This is the opening two minutes to Harry Potter. Straight away we find out the genre of Harry Potter being fantasy, mystery and magic we know this because we see Dumbledore who we do not know so we see a guy in robes with a little button that sucks the lights into it showing abnormal or magic so we know it will be different and fantasy. We also know that it is magic because we see a cat turn into a person, this is a classic magician trick shown in movies as its not possible in real life and shows magic strongly. We also see a flying motorbike which obviously isn't in real life so we assume that is not going to based in real life and will be fantasy.
Some key questions were left asking are who are these people? Why do they look so out of place? Why is the little boy Harry Potter going to be famous? We ask these questions so we feel the need to watch the movie to answer these questions. We also find out a few things in these opening 2 minutes for example we find out that this baby is going to be the main character when he is older as his name is Harry Potter. We also find out that there teachers of some sort as they call each other professor and there surname. We also find out that where ever there dropping Harry Potter at the only family he has suggesting that his actually family is gone or maybe dead. The final thing we find out is the woman says " there won't be a child in our world that doesn't know his name" notice how she says our world meaning that they have a totally different world to normal people or muggles as we also hear them say.
The non diegetic music we hear straight away sounds very magical and mysterious fitting with the genre and really stands out the genre perfectly. The diegetic sounds we hear are the swooshing from the light being absorbed this adds effect because it makes it feel more real. We also hear the motorbike noises coming from the flying motorbike this adds effect as it shows its still a motorbike but they have added some sort of magical ability to the bike so it can fly. Some camera shots that are effective to me are the close up of baby Harry Potter revealing the scar on his forehead showing this could be of some significance. Another effective camera shot is the long shot of Hagrid landing the bike i think this is effective as it shows true magic and we now know for certain that this is a fantasy magic genre.
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