No. 11 - Key Screen Shots From Film Opening

The Holiday Key Shots
• Key Shot 1
   The first shot is of a couple coming together and passionately kissing and this is at the very start portraying the theme of love and happiness.
 • Key Shot 2
   This is soon after the first key shot as it had zoomed out showing that what we had previously seen was not from the plot of this film and is perhaps suggesting that The Holiday is going to be different and that happiness will not come as easy.
 • Key Shot 3
   This is important as it is the Title of the film and it fades in the shot transition sweeps a black screen in from the right in the direction that the car then follows in which Amanda (Cameron Diaz) is sitting.
 • Key Shot 4
   This is an important shot in the opening as it I introducing one of the main characters and how her relationship with her partner is going downhill. A close-up is used to allow us to become familiar with and feel sympathetic for this character.
 • Key Shot 5
   This is the first long distance establishing shot showing that the characters in the car are set in America. This is important to know as the film is set in two places America and Britain and the English accent of the voice over by Iris (Kate Winslet) had already established the English setting.
 • Key Shot 6
   This is a key close up which introduces a cheeky character which the audience grow to love, Graham (Jude Law) as he establishes a relationship with Amanda. He is in a bar in this shot making eye contact with a girl who he had noticed – this is part of a shot/reverse shot.
 • Key Shot 7
   This is the first time we see the character, Iris, who is doing the voice over and it sums her up by having her facing away from the camera and being surrounded by her work.
 • Key Shot 8
   This is a close up of Iris which matches with the voice-over as if it is what is being said in her mind at this very moment. It shows her being made to be miserable at the sight of the person she loves because she knows that she is not loved back and this is key to the plot. Her emotion is shown in her eyes and her hand gesture and we have established that this love interest is from her work as she is in her work environment when she sees him.
 • Key Shot 9
   This is the moment when the voice-over finishes and the dialogue begins.