Just Like Heaven Opening Sequence

Just like heaven by 'Dream Works'.

The film starts with a soundtrack named 'just like heaven' this is played over the iconic 'Dream Works' logo the song has a gentle romantic and dreamy tune enlightening the audience of the genre of film they are watching. The audience would pick up on the genre through the music as it fits that of a typical Rom-Com.
The camera tilts down through the Dream Works clouds into the film. As the camera travels through the sky pink, purple and yellow coloured titles fade in and fade out onto the screen, these colours are very typically 'girly' and resemble that of a Rom com film.

The view then comes to a fairy tale looking lady sitting on a chair in a place that resembles that of some peoples opinions of heaven with warm coloured flowers and areas of clouds. After the camera pans around the lady the song lyrics reflect the onscreen action when it says the word 'dream' a hand shakes the woman's shoulder to wake her from the dream. There is a jump cut which takes us from the 'heavenly' scene to the 'real world'.


The lady wakes up and we see her wearing a doctor/nurses uniform, she looks worn out with messy hair in a rough ponytail and with little effort made with her appearance, this could be because she doesn't have time to make an effort or she doesn't care about what the people at work think of her. After she wakes up her life goes from the artificial dream world her brain had created to reality-a rushed and hectic hospital. We hear later on in the scene a fellow doctor say that she'd been working for 23 hours and at 26 hours she was sent home this shows that she is a workaholic. In a scene at the hospital a conversation between the lady (Elizabeth) and some of her co-workers where we learn furthermore about her personality and that she doesn't have a great social life and that the 'workaholic' lifestyle takes its toll on her love life. We hear through the dialogue that she is single we then see her through an over the shoulder shot in the mirror putting lipstick on this could be because she feels like she needs to make more of an effort in order to get her social life back on track.