Pete Docter Opening Scene Analysis

For my analyzing movie scene essay, I choses the first four minutes opening scene of the widely popular animated movie that won two award at the 82nd academy award, this movie is releases on 2009 and it name is up. Up is categorized as a fantasy, comedy-drama type of movie, but the four five minutes of this movie is critical because it totally contradicted the comedy genre that the director set, it also sum up the reason why the main character of the movie Carl possess a dull personality that he depicted in the beginning of the movies, and the reason why he went on the adventure, without this scene, the movie would lost it charm and it would left why the audience pondering why Pete Docter choses elderly as the main character when the mainstream main character for an animated movie today usually in their teen or a monster. The first five minutes of this scene also have some fore shadowing that will correlate to the future scene. The cinematography, the lighting, and especially the music that Docter use for this scene had bring out the true history of Carl and his regret after Ellie died.
The scene start out, with a harmonic and upbeat music that compose by an

Italian descent whose win a numerous award Michael Giacchino, then the camera angles zooming out to showing a smiling young Carl that is ready for his wedding with his child hood love Ellie, Ellie family were very happy as the camera immediately show the celebratory reaction of her family when she kiss Carl, but on the contrary, Carl family were not quite fond of his decision, the camera immediately show theirs unsastifactory reaction.

The lighting technique that Docter used in the first half of this scene was the high key lighting technique, this technique aim is to reduce the lighting ratio in the present of a scene, the purpose of this

technique is to create an upbeat environment as prove when the scene transition from the wedding chapel to the outside world, as Carl carry Ellie to their first house, the camera zoom out to show a bright blue sky and below that is an old house that Carl and Ellie purchased, then the camera zoom in during the process of building the house, especially Carl and Ellie happy expression, as it symbolize the joyful time that any newlywed couple would experience. In this scene, Docters also make use of symbolism, it occur during the conversation of Carl and Ellie when they have their picnic, the camera zoom out to show Carl going up to the mountain as Ellie called him to hurry up, then the camera zoom immediately zoom into both Carl ad Ellie delightful expression as they talking to each other, while Ellie talking, she also do some bizarre hand movement then instantly, the camera show the sky that shape like a turtle, and also in this same sequence, the sky suddenly turned into figure of a baby as the camera show Carl astonish but happy expression as it indicated it time for them to have a child. Because of the way Docter used the lighting technique, the way he used the music, and how he use the camera technique to show the expression of the main character, Docter manage to trick the audience. Because as the scene slowly transition, the happy and harmonic music suddenly got replace by a slow melancholy music and the environment that surround them become dark as Ellie find out that she can’t get a child, after that the camera zoom into the a sad expression of young Carl as he looked at his wife, then the music started to be a little bit up beat against as Carl try to encourage his wife as he gave her the adventure book that he had keep a long time, from that, the music started to be in constant relaxing state as the times went by, both Carl and Ellie had grows old as the camera zoom into the different kind of tie that Carl had wear. Then the camera zoom into Carl and his wife and the music is basically tell the story of the time Carl and his wife spent their times together in their old age. Then the camera suddenly zoom into