Film Opening Research
What makes
an opening sequence? When it comes to film openings, directors and producers do
certain things to make the film attractive for the audience. The film opening
is a very important part of a film because it sets the genre and draws the audience's
attention. However depending on the genre of the film, the opening of it could
vary. For example by using pace, fonts, colours, music and other factors one
film opening let's say a horror film, will be completely different to a
Romantic Comedy.
As I have
been set a task to develop a thriller film opening within a group, we need to
find out certain things to produce an accurate thriller film opening. This
means we needed to look thriller films which had already been made so we have a
good Idea how to produce one.
What
makes a Thriller movie?
The thriller
film genre uses suspense, excitement and tension as the main film elements.
This means that this will create suspense, shock, anxiety, anticipation and
terror amongst the audiences watching it. Therefore to re-create this effect.
We will need to have a fast paced editing speed which will help keep the
audience on the edge of their seats. But from further research it's not only
the editing speed which will set the genre of the film. Are choice of graphics
and sounds are also very important. Generally quite dark sinister music will be
used in the beginning of thriller films because this type of music seems to
build up suspense amongst the audience due to its ever changing tempo. One
minute it could be very fast paced and the all of a sudden it will change to a
much slower paced beat. For example one of the most famous thriller films till
this day: Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho uses this type of music. A sample of his
theme tune for his film is below:
Joel Ryan
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