1st Textual Analysis: Control

The opening Sequence starts off with the production names of the film, it then zooms in to fade in and out. The film was filmed in black and white all through . The scene starts off with a medium close-up of a young teenager with a voice over the scene, tthis tells the audience what his thinking in his mind, The camera then zooms out into a master shot showing the audience the location of the scene( his bedroom). After that, the scene cuts to the Title of the film ''Control'' (Font: Dotum, Size: 48, Colour: white and black in the background). The title flashes for a few seconds and then fades out to an establishment shot of house of flat with a superimpose showing the audience the year and location of the scene. We then see a long shot showing the young young teenager walking in a park , this is followed by a diegetic sound of people playing football at the background, A wide shot is then taking showing a kid saying ''Pass me the ball'', he ignores him and walks pass. Has he walks pass, Non- Diegetic music of strings of guitar is played, it then begins to build up with other instruments like the drums and piano, as he gets neaerer to the house of flats. A medium of shot of a man reading a newspaper is shown, followed by a match on action of him at the door, the man then says ''Alright there'', he again ingnores the man.

In the opening sequence, mainly the production and distribution companies is shown, we also see the main charcter of the film with his family, we also see the year of the scene . The opening sequence doesnt show us the much about the film, it only tells us that, something or an issue is disturbing the teenager, this makes the audience very anxious to know what is wrong with him(Narrative Code). You could see that the film is mainly drama in genre.