Analysis of Peter Pan

Peter Pan

Peter Pan is a classic children's movie in the opening scene we get introduced to the main character Peter Pan and his cute little fairy friend Tinkerbell who flies there way in to the town. This makes the audience who are a smaller generation of people e.g from the age of 1-11 as it is very child like with magical features which the children will love. Peter Pan is a mischievous boy who can fly and never grows up, Peter Pan spends his never ending childhood having adventures on the small island of Neverland as the leader of his gang, the Lost Boys, interacting with mermaids, Native American, fairies, pirates, and occasionally ordinary children from the world outside Neverland. The location is in a town where Peter meets 3 children who he makes them fly and takes them to Neverland and lets them into the life of Peter Pan. The main character in the opening is obviously Peter Pan and his friend Tinkerbell ,the audience expect to see Peter in the opening scene as he is the main character in the films his name is the title of the film. The little girls in this film will bound to like the character Tinkerbell as she is girly,cute and mysterious and everyone loves her. 

The sound in the film is non-diegectic sound which is visible to the screen. The first minute you hear a magical sound this is is sound effects been used this shows the audience that the film is going to be something magical. At the end of the opening scenes the music gets more thrilling and exciting and magical as the title of the film get reveled. It gets the children exciting as the opening scene builds up to the film properly starting and it is exciting for them especially if they love Peter Pan.The body language between Peter Pan and Tinkerbell is very friendly and they are happy and comfortable around each other and they make the audience excited to see them as they are two of the main characters

The shots used in opening scene are there is a camera zooming out from a cloud and transfers into a long shot of the sky which is a dark blue colour with sparkly stars to make even more magical. The camera then follows the movement of Tinkerbell flying to Peter this is called tracking. When she reaches Peter the camera goes into a close up shot, this shows Peter and Tinkerbell's facial expressions and how happy they are to see each other.Finally right at the end it goes into a low shot of a girl looking up into the sky. Overall Peter Pan is an all round great children's film with magical funny moments that children love and it makes the audience feel happy and the love they have for Peter and Tinkerbell