1) The opening scene depicts a cartoon-like forest with singing flowers and a pink bird, seeming like a fairytale. However, the scene suddenly turns dark when the elf is stopped, revealing the actual opening. 2) The opening titles of Lord of the Rings are in a font related to fantasy. A narrator describes the history of rings of power given to elves, dwarves, and men. It then introduces Sauron as the antagonist who created a ring to enslave the other races. Villages are shown burning as Sauron's forces attack, showing he is a great threat.

1. 3 opening scenes
1) A series of unfortunate events
At the start of the film they set the scene with a vast scene of
cartoon trees with a cartoon pink bird flying across the
screen, two blue birds symbolize happiness and incorporate
titles into the film; it looks like a typical cartoon fairytale.
Then even more titles are shown; friendly woodland
creatures are shown to symbolize normal, child friendly,
fairytale elements. The bird flies through smoke to create a
hart this symbolizes cartoon happiness. There’re singing
flowers, which are often found in cartoons. The word granny
is on a mailbox, which can normally be associated with
friendly and fragile. The character and title are centralized to
show they are important and are the focus of the attention.
The camera follows the little Elf to show that he is the main
character. Laughing and dancing is stereotypically all the
little elf does, it all seems too happy to be real suggesting
that it is all a dream or a fantasy. The opening is very
childish and creepy which matches the music until the elf is
stopped and the screen goes dark revealing the actual
opening.

2. 2) Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring
At the start the titles are instantly shown in a very specific
font that can closely be related to the fantasy genre, the
narrator (Galadriel/Cate Blanchette) instantly starts relating
to the books and describes the problem that is shown at the
beginning, the title of the film is shown in the font that is
instantly recognizable for the lord of the rings and hobbit
trilogy/saga. It gives a great deal of background knowledge
when it shows Elves and Dwarves and Men being given rings
of power and relating closely to the books again. It then cuts
to the introduction of the main Antagonist and problem
throughout the trilogy and gives information to why he is so
important, Also the music so far has been calm as there is no
sign of danger, the music increases in volume and tempo to
show that this is one of the main characters however not in a
positive way, fire and lava are a common thing on the screen
now to signify danger and peril. The narrator describes the
rings distributed fairly and nothing is wrong until Sauron
creates his own ring that is designed to enslave all the other
races and the Antagonist’s reasons for this are purely selfish
and evil. A close up of Sauron’s face shows no eyes or any
detection of Human or fantasy creature there is no detection
of emotion or human like qualities. An extreme close up of
the ring on Sauron’s finger shows that it is of great
importance. The next scenes are of villages being burnt
down and people who would stand against Sauron being
saughtered this shows that he is a force not to be taken
lightly. The next scenes have music which has changed to
opera and have a great sense of scale and battle of which
adds to the giant battle which is shown in screen it adds to
showing what is at stake. The music stops as you see a close
up of the back of Sauron’s head towering over the men
showing that they are in great danger and this isn’t going to
be a positive start to a film. The next scene is just showing
Sauron wiping the men away as if they were flies and getting
an overall feel of the awe of the movie.