This is my first analysis of a film opening for my Media AS foundation portfolio.

1. By Faisa Mohamoud

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The film starts with a light white feather
going across a old American-like street . This
shot was a medium shot of the feather , this
could show how significant this feather is
compared to the big bad world , genre of this
film is drama we can recognize this due to
the noticeable absence of distinguishable
features. Due to the cars, style of people’s
clothes and the retro trainers which Forrest is
wearing in the sequence we can tell that the
movie is set in the 80’s.

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The floating feather is very significant in this
sequence it represents forests life throughout
the movie. The feather went wherever the
wind took it and by chance it landed at
forests feet. This suggests that
metaphorically Forrest is the feather and he
never tried to control his destiny just like the
feather and he went wherever life took him

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As the sequence begins we see a feather
floating in the sky and slowly floating around
a small suburban town in America.
Throughout the sequence one camera shot is
used which is a crane, which then goes into a
steady- cam. This shot establishes the setting
and sets the scene for the movie. The
scene, which is established, is a small town in
America.

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The Drama genre also tends to exhibit real life
situations along with having characters that
participate in everyday jobs, and living an
everyday life which makes it seem very realistic
to the audience. Having these specific features
signify to us that the genre will be drama. The
title sequence also creates an enigma for us as
the audience because we want to know why the
feather has landed at Forrest’s feet and nobody
else’s. Automatically by the feather landing there
by chance it makes us as the audience think why?

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The music that is used in the title sequence
which is produced by Allan Silvestre is very
orchestral using a lot of stringed instruments and
also a piano. The music used also fits the setting
very well because as we are watching the feather
slowly fall by having the stringed instruments
and the piano in the background creates a very
peaceful angelic atmosphere. The music
gradually gets louder as we are finally going to
find out the destination of the feather and as it
gets closer to Forrest this creates good suspense
because we are finally getting to find out where
this mysterious feather is about to land.
Themes : hope , proper and destiny .