ANALYSING INTRODUCTION: Pride and Prejudice

Pride and prejudice is a romance/period drama directed by Joe Write in 2005. Traditionally, the production company comes up, followed by the director, film title and cast etc. Before any image we comes on screen we are able to hear the sounds of birds singing, creating mental images of open country side, this is confirmed by the 1^st shot, an establishing shot showing the rural and tranquil country side, setting the scene further and emphasizing the genre and the time the film was set.

The non-diagetic sound or music, plays a key role in the scene, being completely precise in that the first note we hear plays, as the first rays of sun rise. As the music builds the dawn continues to break, changing with the images. The character Elizabeth Benett is the first person we see in the shot, introducing her as the protagonist. We are able to learn that she is of some wealth by the simplistic yet smart dress worn and also that she Is intellectual seeing as she’s reading a book. Our judgements of her wealth are proven correct later in the scene as we see a large house with maids working who Lizzie walks straight past, but also that the family is in need of more money as we overhear a conversation talking about marring a rich man. The intellectual side is also confirmed by the playing of the piano as non-diagetic sound which also builds as the scene progresses creating a climatic effect.