Opening 2 mins of a film: Love Actually

In the opening 2 minutes of "Love Actually" Directed by Richard Curtis, we discovered:

• The opening titles are accompanied by a voice over, this creates an enigma, as you know nothing about this person; you do not know what they look like, who they are, what is their background story etc. and so this makes the audience want to continue to watch, to find out more about this character.
• The voice over also fits with the visuals, eg. "mothers and daughters" fits with visuals of what the audience assumes are a mother an daughter greeting each other. This has the effect of drawing the audiences attention, as they are both seeing and hearing what the voice-over is saying, so they are intrigued and pulled into the film.
• There is a slow motion effect on some of the clips. This helps to slow down what would normally be a very quick process, someone running to hug a love one, so that the audience has a chance to see what is happening and take it in. It also creates a calming mood for the audience, and romanticises the clips, which then contrasts with the comedic scene that follows, which results in a greater effect of the comedy aspect of this "Rom-com"
• The actors names in the credits are in alphabetical order, with the first letter of each name in red, eg. Alan Rickman. This shows the audience that no single actor is more important that another, and so it is going to be more of an ensemble film, rather than just focused on one single character.
• The use of red font is also used when what the voice over is saying is written out at the bottom of the screen. The words that are written are "Love Actually is All Around" The highlight of the word "is" could be representative of a heart, similar to way that a heart is written between two peoples names, to represent that they are in love,  as "is" is in between two other words.
• The use of the colour red is also effective as it has connotations with love and passion.
• As the letters fade out, the last word to disappear is "love" this could hint to the audience that the key theme of the film is going to be love.