Evaluation
(from 0:30 to 3:00)
The start of this movie opening begins with a confident bouncy tune that repeats during the duration of Georgia (the female character) walking down the street in the most hilarious fancy dress costume. She's extremely proud of it, calling it "the business", but us as the audience view it as being just a piece of comedy for our own entertainment. It demonstrates her character as being an outgoing teenager, so we know what to expect of her personality further on in the movie. When she tells her dad that she doesn't want her olive costume to get crushed, she bashes it on a lamp post in the street. This is typical humour, and one that actually gets the audience laughing. The titles coming and going at the bottom of the screen are styled in a type of handwriting that young female teenagers enjoy writing like (I most certainly did); cute and squiggly font. It pairs with the movie perfectly, being one for female teenagers.
The camera angle then alters so that we can finally see Georgia in her full costume in comparison to the size of the car; she's nearly half the size of it! As she mentions "I have to make an entrance", the scene of her actually making that entrance appears which I believe was creative and clever. We're able to view the people infront of Georgia as if it were ourselves looking at them because the clip had been shot as if it were her eyes scanning the room. A noise of a spring is then played, matching the awkward atmosphere amongst the peers in the room who are all dressed in cute costumes, and not stuffed olives. A clip of everyone laughing is played, then a clip of Georgia's three friends feeling a sense of remorse with guilt written all over their faces, and then it goes back to Georgia, a look of annoyance seeping out from within her.
When Georgia confronts her three friends, who are dressed as the total opposite to her (an angel, sexy devil and a fairy princess) the different shot types were filmed in the way they're supposed to during a conversation. They switched from Georgia, to them, and back to Georgia again, her shoulder/head always in shot as they spoke. Music starts playing again as Georgia looks disappointed and waddles out of the room, a clip of her knocking over everyone's bowls and trays of food along the way.
I like the way they filmed her running across the street and the road until she was out of sight, zooming out as she raced across the shore front. The clip then changed to her running horizontally with the sea in the background, the cameramen following her and filming her as the film title then came up onto the screen, dissapearing when she passed a street lamp; a clever way to remove titles. A lot of clips were filmed from different angles, shaking the film up and absorbing all of the audiences attention. It almost felt as though we were running along with her, seeing her embarrassed expression and then seeing the public all staring at her. The lyrics then sing "I don't know, I don't know, I don't know how we'll making it through this" matching the situation in the film perfectly.
The film opening finishes with her bumping into a woman on a mobiliy scooter, both coming from opposite directions as Georgia tries to slide up to let her pass but her olive costume is just too large and in the way. This is humour at its finest and the first two minutes and a half of this movie opening contained plenty of reasons to laugh. It introduced us to Georgia's character, along with her three friends who we'll probably be seeing later on in the movie.
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