Opening Sequence - The Breakfast Club

The opening sequence for The Breakfast Club presents itself as both a comedy and a drama. The voice over highlights the different characters presented in the movie, and then presents the characters interacting with their parents. It displays the stereotypical interaction between a teenager and a parent, despite the class of the family, which can easily be seen in the quality of the method of transport. We can assume the genres because of the shot of the high school, as high school films are usually a combination of romance, comedy and drama. The fact that it is showing it to be a sunny day, reflects that the film may be cheerful, or at least showing various problems to be resolved. 

As it is set in a high school, we understand that the film will be about relationships, stereotypes and communication. The film is portraying parents as the evil characters, as we see by the teens' reactions to their parents. The teens' characters are undetermined despite the stereotypes mentioned in the voice over, "a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, and a criminal", while it is easy to work out which character correlates with each stereotype, we cannot fully work out each character's impact on the film and story.

The upbeat backing track supports the earlier point of the sunny day reflecting cheerfulness, and the genre, as the beat would excite you to watch something with the same rhythm. The montage of the interior of the school show the negatives of school, for example, the graffiti on the locker displays bullying.

We can see the clock in the montage of the school, which we can see will be important, as the time is set at 7 AM, we will be able to refer to the time in the film, and see the evolution of the story. The school is deserted, so we can assume it is the weekend, for a Saturday detention, which is confirmed when the parents scold their kids for being there in the first place.