl, who is clearly in a bad state. She is either depressed or upset about something we don't know yet. We can assume, seeing as it's a chick-flick, that it will have something to do with relationships.
There isn't much in the way of geographical hints in the opening, but the phone tone does speak with a British accent. Therefore we assume that the film is going to be British and be set in the UK somewhere (if we didn't know that beforehand).
She is clearly drinking quite a lot of alcohol, which could foreshadow her abuse of the substance throughout the film, or could be a recurring symbol used throughout.
The room is reasonably messy which could be due to her 'depression', this is a stereotypical atmosphere for someone going through something major. 

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