The opening credits of The Notebook slowly fade in showing a landscape view of a river and sunset. Warm colors like reds, yellows, and oranges set a romantic tone, enhanced by soft piano music. A character is seen gently rowing a boat through the river, seen only from behind to build intrigue. The credits fade in at the bottom left to not distract from the beautiful scenery, using a light golden font that still fits the romantic color scheme.

2. The Notebook opening Credits
In the opening of ‘The Notebook’ the camera slowly starts
fading in and shows the audience a landscape scenery view of a
river and the sun in the distance setting. The audience already gets some kind of
acknowledgment on what the genre is based about, as the colour scheme of
black, dark tones of red, warm yellows and vibrant orange are used to set the
tone which appears to be a romantic love film. Furthermore just from the opening
shot, significant scenery which the audience can recognize as something to
combine with the genre love, also adds to the calm, soothing atmosphere given
off from the first 15 seconds of the opening. The soundtrack plays a major role in
setting the tone, however just by the simple, soft, elegant, piano playing over the
beautiful sunset, vibes of love and deep emotions immediately is brought out
towards the audience and the
impact of just one setting shot and
light music creates the mood set for
this love film.

3. As we progress further into the opening, the
audience get shown a character gently rowing a
boat swiftly through the river. As only as the back is
shown from this character, bits are kept hidden from
the audience making them think who this person
could be. Its looks like a shadow as the lighting is warm and
quite hidden. Throughout the opening all the colour
scheme is kept constant to link with the genre. The credits
which is displayed on the screen, appears to all fade in on the
bottom left of the screen. Evermore the writing is fairly small
which suggests the main focus view is of the scenery in the
background. The colour of the font make makes it stand out
of the background as it’s a light
golden type of colour but however
still linking into the whole love colour
scheme.