The editing in the opening sequence to the film Two Weeks Notice helps to introduce the characters and the story.
In the first scene the cutting pace is quite fast and somewhat irregular, this helps to show how passionate the character is about what she is doing and also implies the slight lack of elegance as to how she goes about doing it.
The pace of cuts then begins to decrease in the next scene as she is getting out of the police station, this helps to show how she is going back into her everyday life. Then when she is shown in her own flat there is literally only one cut and this is after quite a long shot of the character ordering food, this helps to portray how slow and routine her life is.
When we are introduced to the male character the editing pace is much faster and is in more of an organised rhythm, which shows that he leads quite an exciting, sophisticated lifestyle. Which is in a large contrast to the females very boring life, this contrast helps to foreshadow how the two characters fall out due to their different lifestyles.
Overall the editing in this opening sequence effectively introduces the characters and gives the audience some sort of idea as to what the film will be about.
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