Film opening for proposal

The opening of the film proposal sets the genre of a romantic comedy through varies ways. Firstly we see a man and women whom we notice are going to be the main character throughout the film. We can see that they are both totally opposite as the women is exercising before work in the morning and up on time whereas the boy is late for work and slept through his alarm. However, as the film goes on we can see that they have similar work roles and therefore are going to be together a lot so we can encode that they are going to be close with each other.

The camera shots at the start of the film are one after the other; this shows them both having a conversation with each other and shows that the two main characters are close with each other. Also, by us not hearing much from the other characters at the beginning all our attention is on them two and it gives us the idea that the two characters are close.

The music at the start of the film is positive music which sets the scene of the characters getting along and something good between them two is going to happen. However we do see many challenging stereotypes as the man has lower status than the women. The women look like a successful business women and is the manager and the man follows the manager and listens to what the women has to say.

We can straight away see where the film is going to be set because we see a snapshot of the building through the women’s window. We get the thought that it is in New York City, which we straight away think this is going to be a romantic genre and the yellow taxis make us think of new York city even more.

When the woman goes into work everyone ignores her, as if she is a high authority figure and everyone listens to her and doesn't dare say a word. However, because the man talks to the women it shows that he is different to the others and they have a close relationship. She also shows that she is interested in him and she talks about what coffee he likes.