When doing our research for our own film openings, we watched a couple of existing films such as ‘Goodfellas’ and ‘Alien’ to analyse the conventions of a film opening which we could use when creating our own two minute film openings.
The opening of ‘Alien’ began by introducing us to the time, date and location. It also then used gave us a ‘tour’ of a spaceship while using a variety of tense music to create an enigma of ‘what’s around this corner?’ and ‘what happens next?’
The opening of ‘Goodfellas’ introduces us to the main character through him talking about his life and how he ended up being a gangster. This is also backed by various shots of him looking down from an upstairs window as if to be looking down on the community.
To summarise, the conventions of a film opening include:
- Title of film
- Credits (who’s involved in the making of the film)
- Music associated with the theme of the film
- Introduction to characters
- Location, date, time period
Among many others
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