OPENING SEQUENCE 3

LOVE ACTUALLY - ROMANCE COMEDY

• High emotions are presented, promoting feelings of happiness, intimacy and love between characters, indicating the genre of film
• Close ups of characters are used for the audience to view their emotions, seeing their excitement at being reunited with one another
• Medium close ups are commonly used within this opening sequence, in order for the audience to view the emotions of characters, along with the body language; such as hugging and kissing one another, promoting connotations of the romance genre
• The sans-serif font used indicates further the type of genre
• Opening titles
• Introduces characters (through voice over) and reveals information about them
• Establishes genre