Film Opening Coursework. Film Introduction Planning - Pros and Cons of Film Genre's Openings.

Myself and my partner Dan sat down in a lesson and listed pros and cons of each genre. We have decided comedy is definitely a no go considering as we found it very hard to find any pros for it.

I think we're going to choose either thriller or social realism because we found it easiest to find pros for them and hard to find cons.

This is part of our planning.

Film Opening Coursework. How to Analyse Film Openings.

I have decided to include this in my research because I feel by looking back at this, myself and my partner Dan can make sure there are answers to all of these questions whilst making our film opening.

For example, if we were to make a horror film opening, we would make sure we would use a red font to represent blood etc.

I just thought it might help with the planning process.

Film Opening Coursework. Codes and Conventions - Social Realism Films

These are the "traditional" codes and conventions of a social realism film.

I thought i'd just upload these incase I did decide to do a social realism film opening, even though I doubt I will, it's nice to have some variation and look at other ideas.

Film Opening Coursework. Film Opening Analysis - Enduring Love

This is my film analysis of Enduring Love, a social realism film.

I have to say, it wasn't my favourite film opening. Very dramatic and the director has filmed it VERY well but I don't think I would be able to pull anything of nearly as good as this. When I have watched other social realism films, they haven't had very good openings, this is an exception, other than Trainspotting which has an amazing film opening.

I don't think I'll be doing Social Realism for my genre of choice, but we'll see.

Film Opening Coursework. Film Opening Analysis - Shutter Island.

I have decided to analyse Shutter Island because unlike The Devil Inside, Shutter Island is a Thriller, not a horror. I am trying to get a good perspective of what film openings will be best for my final piece and so far, I think Thriller is winning. We'll have to see. 

Shutter Island's opening is very, very powerful. There is an awful amount of foreshadowing throughout which I only noticed due to the fact that I had already seen the full film before analysing it. It's dramatic, full of suspense and keeps you guessing what actually is happening on that island throughout. 

A very good film opening.

Film Opening Coursework. Film Opening Analysis - The Devil Inside

To help me get a better idea of what film opening genre to decide, I have decided to watch a series of film openings from different genres and analyse them, seeing which one provides the most impact, which ones aren't very good and why, which ones are and why etc.

The Devil Inside's film opening is very good. It's very tense from the start and you are already surrounded by questions such as; is this possession human? where is she now? what is she doing right now? is she dead? It's full of suspense and it's straight in with the action instead of dragging it out for a long time, which I don't think is very good.