Independent Research on Film Openings

Independent Research on Film Openings

Most films institutions aim to make the first 10 minutes of the film as interesting as possible to ensure the audience stay to watch the rest of the film. It is said that if your screenplay isn't interesting in the first few pages the script reader is most likely to stop reading your script and not make the film.
Movie title sequences can often be the most important part of a film. Setting the tone, atmosphere and characters for the audience, the opening of a film can either make or break the film.
Usually the most successful film openings bring a well developed sense of intrigue that will leave you settled into your seat desperate to know more about the story and the characters that are going to occupy your time for the next one and a half to two hours. If it is particularly inventive there will be some dramatic foreshadowing that will enable to hint you at the problems that are going to occur throughout the story. 

For example Sky fall uses different ways of intriguing the audience. The film opening gives away different parts of the film like a house being on fire or somebody dying. This therefore makes the audience want to watch the film to find out what is going on in these scenes of the film. Also due to the opening being of high quality it will make the audience see the rest of the film as being of high quality and make them want to continue watching the film.
-Jenna