Monday 5th 09

In today's lesson we watched a documentary about film openings and we were given a sheet with questions that we had to answer while watching. We watched a few film opening which were very different and discussed what worked and how they created the emotion that the film makers were aiming. The program included directors and people who worked in making the opening to the films and explained how they worked to seduce the audience and keep them in suspense and interested but not revealing too much. 

Some film openings start with the end at the beginning which is called ''a favourite trick trick of film noir''.  some directors talked about how they prefer to have a slow start unlike others who prefer a big bang which would catch the viewers attention but even thought by doing this you get a great opening i might be the only big thing that happens in the whole movie which to some might be a disappointment.