Friday, 20 January 2012

Film opening Structures

In lesson, we learnt about four different types of film openings structures



  • A narrative opening with titles running throughout.
  • A discreet title sequence 
  • Titles over a blank screen
  • And a 'Stylized' opening structure

A film that we looked at was 'The Shining' which has a  narrative opening.
In a narrative opening there is titles running throughout and it normally sets up the story line
straight away. Hinting out what it could be about. In the start of 'The shining' we see a car
driving through very isolated mountains hinting out that. the person in the car is going to be
alone and might be being watched because of the high angle of the camera




Another film that we looked at was 'Se7ven' , which had a discreet opening.
Discreet openings don't give much away about what the film could be about
hence why it is called discreet.
Although it does give away what type of person/people are.
In this film it seems as though this person might be some kind of murderer? or a psycho?




The film 'Donnie darko' has a film opening where the titles are shown over a blank screen.
Its fairly simple and to be honest I found it rather boring to watch. Although it did have good 
background music/ sound which made it a little more interesting.










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