Quadrophenia deconstruction notes.

Fade in from black to a long shot of two men walking over a hill against the sunset, the men are in silhouette against the sunset, this therefore creates enigma as we cannot see who they are. There is mysterious music in the background, diagetic sounds of the sea, non diagetic sounds of birds.

The music fades in quickly and then fades back out again. We hear more diagetic sounds of leaves crunching. Through out all of this there is shill the long shot of the men still walking. Then there is a close up of the sunset. Then the footage cuts into one of the men riding a motorbike, there is upbeat rock music. The titles zoom in over the footage, titles are in yellow writing to stand out against the action. Titles are fast fast paced to fit with the action of the man on the motorbike and the past pace of the music. Voice over the music from the main character over music which is slightly faded down in order for the voice over to be heard. Music fades out with a black fade out. This is an effective film opening as the upbeat music is effective as it creates an excited feel to the opening. Another effective aspect is how the characters has been established, through out the opening sequence we can clearly see who the main character is as he is presented whilst the titles are being show and he is in the main focus through the sequel. One aspect for improvement would be to show more characters to create further enigma.