Monday, 4 February 2013

Bridge to Terabithia opening

Bridge to Terabithia 

00:01 Walt Disney 
00:12 Walden Media 
00:19 Walt Disney Pictures and
00:22  Walden Media present 
00:27 A Hal Lieberman Company production and A Lauren Levine production
00:43 Film Title 'Bridge to Terabithia'
01:02 Josh Hutcherson
01:11 AnnaSophia Robb
01:15 Robert Patrick 
01:18 Bailee Madison
01:24 and Zooey Deschanel 
01:28 Casting by 
01:35 Co-producers 
01:40 Music supervisor 
01:44 Music by
01:46 Costumne Designer 
01:50 Edited By 
01:54 Production Designer 
02:02 Director of photography 
02:05 Based on the book by Katherine Paterson 
02:09 Executive Producer 
02:13 Produced by Hal Lieberman 
02:16 Produced by Lauren Levine and David Paterson
02:20 Screenplay by 
02:25 Directed by Gabor Csupo 

Analysis
The sequence opening credits Walt Disney straight away, pulling in young age audiences as well as elder by the later introduction to Walden Media.
I find this opening sequence effect due to the use of music, again like in The Holiday sequence. The music playing starts the film and puts an effect to the film from the beginning. The sound of a guitar suggests that the film will follow a country route. The music also later portrays the genre because it gets much more upbeat and holds a magical, adventurous tone to it, portraying the adventure genre to the film. This is later reinforced by the use of both visual effects and animation. The drawings suggests the film will follow young children and the fictional characters being drawn enforce this and the adventurous style of the film. This shows the boys imagination takes over suggesting it by become danger in the film as they come alive and several of the characters drawn are associated with danger (for example trolls and dragons).
I find this opening sequence is particularly effective because it follows the boys adventure to another house. It creates both an excitable and enjoyable tone to the film for viewers from the start. 

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