Analysis: 10 Things I Hate About You

i am going to be analysing the first 2minutes of the opening sequence of the movie "10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU". i m going to be analysing the mise en scene, camera shot angles, and composition, and i am also going to analyse the editing in the opening sequence.



in the opening sequence we start of by witnessing a sketch being drawn. However the editing is very fast and this makes the sketch finish quite quickly. The sketch represents childhood because it looks like it was made with crayons. this is used to reflect the personality of teenagers. the music is really upbeat and this makes the sketch seem very interesting and this also gets the audience excited, anxious and desperate to know what the movie is about. we then witness a transition from the sketch onto an establishing shot of the city that was drawn in the sketch. this effect makes the movie seem very lively and exciting.

the font of the title looks like its been made by doodling on paper. this shows that the characters in the film are based in high school. to show the city that they are living in the director chooses to use panning and also because he wanted to show the names of the actors and he though that the city would be a great background to be used. Both the music and the panning continues and we see a normal environment in which the people are living in.

the director then focuses on a blue car and it turns out that the music we were hearing in the background is diagetic because the teenage girls in the blue car are also listening to that same song. we then feel that the camera is moving away from the blue car and while the tracking is happening the happy cheerful music that the girls in the blue car are listening to starts fading away and a different song starts taking over. Then the camera focuses on a red car and there is a girl driving that car. The different song that comes on is also diagetic and it is coming from the stereo of the red car. this change in sound shows the different personalities of the teenagers. the girls in the blue car are happy and fun and they look like they care about their reputation, however the girl in the red car looks like she doesnt even care about what people think of her the music tat she is listening to also suggests that she doesnt care about her reputation the lyrics of the song quotes "i dont give a damn about reputation".
we then get a cut and then we see hockey sticks being held by teenagers and they re playing with a ball in a very tight space. we then start moving into a high angle shot and this shots shows the students that attend this school. we then see a long shot or an establishing shot of the school and its structure, this shot was chosen by the director because he wanted to show e audience were these teenagers are at.

we then see a mid shot of the girl that was listening to that rebellious song in her car and this shot suggests to the audience tht she is the main character. we then see a close up of the name of the "guidance counselor" this shot also makes the audience get the impression that this counselor has a big role in this movie. we then cut on to a male teenagers face and this also suggests that he might be in trouble because he is in the counselors office. this shot also suggests that this boy has an important role in this movie.
By:Ziad