The opening of ‘Matilda’ starts with the opening credits on bright backgrounds that change from yellow to green to orange, the text is in a childish font and it gives the impression that it could have been written by a young child. The credits change quickly and go to the main title of the film ‘Matilda’.
The scene quickly changes to a close up of the babies eyes. As the camera zooms out the voice over starts and we can see that the baby we are looking at is a baby girl in a hospital cot. This is an example of non-diegetic sound in the opening of this film. The voiceover is used to introduce the characters aswell as give us an idea as to how the stories going to carry out. As we listen to the voiceover we learn more about the story line, which we can see is the life of this baby. Before the voice over starts the music is calm and slow.
We get a good understanding of what this film is going to be about when we see the nurse show the baby to her dad through the window. The reaction the character of her father shows us is not what we expected to see. The camera angle at this point is important because it shows us all three characters and we can see their reactions.
We get a good idea of the story and life of the characters when the voiceover says “for better or for worse”, as this is said, the camera angle changes from the baby, Matilda, to her father. The voiceover then stops and the parents are shown talking about Matilda. They are walking towards the camera as the camera moves backwards away from them.
Once they are in the car we see a close up of a foot hitting the brakes and then a bird’s eye view of the car, skidding around a corner in the car park, we are shown this so that we know the character is careless and impatient. We can see this from the way he is driving.
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