It starts out by showing a black background. During this there is playing the non-diegetic sound of the piano playing a soothing tune. Then it fades into a beautiful wide angled shot of an orange/red sunrise in very warm colours. Which in some cases can mean blood and devil but here it means love.
When the sunset appears the name of the first actor appears ‘Ryan Gosling’ in the bottom left corner. It is written with a ‘thin’ font. It is written in a certain way that is to remind the audience of a notebook, which is the title of the movie, and what the whole movie is about. The fonts are continuous, with the same writing fading in and out, when it comes to 0.56 in the title sequence the writing switches from the left bottom corner to the right but is still subtle and doesn’t take any attention away from what is being shown to the audience.
The music is continuous. It is the soothing sound of a piano that is very romantic and calm which lets you take in the moment of the scenery you are shown through the camerawork. Aaron Zigman composes the music. In this part of the title sequence the piano is non-diegetic, but we later come to find that one of the main characters plays the piano so all this beauty we are shown ends up having us think about that character in a certain way.
The camerawork is very slow, with some very long shots. This is done to create atmosphere. So you feel like you are there in the moment and that you are ‘being allowed’ to take it in. It is filmed in a form of slow-motion, letting everything glide in to each other. The shot following the boat (0.36 to 0.45) is done so you’re actually following the person, not just ‘watching’ them sail. You feel like you are sailing as well, feeling the water pass you by. Again the sailing reappears later in the movie as well so when you watch it later unconsciously you will link it to this. The camera is panning (0.54 to 1.08) again to give you the feeling of the situation. You have two people in this shot the one person you can’t see, it is just a silhouette to keep your main focus on the scenery and the moment, so your mind doesn’t have to be bothered about thinking who that was.
Towards the end we get a long slow shot of some birds flying towards a house. Then it switches to an over the shoulder shot so we can see that there is a person looking from the house out on what we saw from the back and then it switches back to the birds. Then back to the woman where you can see then woman again and then the scene ends when the last bird has flown away.
Title Sequence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=558rexgg3ew
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