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Bridget Jones Diary

Here the opening sequence begins with a long shot of a street with a house/flat in the middle of the screen, Bridget (main character) is narrating at this point talking about how lonely she is, the fact that the streets are empty with snow on the ground helps suggest the loneliness even more, also the post with the party hat shows that she is alone as we later find her drinking and signing on her own as if its her won little party, all of the clues like party hat and snow suggest that this is the holiday period were everyone comes together to celebrate this event ,however Bridget is alone with no family or friends. The difference between a thriller and this genre of romance comedy is the paceBecause it is much slower with the transitions and movement within the scene (mise en scene).

Bridget Jones Diary

Bridget Jones DiaryWhen then come inside the apartment and we first see Bridget alone on the sofa, the sofa and Bridget's clothing are both red, this helps support the fact this is during the holiday’s. we also have the music of ‘all by myself’ playing during the rest of the opening scene, this confirms that she is all alone during the holiday’s, we have a cut to the TV to show what she is doing alone whilst smoking and drinking, at the end of this section she checks the answering machine to show that she is looking to see if anyone has called but there was nomessages on it, this show even more that she has no one to be with.

Bridget Jones DiaryHere we cut to a slight close up of her face of her drinking alone, she then starts signing along with the song, this show the audience that even she has admitted that she alone with no one to care for. The way she signs is very wimpy as if she is crying about herself, she start to pretend to play the guitar at one point, this suggests that she is using drink to block out the pain as she is drunk. The difference here is that this point is the first close-up of the character whereas in thriller we have loads of close-up’s revealing the scene slowly , but this reveals the whole scene at the start with a master shot of the room.

Bridget Jones DiaryThe titles throughout the scene are all san serif and yellow coloured, whereas thrillers are blue and serif, this is because the emotion in this scene is very sad and depressed for the fact that she has no one to love, but a thriller uses there titles to create tension and suspense, here she starts putting energy into the movements and signing, this expresses the full emotion she has because she is alone and as the opening scene goes on she gets more and more depressed. The other differences from a thriller is the fact that the lighting in very bright although thrillers keep a dark lighting to keep all the scene concealed from the audience.