Series Of Unfortunate Events.

Conventions of a childrens opening sequence.
Narrative:
- Introduces characters and their personalities and interests (signifies possible events within the narrative)
- Starts conventionally and then immediately changes to darkness. This is going against convention which is usually a happy start, but in this film we get a dark and moody feeling.
- Refers to family secrets, and suggests that we will find out what they are.
- The narrative will be mainly focused on the children.

Characters:
- They don't conform to the stereotypes of typical childrens film
- Introduction - the children do not talk
- you see them from the back initially when they are introduced
- Old fashion clothes (sets time period)
- Children are very clever:- the boy reads and remembers all the books he reads
- the older girl invents things
- The children are very wealthy and a close family unit.

Genre:
- Hybrid (which is a mixture of more than one genre)
- Adventure: - when they become orphans
- discover the family secrets
- Horror (unconventional): - house was burnt down
- graveyard
- creepy man
- Fantasy: - lack of realism
- the flower that grows immediately
- Comedy - when the young baby is biting on the table
-Romance?

Atmosphere:
- Elf scene - happy, humorous. The music is upbeat, joyful, laughing and singing.
- Sudden change to gloomy and dark - dark lighting, low key lighting, gloomy, fog.
- Eery music made an uneasy atmosphere.
- The existence of the contrast between the happy beginning and the dark change, makes the change to the dark bit seem even more dark and worse.

Themes:
- Sense of family - referred to as a group (by their surname) - closeness
- Love (siblings)
- Secrets and mystery of the characters when they are introduced as you only see the back of them, also when the children look around the house once it's been burned down, and find secret objects.
- Overcoming the tragedy of losing their parents.