Titanic - Opening scene

Titanic 

Titanic is a love/romance film between two main characters, they go on a boat and fall in love. There is a big difference between them both, the women Rose is from a rich and wealthy family and is traveling to America to get married. The man jack is a poor person who is traveling on the boat to go and get work in America. They then talk to each other and start to get to know each other, eventually they fall in love. Unfortunately the boat hits an iceberg half way during the trip, it splits the ship open and makes water poor into the bottom of the ship. It then eventually splits in two pieces and sinks too the bottom of the Atlantic. The film tells the story of how the boat sank accept with a bit of a love Story. It is the second most profitable film in 2014 after avatar, back in 1997 it was number one for a long time until 2009. 

Character 

The characters that are in are very different to each other, you can tell that they are different because of the way they are dressed. Rose the female character s a rich and wealthy character who is getting married to wealthy man in America. She is wearing very posh clothes, which makes her stand out from the crowd. She also arrives to the boat in a car which was a very expensive thing to do, plus cars where very rare back then and were only usually seen driven by rich people. The male character
is called jack and he is a poor person who is a poor person who is going to do some work in America. You can tell that he is a poor person because of the clothes he is wearing, they are like they are made out of cloth. It also makes you think that he only has a few clothes to wear and that they are his best clothes because it is quite a rich thing to do to travel on a fairy across the Atlantic. So when he wearing clothes which look poor he stand out from the rich people and is treated like a peasant because of how people were treated back then. You can tell that they are going to be the main characters because of the way they are introduced. Rose comes out of a car with servants helping her and Jack is already there helping to get people ready for the journey.  Another character to analyse is Roses husband, he looks like he is a very smart an wealthy businessman, you can tell by the way he is dressed he is wearing a grey suit, which is considered to be a wealthy style. So he could be in the first or business class at the time. He also looks quite mean and evil he could be stereotyped as a villain because he has a very posh English accent which could be why people think he is mean or evil.

Sound

The sound is used in a great way for the first half of the it is the music which is playing. It sounds like a bright and happy song to play as it is introducing something amazing back in their time. It does get a lot more jolly as they move a long with the scene because it is showing more of the Titanic and how big and impressive it is.  For example when the man gets out of the car the music gets more louder and happier when it shows them looking at the ship. This is to make the audience think just how amazing and big the actual boat is in comparison to other ships at the time. It then goes on to the diegetic sound for example when the man is speaking to Rose. Rose doesn't seem to be impressed with the ship because later on she says its like being in a slave ship, this is to show that she is not happy getting on with her husband because she is being forced to marry him.  The man seems to be mean and evil to her and like he is treating her badly, he might only want to marry her because she comes from a wealthy family and only wants to be rich and spend all of their money. You can also here all of the background sounds to improve the atmosphere of the area. You can hear all of the car
horns and people talking which brings a good atmosphere to the scene it makes it sound very realistic. 

Camera Angle

An establishing shot is used to introduce the titanic in it glory, it does this by showing the titanic when it is sunk at the bottom but then as the camera is panning right it changes the look of the titanic to its original form. The shot is a long shot which shows a good chunk of the ship so that the audience has a good chance to see what the titanic looks like. A close up is used on the women Rose to see what her reaction and facial expressions are like when she looks at the boat. This gives the audience an idea of what people actually feel like about the boat, most of the shots show that they are happy and excited to go on the boat, however since rose is the main character in the film they do a close up of how she feels. Another example of a close up is when the man gets out of the car, it shows him as very happy and amazed by the boat because he might not of seen anything like this before. Since it was such a big deal at the time most people were very happy at the time, and were excited to get on. A over the shoulder shot is used when Rose and her fiance are speaking, she says " I don't see what all of the fuss is about", this is used because it shows the ship in the background and the two in front of it, it shows just how big the ship is in comparison to the couple. It makes it look like it is a giant achievement and people have created history, because this would be remembered for ever.

Props/Costumes/Mise-en-Scene

The props and costumes are used very well in this scene. At first the clothes which are worn are mostly rich people who are wearing dressed which are made of expensive fabric. They are wearing different colored clothes to show that they are rich. There is also males who are wearing grey and black suits this also shows that they are wealthy this might be because they own a business which is very successful and has made them a lot of money. There also looks like there are middle class people there who own a shop and earn a decent amount of money, enough to let them go on the ship. The props are good as well for example they have old cars on the road, it shows just how long ago it was. You can tell that it was a long time ago because they look like they are one of the first cars to be made, which only rich people would have.