Finding Nemo Opening Scene

Finding Nemo Opening Scene

From the title of the film, you can tell immediately that it's an adventure film. This is because it suggests that somebody will go missing and a search will be carried out to find them. The audience hears the name Nemo mentioned right at the start when Marlyn and Coral are discussing the names they are going to call their children. Therefore, this gives the audience an idea that it will be one of the children that goes missing.
From the beginning, a family element is introduced because the couple have moved to a new area that is appropriate for raising their children in. The audience can then tell that the theme is family orientated.
The opening scene uses a lot of bright colours and all the fish are colourful and look like they're having fun, whereas the shark is a dark colour which suggests binary opposites. The binary opposites are the fish and the shark, so it is good and evil. The audience knows to relate to Marlyn and Coral's side because they are on the good side and are automatically seen as good characters that the audience can relate to.
The sound used in this clip is soft and gentle. A calm piece of music is used and the sound of bubbles and water makes the audience feel relaxed. However, when the shark comes you notice the calm and gentle music stops and it quickly switches to a dark and scary soundtrack. This represents the sharks character, and lets the audience know something bad is going to happen.
The audience is introduced to the setting straight away. It is bright and lively, which keeps the audience interested at the same time as picking up the location of where it is set. The area is a good area, which you can tell from the dialogue from when they are talking about moving there.
Genre is represented in many ways in the clip. Just from reading the title, the audience can pick up that it is an adventure film. Right from the very beginning, when the shark comes, this introduces the first piece of action. Therefore, the audience can probably tell that after this it will go into the genre of Adventure.
The lighting used in the opening clip is very bright therefore it seems fun and interesting for the audience however it gets a lot darker when the shark comes so it changes the whole mood of the scene.