Bridget Jones’ diary

Conventions of an Opening Sequence

Introduced to main character

This is the first we see of the main character. We can tell that she is the main character because we follow her throughout the opening sequence. We being to ask ourselves questions such as: who is she? Where is she?

Titles From the titles we find out who the main characters are played by, Renee Zellweger. We find out the title of the film as ‘Bridget Jones’ Dairy’ which indicates to us that the main character is Bridget Jones. We gain knowledge of the production team as well as the production and distribution company.

Music

The music tells us the tone of the film. The music ‘all by myself’ indicates that she feels depressed and possibly vulnerable. At the point we feel sympathy for her singing to herself alone in her flat as this is what we assume someone who is alone and emotionally broken to do. This sets the genre of the film as a romantic comedy as the music has emotional lyrics in it.

At this point in the opening sequence she is doing a voice over. This tells us that she is British due to the British accent.

Setting.

From the setting we can see that she lives in a flat. We do not know if she lives alone or with someone else at this point, however we later find out that she lives alone.

Unanswered questions

From the opening sequence we being to ask ourselves why she is drinking so much and why she is living alone at her age. We wonder why she looks so depressed and miserable and we want to find out her general background information.