Film Opening

Film Openings 

As we learned in class, Storytelling is joke telling. Everything that we sayin a story is leading to something bigger and a lot more meaningful. If told correctly, stories can pass the barriers of time. One major aspect emphasized during our in class discussions was in order to be successful at telling stories, you have to be able to make people care. We learned that although there are many to do this, storytelling without dialogue is the best approach you can take. By not adding dialogue you are making your audience work to understand the meanings behind every portion of the story without them actually knowing that they are doing it. Make the audience put the elements together. Stories are inevitable but not predictable. It is important to remember that storytelling has guidelines, not rules. A strong theme is always running through a well told story. The best way to tell a story is to take a step back and use what you know.

In class we were shown a variety of different film openings. This allowed use not only to analyses the choices and techniques that each director took when creating the film opening, but also to be able to analyses the different approaches that one can take when creating a film opening depending on what type of feel and reaction you want your audience to have. To me the most compelling out of all of the ones that we watched was Scream. This is due to the way that the director was able to create a meaningful aspect behind every camera movement, noice, and light at the beginning the tone was calm and then escalated quickly. The use of the popcorn cooking is used as a metaphor, as it cooks and i gets closer and closer to explode, the tone gets more and more intense and mysterious. The start of the slow zoom with one point of view, that starts to develop her fear and ends when she finally starts to reach to her fear.