Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008) is a romantic comedy film directed by Peter Sollett. It stars Michael Cera and Kat Dennings. I am going to analyse the films title sequence to see how the film presents it's title. The names of the cast and crew appear throughout this sequence in a cartoony, bold, bubble style.
The title sequence starts in Nick's room panning around his bedroom wall where we see a collage of photos and drawings of himself and his ex girlfriend. This refers to his artistic ways and how he likes to present them. This is also how many other teens display their fond memories and how teens in general are dominantly portrayed. Whilst all of this is happening the Producers and Directors names appear in a bold, yellow capitalised font, which moves. The music in the background is a beaty Alternative/Indie song which goes along with the panning of the room. it is by Devendra Banhart and is called Lover, the first lyrics are 'Well I-I, I wanna be your lover, I wanna be your man'. This song and the pictures of Nick and his ex already show us that there is going to be lots of romance throughout the film.
Mise en scene is seen throughout the sequence but only slightly as we aren't introduced to any characters until nearer the end. From the animations we can see that the characters are passionate about music as many band names appear on the wall and are all in different colours and fonts portraying that the characters are into there music as well as art. We also see the title of the film appear onto a CD. When we get to the end of the sequence and start of the film we see that the setting of the film is in a typical American school, the bell has just rung for the end of the lesson and Norah's walks out of her class with headphones on listening to music, she then meets up with her friend. At this point we can not get a very detailed description of the characters as they are all in uniform but we can see that Norah is a distant character compared to her friend who comes across very loud and bubbly. Also, the way hair and make up has been used on Nora to make her seem not a typical, or dominent representation of a hich school teen.
At the start of the sequence we see lots of panning across the wall with several focus pulls on images of importance. This is done with a steadicam and using a track and dolly to get a good quality shot. At this point the shots are all real but the panning slowly turns from the wall to a notepad and this is where it turns to animated images. This sequence uses a lot of post production effects. A feature in the sequence is where the title moves from a square to a circle which is then wiped off the screen by a ticking clock moving around it and to the beat of the song. This is all animation put onto a real background which has a shallow focus and is of Nick's desk. The animated clock is then superimposed onto the school clock as the bell goes.
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