Almost Famous, directed by Cameron Crowe, has been one of my favourite movies since I was a pre-teen. Almost Famous is a film set in the early 1970’s based on Cameron Crowe’s adventures on tour as a teenage rock journalist for Rolling Stone.
The beginning of the film starts with a series of very focused shots of a yellow legal pad of notebook paper and person writing the opening credits with a pencil. Looking at the yellow legal pad, the names are in center depth of field for the most of the opening credits; the entire area is in sharp focus where the viewer can clearly read the credits of the film.
In between each name, the film cuts to full deep depth of field shots of Crowe’s rock-and-roll memorabilia like ticket stubs, old backstage passes, hotel keys, etc. The opening credit scene appears to have been shot with a telephoto lens. In the opening credits the viewer has a restricted view of specific objects; they are limited seeing the legal yellow pad and Crowe’s memorabilia, which creates the impression of shallow depth of field.
The opening credits in Almost Famous gives the film a serious journalistic beginning; the viewer gets a sense of how serious and factual teenage journalist William Miller takes his job and how ends up on quite an adventure. The rock-and-roll mementos demonstrate the director’s conveyance of how this period of life was extremely influential and somewhat hysterical.
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