The Grinch

We looked at the conventions of the opening sequence for The Grinch which is about a green like monster who hates Christmas and he tries to steal it from the people who live in Whoville, where the film is set. In the opening sequence the scene it set right away, there is a voice over in which he sets the scene for the audience, for example; 'There is no place like Whoville on Christmas day.' This already tells a little bit of the story explaining that it is going to be about Christmas, he also goes on to talk about how much Whoville gets decorated near Christmas which tells the children that it is an important holiday for the people that live there. We see that Whoville is within a snowflake and the fantasy scene is set by having big snowy mountains and white clouds in a perfect blue sky and mist lays across the mountain tops. There is happy and engaging music playing throughout the opening sequence giving off that it will be a jolly film. Towards the end, we get introduced to the characters as we see them preparing for Christmas and gathering up presents, there is a lot of bright colours also which will appeal to the children. You can also see that the characters are very differently dressed which means that they will be different from each other so children can pick a favourite or even relate to the younger people who live in Whoville.