harry potter opening

In this opening scene there are many key ways the directors shows that the film is a fantasy genre film, the way they show this is by showing owls as they represent mystery and wizardry, one other way they show the genre is by showing the costumes of the characters with the long wizard hats to the long robes and lastly with the use of the music and sound it gave the feel of wizardry from it been mysterious ad giving a magical feel.

Some of the questions to be asked are: who are these characters, what’s so special about the boy, why he is with them, how can they do magical things and where are they.

In the opening we find out that there are 4 characters that supposedly are very important, they seem like they are wizards with the use of powers and magical tools, and the main character appears to be the young boy harry potter.

With the use of music and sound the feeling threw out the whole scene is creating a very mysterious vibe but also gave me a very spooky feel.

There are many shots that were affective from long shots to extreme close ups. One of the shots is a long shot of at a long angle of hagrid the effect of that show showed how dominant his appearance was, one other one was an extreme close up of harry porter and his scar this shows importance and that makes him a very important character.