Film Opening Deconstruction - 'Atonement'

The film opens with the 'universal' logo accompanied with the usual sound that would usually apply to 'universal'. It then cuts to black and at around 0:29 the 'Working Title' logo also appears, with no sound. At 0:33 'UNIVERSAL PICTURES PRESENTS' in a typewriter typeface, perhaps signifying that this is a film set in the past, already conveying the time in which the film is set; there is also the sound of birds tweeting in the background which could imply the film being in the countryside. There is the sound of a typewriter being rewound as this text fades and 'IN ASSOCIATION WITH STUDIOCANAL AND RELATIVITY MEDIA' appears on screen at 0:39, with the birds still tweeting. Similarly there is the sound of a typewriter being rewound as this text fade and transitions to 'A WORKING TITLE PRODUCTION', along with the continued birds twittering. There is the noise of the typewriter as it transitions to the main title 'ATONEMENT' at 0:47, this text is underlined and there is the sound of the typewriter as it is being typed out, as it appears on screen. 

This then transitions to a doll's house with the continued sound of typing and birds tweeting in the background at 0:53.  This then pulls out and starts to reveal more of what we find out to be a girl's bedroom, due to the placement of play animals, floral wallpaper, carpet and bed-sheets and we can already assume that this place is owned by rich, upper class people due to the extravagant doll's house and the amount of toys; we can also assume that this is set in the past since there is no technology, other than a typewriter. There is then flowing pan up shot to a girl sat typing at her desk at around 1:23. Something that also becomes apparent is the girl must be quite intelligent despite her age since she has many, heavy books upon her desk. This shot then transitions, within the same sequence to a circular around the side of her face. There is then a straight cut to a extreme close-up of the girls eyes, as she it typing. 

There is then a high-angle shot of the girl's hands on the keys as the camera tilts up from the hands on the typewriter to the paper of which she had been writing on, with the words 'THE END'. Slow, gentle piano music then begins as she takes the paper from the typewriter, this then transitions to her placing the document in a folder, which has the title of her work, 'THE TRIALS OF ARABELLA by Briony Tallic' with handwritten drafts beneath it in her 'flowy' handwriting - at around 1:41. At 1:46 there is a pull-out shot as the girl picks up her document and walks out of her bedroom. As this shot pulls out, it reveals her desk and typewriter. There is also the steady beat of a typewriter in the background along with the quite dramatic and inquisitive music. At 1:49 there is a pan as the girl walks over to the wooden landing, at which point the typewriter becomes blended with the music and increases in pace at 1:54 as the music becomes louder. As she runs down the hall there is a cut to a maid making a bed, reiterating our expectations of the girl being from a rich family. There is a straight cut to the girls as she runs down the stairs and through the corridor, into the kitchen where she says 'I've finished my play.', with one of the staff replying 'Well done.' the girls then asks if they 'had seen mummy', the staff replies 'She'll be in the drawing room I expect' another then says 'I hope you're not going to be getting under our feet today Briony, we've got a dinner for ten to prepare'. She then walks through another hallway, when she stops someone outside, at the front of her house.