Bridget Jones Diary opens with Bridget alone on New Year's Eve, drinking and singing along to "All By Myself" while checking her empty answering machine. She is dressed in red and the apartment emphasizes her loneliness during the holidays when others are with family and friends. Through close-ups and her exaggerated singing, the scene conveys Bridget's depression over being alone without love on the holiday. Compared to a thriller, the scene has brighter lighting, slower pacing, and reveals the whole scene at once rather than slowly through close-ups.

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Here the opening sequence begins with a long shot of a street with a house/flat in
the middle of the screen, Bridget (main character) is narrating at this point talking
about how lonely she is, the fact that the streets are empty with snow on the ground
helps suggest the loneliness even more, also the post with the party hat shows that
she is alone as we later find her drinking and signing on her own as if its her won
little party, all of the clues like party hat and snow suggest that this is the holiday
period were everyone comes together to celebrate this event ,however Bridget is
alone with no family or friends. The difference between a thriller and this genre of
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Because it is much the pace
with the transitions and
movement within the scene
(mise en scene).

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When then come inside the apartment and we first see Bridget alone on the sofa,
the sofa and Bridget's clothing are both red, this helps support the fact this is
during the holiday’s. we also have the music of ‘all by myself’ playing during the
rest of the opening scene, this confirms that she is all alone during the holiday’s,
we have a cut to the TV to show what she is doing alone whilst smoking and
drinking, at the end of this section she checks the answering machine to show that
she is looking to see if anyone has called but there was no
messages on it, this show
even more that she has
no one to be with.

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Here we cut to a slight close up of her face of her drinking alone, she then starts
signing along with the song, this show the audience that even she has admitted that
she alone with no one to care for. The way she signs is very wimpy as if she is
crying about herself, she start to pretend to play the guitar at one point, this
suggests that she is using drink to block out the pain as she is drunk. The difference
here is that this point is the first close-up of the character whereas in thriller we
have loads of close-up’s revealing the scene slowly , but this reveals the whole
scene at the start with a master shot of the room.

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The titles throughout the scene are all san serif and yellow coloured, whereas
thrillers are blue and serif, this is because the emotion in this scene is very sad and
depressed for the fact that she has no one to love, but a thriller uses there titles to
create tension and suspense, here she starts putting energy into the movements
and signing, this expresses the full emotion she has because she is alone and as
the opening scene goes on she gets more and more depressed. The other
differences from a thriller is the fact that the lighting in very bright although thrillers
keep a dark lighting to keep all the scene concealed from the audience.