Task 2.1: Romantic Comedy Film Intro Analysis - 500 Days Of Summer

The movie starts off with the two main characters sitting on a bench in a park and the audience has no clue to why. The camera starts off in an establishing shot of the city whilst the two have there back to the camera on the bench. It then cuts to a medium shot of them two looking off into the distance - a convention of romantic comedies is usually a man and a woman in a relationship, so whilst the audience doesn't know what's going on, they can still assume that they are in a romantic relationship.

There is a cliche voice over as the introduction goes on explaining about the character's beliefs in love and how different they were - another convention.
A long shot of the main character is shown and the camera slowly zooms in, then it does the same thing again but this time on a teenage boy. The audience connotes from this that these two people are the same person as the camera shot is done in the same way.
The next shot of the other character is shown in a medium shot whilst she is on the phone talking to someone and the camera also zooms in, like it did with the other person. Except, when a teenage version of herself is shown, instead of zooming into a long shot of her like they did with the man, they instead zoom in from her back whilst she looks in the mirror.
This is done to show the parallels of the two characters as one is doing something and the other is sitting staring into space.

When the man looks to his right, the camera then quickly pans to the girl walking through the office and does a close up of her. This could be done to show that she has no idea what's about to happen in her life before she meets him.

The non-diegetic music in the background is done to sound like some sort of fairy tale. This is an ironic use of it and it's also done to sound cliche. But it is also something that romantic comedies do in order for it to sound like it's true love - like a princess and a prince.