Children's Film Opening Sequence - Adventure

For our opening sequence review we looked at the opening sequence for Toy Story. We classified the film as a Children's Adventure.


Some of the main characters in the film are introduced from the beginning (e.g. Woody). However they are not introduced in an animated fashion but rather showing Andy (the owner of the toys) playing with them. We think that this is so that it comes to be a real surprise when Woody starts moving without Andy controlling him. This could be a real surprise to a child who has no idea what is meant to happen in the film. This scene also helps to relate with Andy and help us find out what the other characters are like, for example while playing, Woody is out across as a hero, so the audience sees him as the good guy.


The camerawork in the film doesn't get used to portray a lot but certain characters are shown in different powers, such as Pork when he is on the window sill he is shown at a very low angle, which could show his high power whereas the microphone toy is shown at a high angle and he is portrayed to sit in the corner, showing him to be weaker and less important than the others.

The editing style of the film is Continuity Editing so as to keep the scene flowing, also to make the scene run smoothly cuts are used.


For the sound, a non-digetic sound track of the song 'You've got a Friend in Me' is played, this song is very upbeat and gets the idea of friendship coming to the minds of the audience which wants to make them smile at the clip. 


The mise-en-scene's setting is mainly used to introduce the clip's surroundings and show what the toys have to live in and what normally happens on a daily basis for them with Andy playing with them trying to make his own scenarios (like his robbery scene from the movie), this is a stereotypical thing that children like to do.