Jurassic Park Opening

Release: 1993
Director: Steven Spielberg
Studio: Amblin Entertainment
Box Office: $1, 029, 153, 882
Critical Acclaim: BAFTA, MTV Movie Awards, Grammy Award and Saturn Award
Genre: Sci-Fi/Action/Adventure

Narrative:
From this opening the audience discover that this film has the narrative involving dinosaurs. It is not until towards the end of the clip that the first shot of a dinosaur is actually shown. However from the location of a jungle area and the main character wearing a safari costume it indicates that this film will have the plot of a dangerous creature being a risk to people and the main protagonist having to protect people from this creature or stop it escaping.

Camera Shots and Angles:

• The smokey effect in the medium shot of the trees rustling gives a spooky effect. The smoke blurs the audiences vision slightly and makes the shot seem mysterious as they are unaware of what is lurking behind the trees and curious to see what it is. Mystery makes the audience nervous as it provokes the element of surprise. 
• The close up shot of the mans face looks scared and surprised. This indicates to the audience that danger is on the way. Danger is stereotyped with adventure.
• The Medium shot of the man looking serious whilst holding a gun, this makes him appear powerful and like he's ready to fight the creature in the cage if needs be. He looks like he is used to handling weapons which allows the audience to have an insight into the narrative of the film
• Shot of the cage with strong bars and metal reinforcements indicates that there is some sort of dangerous creature being held in there, this gives an insight into the narrative.
• The extreme close up of the characters eyes looking into the cage and being scared and backing away quickly, exaggerates the characters fear. Using an extreme close up really shows off the fear in the characters eyes. Fear gives connotations of the adventure genre.
• Zoom shot to animal cage in the background of the picture. The zoom passes all the other characters quickly and still only focuses on the cage. This exaggerates the cages importance in the story line, and tells the audience that they should focus on it. The animal cage containing a dangerous animal gives connotations that the animal, in this case the dinosaur will be a antagonist in this film. It indicates that the narrative will involve the dinosaurs escaping and the protagonists which will likely be the humans, will need to stop them.

Sound: 

• Non diegetic drum sound cuts in when first title comes up. The drum beat sound gives connotations of the sound of a loud dinosaur foot hitting the ground. This gives subtle hints to the audience about the narrative and ties in well with the sci-fi genre of the film.
• The sound gets louder when the actual title of the film appears. The drumming sound connoting a dinosaurs footstep is louder than the others signifying that the dinosaur is getting closer and the tension is increased, this is then followed by non diegetic sound of other music that sounds like jungle/tribal music which represents the location of the film and the films narrative. 
• Diegetic sound of the bushes/trees rustling. This creates a tense and scary effect as the audience worries something is going to pop out from behind the bushes. Wind rustling through trees is a common sound effect used in films to create an eerie mood. The fact that this is one of the beginning shots represents that the director would want the audience to feel uneasy and curious during these first few shots.
• The sound effect of the dinosaur growling from within the cage is used to create tension within the audience. This effect is used before we actually see the animal and we are therefore unaware that it's actually a dinosaur. This effect gives hints to the audience about what the creature might be which also gives hints about the narrative. The growling is used to make the audience aware how powerful and dangerous the dinosaur is.

Mise en Scene:

• The mans costume provides narrative to the audience. The man is dressed in safari gear indicating that his job is something to do with animals in a location like the jungle. The man is carrying a gun which represents that he works with dangerous/big animals and he needs to be armed for safety. He is dressed differently to the other characters who are all dressed in a workers uniform. This connotes that he is more powerful and possibly the leader or in charge of the workers. He stands confidently and shouts orders at the workers which backs up this theory. 
• The other characters are dressed in uniforms and hardhats indicating that they are workers but are socially lower than the man dressed in safari gear as they are all made to wear the same thing and accept the commands the man orders.

Typography:

• Universal idnet is the first thing to appear on the screen. /This is conventional of almost all film openings.
• The font is like safari style writing, like writing that is typically written on the side of safari jeeps etc. This represents the narrative of the film and the idea that the location of the film will be somewhere exotic and open.
• The typography shakes in time with the sound effects of the drum beats. This backs up the idea that the drum beats are representing dinosaur footsteps because the font shakes every time a drum beat occurs to give the effect of the earth moving.