Romeo and Juliet

The film starts with a very dramatic title sequence. In our generation we enjoy engaging and dramatic films. The prologue opens the film and is repeated through out the opening scene.

 It begins with an extreme long shot of the T.V screen with a black news reader reporting on the brawl. This helps modernise it as in the Shakespearean era there was a lot of racism and discrimination between ethnic groups. Another obvious reason is the fact that televisions were not yet invented in the 17th century.

 The T.V is also situated in the middle of the screen and has a black background. This causes you to focus only on the news as there is nothing else to side track you.

 Towards the end of the opening prologue there is a picture of a broken ring. I believe this is to show the hatred between the two gangs as a ring usually symbolises friendship.

 After the news bulletin there is a fast zoom in through the streets of Verona. The streets are very built up and crowded. This could show how the city has developed over the years and that if there was a big brawl it could cause a lot of destruction.

 There is then a classic and passionate soundtrack which start’s. This may be included as they decided to keep certain factors of the film the same as the play and this type of music would have been very popular back then. It may also be used to show how passionate the script is. Lastly it may show how much hatred there is between the two gang’s as you can hate someone with a passion.

 After the fast zoom in, there is typography on a black background which reads IN FAIR VERONA with bold letters. I think this is so it sticks in your mind. It was also used in the opening line of the starting prologue. I think this sentence may be used to show that it is usually a peaceful place.

 Through out the shot’s of Verona one what caught my attention was an image of two tall skyscrapers one which said Montague and the other Capulet. I think this is used to show the wealthy side of the two families. Furthermore there was a big statue of Jesus in between the two buildings. This shows they are both equally as religious. I also think the reason that the two buildings are so big is as they look over everybody and run the place. It may also show they are higher up then everybody else.

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 Through out the fast clips there are many images of modern technology for example cop cars, helicopters and guns. This is used to modernise it and entice the viewers.

 This might show how chaotic the city can become as they need all these devices to gain control over it.

 There is then a montage of shots showing many newspaper headlines about the civic brawl. They are repeating the prologue again as each headline repeats a line of it. There is then a gap between each clip showing different chaotic scenes to show the viewers how much destruction was ...

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