The opening credits start off with a close up shot of the main character 'Juno' drinking a large bottle of sunny D, as she removes the bottle from her mouth the backing music begins to play - 'All I want is you' by Barry Louis Polisar. This is a very happy and 'bouncy' song which lets the audience know that this is going to be a happy, comedy film with certain aspects of love involved because of the lyrics. As the music begins, we see the character walkin from a 180 degree angle, this helps show the setting of the film and also the clothing of the character which the audience can the establish what sort of characteristics 'Juno' has. A group of high school runners then come running past from the other direction. As she walks behind a tree an effect has been put on which makes everything appear as though it has been turned into a cartoon drawing, this is where we see the first credit which says who is presenting this. Whilst the character is walking around we see extreme close ups of her feet and some of the credits appear beside letter by letter.
In the second section the camera is angled straight infront so it looks as though Juno is walking to the camera. This is a long shot which emphasises that Juno is the main character as the audience have nothing else to look at other than her as she almost fills the screens height. To the right side of the image we see the title appear 'JUNO' which is written in a cartoon style, this keeps to the overall effect of the credits. The credit 'JUNO' also flashes different colours which draws the audiences eyes to focus on the title.
Moving on to the third section we see a medium shot angled at the main character as she continues with her day with the acrtesses name credited next to it, 'Ellen Page'. The shot then changes to a 180 degree rule and just shows the waist down of the character walking. The background is very light but yet has a lot of detail which is related back to in the film, for instance in this shot we can see a rocking chair and a guitar next to the credits 'Michael Cera' this could be implying to the audience that this is where character played by that actor is living and shows that one of his hobbies is playing the guitar. The camera then rises straight up so that the audience can see the other credit.
It is almost like a jump cut to get to the fourth section as the character is moving in the same way but the scenery has changed along with the angle. This draws attention to the editing which could make the audiences focus be slightly disorientated, however I personally think that it is a clever transition in which to show different angles and focus' on the screen. As Juno walks down the street the camera stays where it is, as Juno walks further down the path letters appear on the fence which create another credit. We still see Juno drinking a large amount of sunny D, due to the fact that it appears all the time in the credits it is most likely going to be an important part of the film.
In the fifth clip there is a medium close of middle section of the Juno's body, credits for who did the casting appears on the left hand side, however the focus is still on the Sunny D bottle. The camera then appears to swivel to the left which then all of a sudden is Juno's top half, this is should be quite disorientating however because the effect of the credits are like a cartoon drawing it is not.
This sixth clip is my favourite as it is a birds eye view as we see Juno looking directly up at the leaves falling down to where she is walking. As the leaves fall the camera zooms onto Juno which gives the effect that it too is falling like the leaves. As the camera is doing this the credits on the left hand side appear, however they do not bigger as the camera zooms like you would expect them to. The angle is then changed in a swift movement to a 180 degree rule again, this allows the audience to see a wider view of the scenery and to take notice of the credits before Juno begins to walk by and distract them again.
The runners from the last clip that were going in the opposite direction to juno then 'run onto' the next clip past her as she walks towards her. So far there is not much continuity going on with the shots but I think this is the great thing about these opening credits, they're not sticking to the normal 'Hollywood', this could be showing that the director does not want to have to adhere to the way things 'should' be done in order to succeed. Some more credits appear on the right hand side of her as the camera shot is focused from behind. Once the boys have started to run off of the screen the angle then becomes tilted towards the floor, this makes the audience think that this is the characters point of view however when the camera rises we then go back to seeing a shot from behind of Juno as more credits appear above her head. Unlike the earlier bits in the clips near the end of this section Juno's body is moving forward but the scenery is suggesting that she isn't going anywhere as that is not changing. This could be for the audience to take in who the executive producers are, this could imply that they feel that they are more important then everyone else on the credits as they have pretty much had to stop the footage in order for their credits to appear.
Moving onto the eighth clip, the camera has stayed in one spot and is filming juno walk towards it and past it, complared to a lot of the footage already looked at, this is a very smooth transition from one position to the next, as the camear is turning more credits appear. The camera then films all of Juno's body walking in sections starting from her feet ending up on her face.
Finally the last clip is the ending of the last but with the credits of the directors name 'Jason Reitman' appearing to the right hand side of the characters face. As Juno walks back into reality and the song decends there is digetic sound on screen as the cartoon effect on the credits fade off and go back to reality. This is a very good way of showing that film is now going to begin as has the same effects of the beginning of the credit and also one of the key focus' (the Sunny D bottle) has now been chucked away which signifies the start of something new for the audience to focus on.
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