Fargo Storyboard

Fargo didn't really please my standards of a film. The opening sequence totally bored me and I switched off when watching it. The reason I thought this is because the scenes and shots were very dull and the colours seemed to be all the same, a white and light blue colour. Also some of the shots on the road took around 8 - 10 seconds to finish, and staring at the same thing isn't very pleasant.

Although I did not like the opening sequence, it did have a good use of mise-en scene throughout the start. For example, in the snow it was just a blank white screen, but then the fog disappeared and you began to see the fog lights of a car from a distance and it was on the right side of the shot and not central, so it shows the director has thought about this when filming it. By having the car on the right hand side, it allows the viewers to look around the area.

The other thing about this I liked was the credits that came up on screen, because they faded in from the snow and appeared in a multiple of places like bottom right, or bottom left etc. The font colour was black which contrasted nicely with the white/blue background and the lettering was very spacial, so it filled the majority of the screen. I may steal this idea for my own film because it's a very modern trick and looks nice across the screen.