Bridget Jones's Diary

Director: Maguire
Year: 2001
Origin: UK/France/Ireland
Genre: RomCom

The introduction to this film shows Bridget speaking to other characters while background music begins to play
"Yummy, Turkey Curry. My favourite."
The camera tracks Bridget as she walks forward, following her as she passes two other characters and the image freezes then dissolves into our next shot which is of a low key, a snowy building and a camera crane reveals the building from top to bottom and then there is a  fade to another shot of a post then another fade to a crane of what must be the place where she lives.

Dissolve

Crane

The shots of all these snowy places not only allows us to discover where she lives but is a reflection on the character herself at this point in time, a woman who is out of luck in love and is alone so the snowy place reflects to cold feeling she has and there is a lack of warmth. This idea is developed because of the monologue that the character has given, a non-diegetic voice over where she expresses her feelings.

The first shot of our main character is in a room of her home and we see her in a Long Shot to express her isolation and how alone she is in this opening as the only character is her. The title that appears is the name of the main character and it is in a hand written style font to relate to the "Diary" of this film and shows how the film is something personal.

Fade in Title, Handwritten Text 

The scene of Bridget in her house is where we find most of the titles and here we also find where the editors have used certain transitions to pass the message that Bridget is bored and alone to the audience and the audience can begin to understand her character.

As her character sits alone in this Long Shot we see that in a shot change a fade is used to show this character's actions are over a period of time but also the slow fade tells an audience that - for Bridget time is dragging on for her like when a person is bored.

Fade replacing Jump Cut

Then there is the eye line match of her looking at the TV screen (we cannot see what is on it) and then the next shot we see the introduction of the show "Frasier". The intro for Frasier is a line forming a cityscape but it is quite mundane to look at and in the next shot she is yawning. The mundane Frasier intro goes along with the idea Bridget is bored completely.

Eyeline Match

The title of the movie "Bridget Jones's Diary" appears in quite bold and outstanding text which differs from the rest of the titles which have used this hand-written and far more personal. 



The Title appears at the end of the opening of this film, the title of the film itself is in a different textsa and made to stand out and it is different from all the other text that has appeared in this opening sequence. The character Bridget even appears to be pointing to the text to address it in the image for audiences to know it is the title.