Research: Juno opening sequence

We researched more specifically into the opening sequence of Juno. Here are different conventions from Juno and what each connote:

The music used in this clip is quite childish. The singer, Barry Louis polisar, produces children's music and not serious grown up music connoting that she's not part of the grown up world even though she's a teenager who is meant to be grown up. The songs lyrics gives images of love and romance which possibly connotes how this character is alone and wants love in her life.

Lots of the opening sequence is animated, this connotes again that this character is quite childish, this is because the animation is in a style that looks like its a doodle by a young person. As well as showing that she is a childish character, it shows that the whole film could be quite childish. This could also show that she's different to everyone else because as she's walking she goes into a world of her own that is once again quite childish looking.

Also in this animation part everything seems very simple and colourful compared to what possible she's sees as being a complex and dull world. Also throughout the animation nothing bad happens, she seems happing just living in her own world. However, when we come out of the animation we can see that she's goes into a drug connoting that something slightly more serious is happening. Therefore this opening sequence could be seen as a representation of the journey she is taking in life where sooner or later she has to grown up and we can see this from how she's first of all in her own little world but then has to grow up when a more serious matter arises where she has to go to the drug store.

If you look just at the character, you can see that her clothes seem quite colourful and in her hand is jug of Sunny-D which is a very average, stereotypical child's drink connoting that she is a child in a grown up world and that she wants to be different, which is why we see her in her simplistic and different view of the world.


Also, if you look at the scenery around her you can see that it is very average and quite plain. This could connote how she views the world around her to be very average and dull or it could also connote that she is an average girl who lives a very average life. You could say this because she is walking down an ordinary street wearing average clothes.