Tuesday, 4 October 2011

Analysing film openings and their genres

We are looking into different film genres and the openings the their films.

Dirty Dancing(1987)
http://youtube/8Lwl0LO2VkU (embedding disabled)
Opening scene
Genre: Romance
This is a romantic opening of a film, quite an old film but shows the calmness and peace of the between the main characters, Baby and her father. Also baby mentions that she 'never thought she would find a guy as great as her dad' which could forshadow she will find love during the film.


The hangover(2009)
http://youtube/BAc_Z442voA (EMBEDDING DISABLED)
Opening scene
Genre: Comedy
This film starts with a disaster, due to a couple getting married that day, but the man is with his friends in a different city, so we can see from the begginning that the film is going to be funny and things are going to wrong for the characters.


The Quantim of Solice(2008)
Opening scene
Genre: Action



This film starts with an adventurous car chase, which gets the viewers engaged, because if the film starts with this exiting chaos, then it must be like this most of the way through which shall be very entertaining for its audience.


The Grudge(2004)
The opening
Genre: Horror



The opening to this film comes across as being scary as at the start, a couple are having a general happy conversation in their apartment, the man decides then to push him self over the balcony, killing himself, which then leaves the audience in confusion to why he did this, and they will want to find out more to this out of the blue suicide. Also the use of the font stlye in the opening credits is in red, showing signs of blood, death, most deffinatly accuring in the film.

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