Film Openings

The purpose of this task was to look at different beginnings of different films. All the films we watched were from different genres e.g. Romantic comedy's and science-fiction. Here are some of the films we watched.









Children Of Men




The genre of this film is science-fiction, we can see this because it shows that the year is in the future and it showed computers that had much better technology than we have in the present day.

The start of the film is used to tell the audience, what the film is about and what problems there are in the future, (humans are infertile) and how serious it is for them. At the start it shows that the youngest person in the world, baby Diego who is 18, and how upset everyone was when the news broke.

We followed the main character into a local coffee shop and that is where we see the news about the teenager dying, then he walks out there is a big explosion in the shop he was just in. They use a hand held camera to show his point of view when the first bit of action happens.

Notting Hill

The genre of this film is Romantic comedy, we can tell this because, We can tell this because the male character tells some jokes and he talks about 'the girl' . They have a shot of the main women in it, in slow motion with love music over the top to show that she is the main women and that she is shown as a very important person, you can tell this because she is smiling at the many people that are trying to take photos of her.

On the other hand Hugh Grant who plays the other main character is shown as normal and not a very significant person in the local community. You tell that he isn't important because he walks through the whole market and no-one really notices him, and talks like he has been there for a long time by explaining everyone throught the market.

Definatly, maybe

The Genre of this film is a Romantic Comedy. You can tell it is a romantic comedy because happy music is used, he jokes and the first few minutes are about getting to know the main characters in the film. We find out that the main character is having a divorce, he has a daughter. We can tell it is set in New York because there are yellow taxi's and tall buildings and it is very busy. Establishing shots are used to show the location of the city, a clever way it is also shown is having multiple images which show him walking down the street. He talks about happily ever after which suggests that it is about romance. We see him working which shows us his job and more about him and that he has an everyday life because after work he has to pick his daughter up from school.

Goodfella's

It is a gangster fim. They start by talking about him always wanting to be a gangster, there is shooting, stabbing and some blood which shows that this is not a happy film. We see a body in the boot of the car which they stab which shows that they are not nice people. The red break lights cover the whole of there bodies which makes them look like they are drenched in blood, red is not a nice colour and reminds the audience of blood. The main character is shown by being the main focus of the camera and he is closest. It also tries to hook the audience in because saying that it is a true story. The purpose of the opening sequence is achieved by the use of colour, red and black are bad colours which shows these are bad people. It is set in the night which is very dark and makes it seem they are in the middle of nowhere. It helps create a menace and terror mood.