Children's Film Analysis

I chose the opening sequence to the Simpsons movie. The opening where there is a concert on the lake suggests that the films plot will be based around the pollution in the lake and the people of Springfield littering on the lake. This is shown by the bad bringing up the environment and then their boat gets dissolved by the lake. This happens while the people of Springfield throw rubbish at them. The opening sequence also gives clues to the main characters and their personalities by focusing on them in the shot of what they are doing. For example the highlight the character Miss Krabaple on someone's shoulders with a t-shirt saying 'he is not my boyfriend'. this shows she might be desperate ore single. The the clues for the main character Homer Simpson are given by having his voice stand in a quite room, making a fool of himself and too make it worse he was talking about Jesus outside the church. This gives us a clue that he will regularly do stuff like this which could be linked to the narrative. Comical conventions such as one of the band members being hit in the crotch by a rock shows that the film is a slapstick comedy. The mood is shown to be layed back in the town by all of the towns people are at the concert.