Bridget Jones

When watching the opening of the film 'Bridget Jones's Diary' we a first presented by a character who is wearing a red dress. The dress looks like its a type of dress a person would wear when it is Christmas, also the colour red is associated with Christmas, a time for love. During this scene she talks out to the audience (talks into the camera). Unlike other opening sequences you are presented the persons face this can give you a lot of information to the audience .

Sound

There is music being played at the beginning of the film and also through out the opening sequence. At the beginning there is the sound of a piano playing, this sets a charm atmosphere, also relates to her mood.  When she starts moving forwards the music then changes tempo it sounds more lively. On top of this music being played she is narrating over the top, this suggests that she is looking back in her past, informing  us what went on.

When she is in her flat a song is being played of the top, this song relates to the mood that she is in, later on in the scene the music becomes from being no-diegetic to diegetic music as the actor then starts to sing along to it. This is presented really well with in the scene. When she goes to check the her phone the answering machine starts to play. It says you have no new messages this suggests to us that she has no friends and is lonely.

Editing 

Some of the editing techniques that are used are fades and cross dissolves, this is done to suggest that these images are memories of what she once had


Mise-en-scene

When looking at the opening scene there is a use of low key lighting this says that she is lonely, makes it more of a 'real' situation, people may relate to her as they could of felt or been in the same situation as she's in. The credits are yellow and the type of writing that they are in reflected what type of film it is, they colour is yellow as it reflects her mood, mellow. The type of writing that is used is the type of hand writing  as this film is based on a diary.

Out side the window its snowing, this could relate to winter and as we already have found out its Christmas. When it snows you want to be with your family having a good time or being all nice a worm. As we can see she is all by herself, not doing anything apart from watching TV, drinking and smoking this the re-enforces to us that she is lonely, she has no-one.