Opening Sequence Analysis - The Lost Boys

(Directed by Joel Schumacher)

1. Opens with the Warner Brothers institution logo. (Distributor) 
2. Music fades in. (Non Diegetic) 
3. There is also the sound of a male laughing and the sound of whispering. 
4. Fast moving establishing shot travelling over the sea as the music kicks in even more.
5. Some credits appear over the top of this shot. (The order of the credits are: Warner Bros. presents, a Richard Donner Production, a Joel Schumacher film, the the title of the film appears).
6. The camera then tilts upward slightly to reveal the town which the film is set in. This is another establishing shot.
7. The camera is travelling towards the town from a bird's eye perspective which gives the impression that we (the audience) is observing the town. 
8. Cuts to a medium shot of a merry-go-round and a crowd of people.
9. The camera quickly zooms over the heads of the crowd to get a closer view of the merry-go-round.
10. Cuts to a mid shot looking downwards at the character David's feet. The sound of the merry-go-round comes in. (Diegetic)  The camera tilts up and then stops at David's face. This shot shows the David is one of the main characters.
11. The camera stays in this position as David walks out of the shot and David's gang move into the shot. 
12. The camera then cuts to a medium shot of David while he touches a woman on the merry-go-round's face.  
13. Cut to a Mid CU shot of the woman's boyfriends reaction. 
14. Cuts back to previous shot as the boyfriend lashes out. 
15. Cuts back to the mid CU shot of the boyfriend. 
16. Cuts to a medium shot of David as he leans towards the camera towards the boyfriend.
17. Over the shoulder shot of David as he grabs the boyfriend's neck.
18. Mid CU shot of David as he's retrained from behind my a policeman. 
19. Medium shot slightly looking down on the commotion. 
20. Different angle of this shot. 
21. Cut back to the Mid CU of David with the police man as the policeman says his line.
22. Merry-go-round music stops and a bell is heard. (Diegetic)  
23. Mid shot of David's gang to show their reactions.
24. Cuts back to the Mid CU of David as he responds to the policeman.
25. Cuts back to Mid shot of David's gang.
26. Cuts back to Mid CU of David as you see his gang walking past him in the background (out of focus)
27. Cuts back to medium shot of the woman and boyfriend to see their reactions. 
28. Cut to Mid CU of policeman as he says another line. 
29. Medium shot of David. 
30. Transition from previous shot into an establishing shot of the fairground. 
31. Shots of different locations in the fairground. 

• The lighting throughout this opening sequence is low key to due to the fact that it's set at night time. The only lights that are visible in the sequence is the lights from the fair ground rides. 
• The costume of the characters don't seem seem modern. I looks as though their clothes from the 1980s.
• The vocabulary the the characters use could also show that this is from the 1980s. 
• Also, the music shows that this is set in the 1980s.