Pan's Labyrinth: Opening Scene Analysis and one other scene

 In Pan's Labyrinth, the opening starts off with a shot of Ofelia who is the main character, dead on the ground with blood on her, the lighting is cold and gloomy alongside with humming, to create sadness in the atmosphere as we witness Ofelia's death first thing in the film. After, it zooms in to Ofelia's eye, which then reveals a shot where there is some sort of palace where the narrator begins telling us a fairytale, the whole shot is under the same lighting as Ofelia's death, this can kind of show that the underground realm that the narrator is talking about is actually just death under Ofelia's imagination. Afterwards, we are shown some warm lighting, where we see Ofelia who is alive, and her mother in a car whilst Ofelia reads a fairy tale book.

Right off the bat in the opening scene we are shown some foreshadowing as Ofelia does die in the end, alongside a continuous shot that we see progress as the fairy-tale is told and then we see Ofelia and her mother in the car. Apart from the supported lighting, the editing in the opening scene is very fluent, you can't notice it until you look closely, for example when Ofelia found that rock there was several cuts to show different views even though they were all mostly from Ofelia's perspective to show that she's the main character and who the audience should be mainly paying attention to. 

The opening scene overall is slow-paced to kind of portray how the rest of the film is going to be like, however towards the end it gets faster when Ofelia is getting chased. Constant continuation shots as Ofelia walks with cuts in-between to show Ofelia's perspective, and at the very end of the opening scene we get an over the shoulder view from the "fairy" as Ofelia called it to her mother, which is also some kind of foreshadowing because the bug ends up shifting into an actual fairy after it followed Ofelia.

The use of foreshadowing in the opening scene is very present once you actually see the whole film, as an audience watching this for the first time you'd think nothing of it however you can still make a few assumptions like with Ofelia and that "fairy" bug. 

The lighting which changes to a dark and gloomy state whenever we are presented by the "Underworld" can represent death, and when we are presented by normal bright lighting could represent life, this is further employed as in the end scene when Ofelia gets shot by the captain the lighting was also dark, throughout the film whenever we come across a scene that generally has violence in it like the scene where the rebels and fascists are shooting each other, that scene had dark gloomy lighting which embeds the thought of the lighting representing life and death.