Endless Love Opening Sequence Analysis

The establishing shot is a close up of a young, long haired blonde who seems to be at her graduation. As the camera zooms out we see people in the background wearing blue graduations gowns and hats. It is evident she is a female and we can gather she is considerably young to be only just graduating. 

The camera rolls over to Gabriella Wild standing in the middle of a crowd gripping tightly to her scroll. The fact that she is standing at her graduation suggests she is of high status as she has the money to go to university and the education to graduate. There was merge editing switching through from her to other people celebrating then back to her standing on her own. Throughout the first few minutes we hear the non-diegetic sound of a male voice, narrating his feelings to what we assume to be about Jade Butterfield (Gabriella Wilde). We then see a close up of this man (Alex Pettyfer). Everyone we are able to see looks smartly dressed.

Once the graduation is over, it rolls to the two boys at work. Their work place is a huge restaurant which looks very posh and people are dressed smartly, this could imply that they are of high status to be able to get a job in such a high place. It is evident that these two characters are boys from their tone of voice and their short haircut. There is a brand new car that drives round the corner as they speak and you can hear the tyres gliding across the tarmac. In the car, there are ‘Jade’ and her family. The fact it is such a new car also suggest that they are very wealthy. Both of the men are wearing nice new watches which could also imply they are from a wealthy background.

Throughout the opening scenes, there is constant murmuring in the background from other graduates and it is asynchronous as we cannot see who or where the sound is coming from.