Textual analysis of 'Edward scissorhands'

The opening of 'Edward scissorhands' we see the 20th century fox logo, there is snow coming down quick around it, from this we can guess that it's going to be a lonely sad film, and not a love or comedy. There is incidental music playing throughout the opening credits, the music is a mysterious instrumental song and changes Every time a new title comes up, the music starts off instrumental with children's voices, this makes the film have a dark nature effect to it . It fades out to a close up of a machine which is possibly in a factory, the camera angle doesn't show the audience the surrounding of the machinery, it leaves them wondering. the camera then tilts  and forward tracks towards a door, the door is an old fashioned black castle door, this gives the impression that its a horror or something scary is going to happen. The caption 'Edward scissorhands' comes flying on the screen and the tempo of the music gets faster and the frequency gets louder. The words tall, thin and white which makes them stand out on the black background, they are tilted which indicates that something is not right the word Edwards comes away from the scissor hands in a scissor like motion, the camera zooms in at where the blade would be if they were a pair of scissors. The camera pans around gargoyles that are covered in spiderwebs, this gives the audience the impression that its not looked after and no one lives there. It then forward tracks up the stairs, there is little light used here giving it a haunted effect. There is lots of extreme close ups of machinery with captions that are at an angle. The machinery all represent a body part such as hands, face, body and shapes. This shows that maybe the machinery is creating a human, like Frankenstein.

The camera zooms out of the mansion sitting on a hill top on its own surrounded by snow, this shows that it's isolated and lonely. The camera then zooms out showing the back of an old women's head, the audience then realise that they were looking thought the subjective s point of view. The women walks away from the window towards the bed, the bedroom has an old fashioned fireplace and loads of snow globes on top of the fire place. The angles goes to a two shot showing the old lady sitting on a big arm chair and the little girl in bed waiting for a story, the fact there is a little girl indicates to the audience that it cant be that scary. There is dialogue used and the old women says ' I guess we would have to start with scissors' it's then we realise the lady is going to tell the story.

The camera cuts back to inside the castle, looking through Edward scissors hands eyes showing the neighbourhood. The homes have lights coming from them, which gives the neighbourhood a loving look , the camera then zooms out to over the shoulder shot showing Edward looking out the window. In the next scene, the camera shows the neighbourhood in day light, all the houses, cars and clothes are pastel bright colours which gives the film a sense of fairy tale and makes the audience more relaxed about the film. The lighting and colours show that the film isn't going to be all horror. It has some love elements to it. The camera angle then cuts to an Avon lady getting turned down by all neighbours and she gets back into her car and looks through her mirror to find the mysterious castle in her reflections, the darkness of the castle contrasts with the rest of the neighbourhood. The audience are left on the edge of their seats as the Avon lady drives up to the castle,