Lizzie mcguire analysis

The Lizzie Mcguire movie title sequence analysis

This title sequence uses the main character (Lizzie Mcguire) giving the audience a taster into her personality and what the film will be about. The choice of the music, Atomic Kitten's 'The tide is high, used throughout fits in with the genre which is comedy. It is also a well known song which will appeal to the films target audience which is teenagers. Names of the actors and characters are edited over the top through the clip. 

There are cuts to a cartoon version of Lizzie Mcguire which keeps appearing. This makes the clip more fun and represents what she is thinking, again suited to the target audience.This character is immediately shown to have bad luck from the start as a sheet falls on her. Luck and fortune are the main themes in our title sequence. Lizzie is shown to be like a typical teenage girl not finding anything to wear, this appeals to the target audience as they will be able to relate to it because they will probably do the same. 

The mise en scene is used to show the actors names in different ways by the cartoon character, for example on a scarf she throws out of a drawer and on a jacket she zips up. This is an example of using mise en scene cleverly to keep the audience interested and show the names in a variety of different ways so they fit in with the title sequence and the main film instead of just being written normally.

Lizzie is dancing around and singing to the song in her room, it is shown as though she doesn't know the cameras are there as it is supposed to look like it is her annoying little brother who is filming her with a remote control toy car. This adds to the humour, adhering to the comedy genre while also appealing to the target audience as most of them will probably have an annoying little sibling. This also gives an incite into what his character will be like in the film.

This builds up suspense for the audience in the narrative of the title sequence as they don't know what is going to happen, she may find out about her brother or not. This keeps the audience interested and entertained so they want to carry on watching. The title sequence ends in Lizzie falling in the bath and the cartoon Lizzie falling on soap, showing the bad luck this character has. She then see's the toy car and the music fades out for the film to start.