SoundEG4: Bridget Jones's Diary

Bridget Jones's Diary 
Sharon Maguire, 2001
Production: Miramax Films; Universal Pictures; StudioCanal; Working Title Films; Little Bird.
Budget: $26m; US box office: $71.6m
RottenTomatoes.com 81%; IMDB 6.7




SUMMARY/IDEAS I MIGHT USE:


Idents:

Universal Studios 
Studio Canal
Miramax Films 
Working Title - audio bridge - flute plays - non diegetic sound 
womans voices starts - middle aged - narrator - sarcasm and slightly fed up tone 
dialogue continues throughout opening between herself narrating with the occasional dialogue from mother 

Sound - Denotations:

christmas music starts - upbeat jolly tunes - non diegetic sound however this then fades and becomes diegetic sound
door closes - diegetic sound
older woman starts to talk to middle aged woman - her mum 
background music and inaudiable chatter

Opening Scene: 

opens on medium shot of bridget as she walks past in the snow - blonde middle aged naive woman quite shy - lost - no purpose? 


Opening Scenes: 

binary opposites:
 
man - woman - bridget and mr darcy 
urban - hometown - london - countryside - parents live - rurual 
dominant - mum bossing her around trying to find her a boyfriend - sparking tension between her and mr darcy 
submissive - bridget - on her own no one to sympathise with but her dad - actually likes mr darcy and isnt like all the others her mum usually picks out for her or chooses