'Watching' Documentary on Film Openings

1) What Thomas Sutcliffe is getting at is that films should learn how to keep their audience wanting more instead of filling all their needs in the opening scene, this will leave the audience wanting more and often leave the film producers in a struggle.

2) According to Jean Jacques Beineix, the risks of instant arousal is that the audience wouldn't gained a long term commitment and again the producers will have to exceed their previous limitations when starting too strong.

3) The beginning of a movie should always display a certain amount of information about the movie to make the audience know what type of movie it is, whether it is a movie to laugh at or a movie that will educate them. Making the audience feel that they don't know nearly enough yet and at the same time making sure that they dont know too little provides a long term commitment with the films.

4) The critic, Stanley Kauffmann, describes classic openings as orderly and in place. From Kauffmann's perspective, classic openings tend to introduce the character and atmosphere through establishing shots and close ups of the buildings and characters. We, as an audience, can make the assumption if the characters is a villian or a hero by the way they're introduced.

5) The title sequence to 'Seven' is really effective because it instantly tells the audience what type of movie it is going to be by the quick flashing of the characters name and the musical score used. It uses instant arousal for opening to engage the audience into the movie.

6) Orson Welles wanted his opening to feel like it wasn't a movie, that the whole scenario was just natural and calm so that the audience could somehow relate and feel at ease, so that he could take them by surprise. What Universal wanted is to use the opening credits with a musical score, this was to show the audience what company produced the movie.

7) 'A favourite trick of Film noir'. The trick is when a movie decides to use the ending as an opening, this is supposed to make the audience think that it is the beginning of the movie and start making them ask questions in their mind.

8) The opening of 'The shining' creates suspense by the constant pursuing of the camera. The fact that camera is far behind the car almost shows that they're going to be the victims and how they're completely unaware of it. It creates suspense because the audience doesnt know when the action is going to kick off.