Film Opening Research

All these articles ,reviews, film posters and pictures all helped with my research on thriller theme openings. I researched not only film openings but also i watched films in full and noted thier themes and their hybrid genres i also read and looked at article to look at real life stories as i want the film opening to be as realistic as possible.

Analysis of Opening Sequence “Memento”

This film opening is a thriller and it has helped with creating our film opening i looked at the camera shots and movements, music and sound used and how the characters were established. The first thing that came to my attention was the music, the music was mysterious and it set the mood for the opening sequence, this made the video and audio parallel as they both matched each other . 1^st shots in the opening sequence are photographs held by someone this gave the audience clues to what may happened or is going to happen in this film Also what I liked  about “Memento” is the film was going backwards as it made me think and left me wondering what happened. The director also used photographs to establish the characters without words by the use of pictures, this is a different and creative way of establishment. Overall I really like the film opening as I thought it was very challenging as I was left wondering and confused as everything was going back in time.

Analysis of Opening Sequence “Falling Down”

This film opening is a thriller and it has helped with creating our film opening i looked at the camera shots and movements, music and sound used and how the characters were established. The director Joel Schumacher used  a lot of extreme close ups this was to build up tension Close ups were used also to show the frustration in the characters’ face to show the audience how the character was feeling. The director also used Pans to establish the surrounding to the audience. The camera shots kept changing at a fast pace this was to show the audience how frustrated the character really was. The music chosen helped build up tension in the scene this also showed how frustrated the character was as the music also sped up and became louder. The sounds used in the opening sequence made the scene more real this made the audience feel like they was sitting in the traffic as well. The character was established by different shots used there was no speech but the shots used made it obvious that this character was going to significant.