Film Openings - Once (Background Information & Narrative) // Research

Background Information:

Once (2006)
Director: John Carney
Studio:
 -Samson Films
Success?
 -Box Office: $20,710,513
 -Awards:
    -Central Ohio Film Critics Association, Won, Best Score (2008)
    -British Independent Film Awards, Nominated, Best Foreign Independent Film (2007)
     and more..

Narrative:

The opening scene starts with a guitar being played coming in, some titles appearing on the screen and then it cuts to an extra long shot of a man playing a guitar (which is the guitar sound the audience could hear from the start) and singing. What I like about this opening is how it's so simple and doesn't establish much of a storyline at all at the beginning. The only information it feeds to the audience is how one of the main characters is a man who busks on the street and is singing a song about some sort of relationship/emotions he is feeling. The opening scene ends with one woman clapping as he's finished the song and this leaves the audience wondering who this woman is and what will happen between the two of them.