Opening sequence analysis

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Mean Girls opening sequence analysis.

Mean Girls is an American teen comedy based on the book "Queen bees and wannabes" written by Rosalind Wiseman.
The film was directed by Mark Waters and was released during the summer of 2004.
The opening scene of the film shows us home-schooled daughter of zoologist parents, Cody Heron (Lindsay Lohan) is unprepared for her first day of public high school. The first part of the film is shown as a black background with the words fading in reading ‘Paramount company pictures presents’, followed by ‘A Lorne Michaels production’. Then lastly the main actresses name ‘Lindsay Lohan’ finishes the title sequence. The font used on the black background is bright, contrasting with the black making it appeal to the teenage target audience and also linking it to the films genre. The sound playing is non diagetic, its piano led music. Suddenly it cuts to upbeat drum music (this creates an exciting atmosphere) when the film title comes up reading ‘Mean Girls’, the title slowly fades.
Two parents are shown; they appear to be talking to a child. A low angle has been used to suggest this. The dialogue also shows this, the parents are acting in a patronising manor by looking down at the child and making sure she has their phone numbers. Cady pops up on the screen having been sat down whist her parents were talking to her; this creates comical mood. The scene changes and Cady goes on to explaining who she is. Clips of steriotypical home schooled children are shown. Cady makes them out to be "freaks" and says how she is nothing like them but that she was raised in Africa and has never been taught with other children while she was growing up. Images of her playing with animals are also shown to.
The scene changes again to Cady outside her new high school. Her parents are saying goodbye to her before she leaves. She then turns around to almost be hit by a bus; this shows her inexperience of living a city life and continues to add comical elements.
On the topic of costume, Cady is dressed plain 'boring' clothing, seperating her from the 'normal' teenagers at her high school.
A point of view shot is shown of Cady walking towards the high school and continues cutting to shots of her walking and back to point of view shots. The camera is shaking for the point of view shots which shows she is nervous.