The document summarizes the opening scenes of Quentin Tarantino's film Django Unchained. It begins with production logos from The Weinstein Company and Columbia Pictures. The opening credits then roll, identifying the director, main cast members, and title against images of slaves walking in the desert. The setting and western-style music are used to establish the film's time period and genre.

1. Analysing a Film Opening
Quentin Tarantino’s Django
Unchained

2. What is Django Unchained
• Django Unchained is a 2012 American epic
western film written and directed by Quentin
Tarantino.
• The Film involves a slave who is freed/recruited
by a bounty hunter and aims to free his wife and
get revenge on his former masters
• The film also features the talents of Jamie Foxx,
Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio and Samuel.
L. Jackson

3. The Opening Scenes
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8oDmK5
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4. The Production Logos
• These Logos represent the Hollywood production
companies ‘The Weinstein Company’ and
‘Columbia Pictures’. These companies helped to
fund and provide sets for Tarantino’s film

5. The Opening Credits
• Then the movie begins with the opening
credits, these start by recognizing the
production company as ‘presenting’ the movie

6. The Opening Credits
• The Director is then credited. Tarantino both
wrote and directed this film, so he is not just
credited as the director

7. The Opening Credits
• After this, the top billed cast are shown. These
are the actors with the largest roles e.g. Jamie
Foxx as Django. With this being a film by Quentin
Tarantino, there are many famous actors shown
as well as actors that have been cast in his
previous movies.

8. The Opening Credits
• The Title is the shown. The camera shows slaves
walking across the desert. This suggests that
slavery will be a key focus in this movie.
• The title is also shown in front of Foxx’s character
Django to show that he is a slave as well

9. The Opening Credits
• The next credits could be for people that were
in charge of make up and photography etc…
or, judging by the first credit on this slide, they
could be actors that are also starring in this
film

10. The Opening Credits
• Now we see the production credits, these include the
writers of the theme song, casting agent and editors of
the film

11. The Opening Credits
• Finally we have the executive producers

12. Setting and Music
• The setting is established through the desert
scene that the slaves are walking through, this
has been done to reflect the western setting and
theme that the film has.
• The western setting is also shown through the
‘Good, Bad and the Ugly’ style music used with a
vocalist similar to Elvis Presley or Johnny Cash
• Furthermore, the typeface used to display the
opening credits is similar to western films as well
as the logo for Columbia Pictures, which reflect
the 1950’s, spaghetti western era.