Juno Title Sequence

The open titles for Reitman's critically acclaimed indie-comedy film, Juno, where hand craften by Shadowplay Studio.
As the title sequence starts we hear the music, "All I want is you to be my sweet honny bee, and if I was a tree growing tall and green, all Id want is for you to shave me and be my leaves", the lyrics in the song already suggest to the audiance (for exmaple myself) that the film is going
to have a romantic touch to it, maybe with some problems along the way. We see Juno walking down, what looks like, to be a subberban street holding a large bottle of "Sunny D" in her hands, and then she walks through a group of boys running down the road in some sort of uniform. You
would think that being a film aimed at teenages it would be bright and colourful out, almost as if the titles had be edited to be perficly coloured,and bright and happy, but in Juno, you can tell that is is a sunny day out but its still dark in the back ground, which does not suggest that she is a good mood as she bowls down the road.

Juno, and the street that she is walking down then all turns into cartoon images, these again not being very bright, all dark and nutral colours, very monotone, and the only thing with shadding in the title sequence, is Juno. The intremental for the playing again in the background. Next Juno
is standing at a cross road, with foreshaddows that there will be a dissions that she will have to make, she takes a mouthful of the "Sunny D" that she is holding in her hands and then we see her fidgiting feet, which could be portrating that she is nurvouse about something or thinking.
Behind the feet we see a pair of legs, exactly the same as the ones which are Juno's, walking down the road, we then see her from the waist down
swinging the "Sunny D" bottle by her side. Next we see Juno again, bowling down a road, Juno being the only part of the shot which does not look like it has been drawn, there is still an element of realism in her, like she is a photograph on a drawn background. The lyrics to the song which we first heard in the beging start playing again, suggesting that there may be a relationship with her and a boy, and they are "in love" and "JUNO" is flashing beside her in hand drawn black letters. The camera then moves upwards to see the top of a telegraph pole and small hand drawn birds flying in the dull bluey gray, cloudless sky.

We then see a closs of shot of Juno's gray face smiling, and then to a close up of her legs and feet walking down an outline of a white chair and acustic guitar, this again foreshaddowing that they both play a large part in the upcoming film, with her "Sunny D" bottle still swinging at her side.
Then we just see Juno walking down a road past houses, then turning down another road to walk past some shops, the scenery still being very dull, not much colour to anything, everything is the same, as if the writer of "Juno" is telling the audiance that life is boring, or that what ever in the background is boring, you have to make your life colourful and exiting yourself. Then as Juno is walking past a shop, its outlining starts to dissapear, as if it is deteriarating, foreshaddowing that something bad is going to happen and that everything will then "fall apart".
When Juno leaves the shot there is nothing left of the shop that she has just walked past, apart from the dull coffe colour and a few lines. We then see Juno standing infront of this, waiting to cross the road, and then behind her another shop is draw on to where the other one was, as if it is portraying that even though sometimes is may seem like everything is gone and the world is about to end, you can build your life back up and everything will be okay in the end. Juno moves closer in to the shot, then all we see is a close up of her hand unscrewing her "Sunny D" bottle, and then close up of her drinking it as she walks, but all we can see behind her is the dull colour of the sky, the only colour in the shot is coming from her red jumper. Next there is a birdseye few of Juno walking down a beige pavement, and the dull colour of the sky/background surrounding that pavement, she then looks up at the camera and has a smerk on her face.
She walk out the shot and then into another one where she is walking along a park, the only colour being her, the dark green of the grass and then we see the boys in their running outfits funny along the grass, infront of the outline of white drawn trees. The shot changes to see her walking down the road from behind, and the boys running past her again, this tells us that one, of not more, of these boys plays a main part in the film.
For the next few shots they are the same as the first, Juno is walking down a very bland road, we switch from seeing her from behind, to her feet, to her
side, and then a close up of her face with a smirk on it, then back to seeing her walking down a road where all we can see is the out line of a boy on a skate board, a few trees and a shop, it all being the same coffee colour brown - the shot then changes to gradually being back to normal, but the last thing to change from being drawn into the film is Juno, we see a young boy and girl standing outside this shop and Juno walks in, still with her overly large "Sunny D" in her hand.