Opening Sequences

The opening sequence to Napoleon Dynamite caught our attention for the uniqueness of the opening. It draws audiences in with the graphics and the audio. You immediately get the sense of who the characters are, with the names of different objects of food, drawing etc. The main character Napoleon is shown first out of the characters. With the mise-en-scene audiences immediately get a sense of the setting of a school, with the text books, music, and other props.
We like the idea of how the credits are laid out and its visually gratifying to watch. We hope to mimic this idea, to capture audiences attention.

We specifically liked the opening sequence to Juno, because it was done in a child-like way. The colours, movement and music combined made it an appropriate opening sequence to look and and get inspiration from. As you can see above, it shows different screen shots from the sequence and shows the simplicity of the look, which is ideal to capture a childs attention. However, we watched a behind the scenes video of the making of the opening title sequence and it changed our minds of mimicking a scene like it because it obviously was time consuming and more complex than the way it appeared.