What does a film opening do?

Kyle Cooper Title sequence of Seven

"Touch of Evil" Orson Welles

He wanted to created curiosity which was successfully achieved as we saw a man put a bomb in a person's car and watch it travel the streets anticipating the explosion. So the fact that:

It allows the audience to have a buzz and to fully enjoy the film prior to it actually starting. It causes the suspense and mystery of wanting to know more about the film, yet knowing enough to understand the plot and loving the fact that they have to figure it out for themselves.

Universal Studio credited themselves whiles the film played in other to gain recognition

, is rude. It spoiled the effect because half of the time the type cause a distraction

It's wicked! It has me wanting to watch the full film. It leaves you on edge the whole way through. The back track is so dramatic that it spooks you and yet has you wanting and anticipating for more. Likewise with the images, it has you curious about the plot and what actually happened The fact that we see a person cutting images out of the newspapers only suggest that this person is planning on killing someone/ some people.Leading you to think that this person has psychological problems and is bound to do something crazy.

The risks of "instant arousal"

"A good beginning must make the audience feel that it doesn't know nearly enough, yet at the same time make sure that it doesn't know too little"

Jean Jacques mean this by the fact that, once you've got your audience going, you have to keep the same level of interest throughout. Keep them on alert and wanting more. So by instantly arousing your audience, it only makes things 10 times harder for you. In which it leaves you questioning what else can you bring to the table? "The risks that you will never answer their questions." In fear that it may give away all the excitement of the film itself.

Stanley Kauffnman's "classic opening"

Thomas Sutcliffe

"Films first need to seduce their audience into a long term commitment. Whiles there are many types of seduction, the temptation to go for instant arousal is almost irresistible"

What does this mean to me?

He describes an classic opening of when they show the audience some form of establishing shot of the surrounding. As well as the camera showing us main characters, important objects or places to do with the film. Essentially something to familiarise yourself with. In other words, Showing you an significant building, followed by the windows of this building, then straight into the action with the characters . It also simply allows the audience to have a interpretation of the film prior

It implies that the opening of a film needs to have the ability to captivate their audience from the jump, leaving them wanting more out of it. Whiles enjoying the anticipation it creates and the inability of not knowing what's going to happen next. The Thrill!

Favorite trick of film "Noir"

This is when the opening of the film is started as a foreshadow of the end of the film. Causing dramatic irony, yet we don't know what happens prior to these events. Meanwhile causing it to be much difficult in maintaining the suspense and interest of the audience, because they already know the outcome of this predicament

The Shinning

The suspense is created by the backing track the whole way through, Whiles we follow the camera unaware of what is going to happen next. as we don't know where the journey is taking us or well it previously was. It's in the middle of nowhere aswell,so there's nowhere to really familiarise with and its like we have our hearts on our sleeves. Anticipation and somewhat fearing.

What does a film opening do?