Saturday 14 January 2012

The structure of thriller openings

In lesson I watched certain trailers/ openings of films to show their structure. The 3 examples of structure openings are:

  • Narrative opening with titles running through
  • Discrete title sequence
  • Stylized editing
These 3 are different categories in which i chose out of 7 films and placed them in each structure category. For instance the movie 'The Shining' was put under narrative opening as the cameras main focus is the same through the title sequence, its like a journey as the car is going along a long road. Other films like 'The Taking of Pelham 123' has a stylized opening as the edits are very fancy and styled, fast and straight forward, it also is narrative as audience is given a sense of what will about to happen.

The Shining film opening
The Taking Of Pelham 123 film opening

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