Easy A opening two minute analysis

The opening scene opens with a long shot of a school. This is effective as it shows the audience exactly where they are. Non- diegetic music begins to play. The music is happy and upbeat which suggests this is going to be a happy film and girly film. This is effective as the audience will know what type of film they are watching. Students begin to walk on screen with friends. This links with the music being happy as the students are happy also. As the scene continues we see more students come on screen with their friends. The scene is happy which again, shows the audience the film will be happy and funny.

The non-diegetic sound of Emma Stone's voice can now be heard speaking over the top of the scene. This is effective as the audience knows she is the main character as she is speaking about what is going on in the film. She is speaking about how she was anonymous and invisible. This links with the images we see on screen. We see the camera moving forward past people walking around the grounds of the school. This is effective because the way the camera is moving makes it seem like it is a person walking around, and as no one has looked at the camera it links with the fact she is saying how she was anonymous and invisible. She also says "Who am I?" which links with what the camera is doing. The camera begins to zoom in to people which gives the audience a false impression that the person they are moving the camera towards is the person speaking. However, the camera moves away at the last minute. This is effective as it makes the audience wonder who the person speaking is.

As the non-diegetic sound of Emma Stone's voice continues she says something about lying about "personal stuff". The audience will now be drawn into watching the rest of the film as they want to find out exactly what she was lying about and why she lied about it. As the camera begins to zoom in to a girl walking down a pathway the audience will get the impression that this is Emma Stone's character, Olive Pendergast. Also, because she says "I Olive Pendergast" the audience assumes this is the character. The camera follows this character for around 10 seconds until she bumps into another girl, causing her to fall to the ground. This is when the audience sees the character of Olive Pendergast for the first time.

The effectiveness of this scene is good because it makes the audience wonder who the character speaking is. The scene doesn't show one specific person until the end which leaves the audience wanting to continue watching to find out who the character is. The camera begins zooming in to people but doesn't actually zoom all the way in to make it a close up shot. This is effective because it makes the audience think that is the main character but then right at the end switches the shot to another person. This leaves the audience wondering who the character is and leaves them wanting to carry on watching.