Key To A Good Opening:
But the key is to make the audience feel a strong emotion- engage/shock/humour the audience. The tone and atmosphere is to hook us within the first 10 pages of the Opening- quick, sharp strokes of detail without giving everything away is important to keep us engaged.
(Avatar (2010) is an exception to the tradition of the opening and has been a very successful movie.)
NERVE (Adventure/Thriller/Crime):
The sound of an Apple Mac logging on sets the Opening Scene. Filled with a technology, every producer and actor's name Title Card is customised with the use of social media, appealing to a younger generation with 3D text designs from Microsoft Word and bright colours, appealing to teenagers. Sound effects of computers/digital noises and the opening song: Basenji - Can't Get Enough, makes the audience thrilled and excited.
Nothing is spoiled in the introduction, no dialogue, just pure modern tech; and we get the idea that this movie is all about applications with tints of adventure and crime with its enticing name "NERVE".
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The Conjuring (Horror/Thriller)
We're introduced into this chilling film through the introduction of a slow, sinister and chilling music; that progresses into a loud climatic soundtrack.
The theme of black & white suggests a very cold and dull mood- suggesting that this will contain no happiness, preparing the audience for the chilling mood.Props of newspapers and extracts from history with the title "Plague", indicates disease and death (the main theme of the film, there will be death).
Many of these are focused on a large Victorian-styled house, where each prop is introduced by an old camera shutter, followed by sound effects of thuds, bells and turning paper.
The name title cards are covering eyes of little children, implying that there's no innocence of purity/even death is symbolised. The ending is wrapped up with the fading of a woman
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