Opening Sequence

Objective: To be able to identify the generic convection's of an opening sequence within a film in particular.

Opening sequence is presenting the title, key production and cast members through a few scenes. Films make opening scene for their films because they need to introduce their audience to what the film will be about. This is important because they need to show their audience to many things such as what actors are going to be in the film.
 In the opening sequence we see the location of where the film will take place. This will help the audience to come up with a genre of the film. For example in a dark forest, the genre is likely to be thriller. But if it was set in a city  it can be a action even a rom-com.

I only really wanted to watch opening sequences from Thrillers and some horrors. I then watched the following opening sequences from the film "SAW 3". I had to identify the following points:

- Narrative of the film

- The characters

- The location


SAW 3
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Location - A dark room with dirty tile floors the only light source it a torch also a gun in the middle of the room out of reach 

Characters - one man chained by the leg to the wall  

Narrative - the man finds a brick after trying to reach for the gun he then smashes the brick into the leg which is chained to the wall to break out to get the gun to probably kill his self, setting the question who put him there, why is he there, where is he and how did he get there 

Blade

Location - A night club for vampires

characters - A human in a red coat, he seem to not know what kind of night club this is till blood start to pour from above. Blade - the man in black who come and kills the vampires and saving the man in red 

narrative - blade is a vampire killer and a hero to the humans but is not a friend to the cops.

After watching many more opening i had a very good idea of what to put into my own production and what i have to show in the 2 minutes I have, for example i have to show a clear concept of the location, a clear image of all the characters and what they are like also to have a clear understanding of the narrative with out knowing before.