Analysis of opening 2 minutes of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

• Harry Potter is a feature film series based on the Harry Potter novels by author J. K. Rowling. The Goblet of Fire is the fourth film out of eight.

•  The film starts with the Warner Brothers’ logo coming out of the darkness. The logo looks shiny silver and is reflecting smoke and mist, we edge nearer and nearer to the logo. This gives a scary feel as if something is going to be behind the logo and is fast approaching. The music is bold and deep with small sharp high notes.

•  As we pass through the logo, we see bones and skulls which represents death and decay. This could also symbolise that the films are becoming more intense and perhaps not a kids film anymore. A snake then comes out of the skull’s mouth and slithers away, it whispers in another language. Snakes represent evil and sin. We follow the snake in an effective camera angle, seeing from only the snakes point of view. 

• The scene seems to be set in a graveyard which adds to the frightening atmosphere, this could also foreshadow a death later in the film.

• The camera then rises to see a statue that is a skelton with a stick and the build up to seeing this statue tells us that we might be seeing it later on in the film. The camera then rises above the statues head and we see ‘Harry Potter’ as the theme song starts to play in a scary and quite frightening way and not the way we saw in the first couple of films. 

•  Out of the mist, we see “and the Goblet of Fire” under Harry Potter. We then go through the name and see houses in a small village. A light turns on in the house, so we know someone is inside, however it is very quiet. 

• The gloomy and eery atmosphere is something I want to replicate in our film, as our film is a thriller so this would be effective to set the scene.