Opening sequence to 101 dalmatians

The Walt Disney film 101 dalmatians is an adventure/fantasy film appropriate for young children as it includes a young person's humour.

At the beginning of the sequence the name of the film along with the producer's, director's and character's names are titled over the establishing shot of the location, this introduces the destination of where the story is set.

The first character introduction within the opening sequence is the dog Pongo, his name is introduced as he clicks on his owner's computer. The second character to be introduced is the owner of Pongo, he is first shown laying in bed and we are shown Pongo waking him up. This immediately makes us aware that Pongo is trained to wake him up each morning. We also gain an insight of both characters personality as we can tell straight away that the owner is lazy and is also child-like as he cannot wake himself up. We can also tell that Pongo is very intellectual for a pet dog.

We are introduced to the location straight away by different ways as Pongo, the dog enters many rooms of the house to do different things. This gives us an idea of the rooms in the house and what they have in them. We can tell that the main location is their home town as we are shown a zoom in of the town and then their street. Later on we are shown Pongo and his owner sitting in their local park, there is shown different camera angles on the different people walking around the park.

We are also shown an insight to the story from the opening sequence as the dog is represented as the dominating character in the story, he is shown as very independent (more than his owner) as the clip clearly shows his role around the house; doing the housework and helping his owner. We are shown that Pongo loves his owner, this makes us feel that Pongo is equal to his owner. We can see a clear loving relationship between the owner and pongo.