Research into 2 different film openings

 Questions :

• How many titles are displayed during the opening sequences to the film?

• How do particular titles connote certain genres?

• What images are prioritized in the opening sequence? What connotations do the images carry?

• How is genre reinforced through symbolic and technical codes from the outset?

• How does the film establish an enigma from the outset?

• What strategies are used to ensure the film appeals to its target audience?

• How has technology been used effectively? You might want to consider camera angles, transitions and editing techniques.

Film opening research 1: Terminator 2 Judgement Day

• During the opening sequence the audience is able to witness 5 different titles displaying setting, production company, director, cast and film title.
• In specific the setting title is introduced with a cutaways edit fast-passing into the future further emphasizing on the sci-fi genre of the given film.
• The initial sequence clearly focuses on the establishing shot of the different backgrounds, with the main purpose of connoting towards the viewer the dark futuristic both tone and theme presented on the exposed movie.
• Sci-fi genre is vastly reinforced by the constant utilization of special effects and CGI that fluently inverse the spectator base into the film's narrative.
• Enigma codes are efficiently created all over the scene's entirety, through a series of long shots portraying the mise-en-scene in the process while consequentially making questions for the targeted audience about future foreshadowed events.
• In order to ensure that the film appeals to the sci-fi genre target audience, the director effectively makes use of strategies like implementing a juxtaposition between a dystopian and an utopian world, with the principal objective of drawing the audience's attention to the film's fiction plot.
• The opening extract's longevity is accompanied by various types of pre and post production techniques that ensure that the landscape of the film is not disturbed by any possible means. For example, a non-diegetic sound is present to exponentially boost the enlighted tense atmosphere.

Film opening research 2: Mission Impossible

• In the initial sequence again the viewers are able to identify 5 different titles that solely consist on the conglomerate company, crew and movie name.
• The titles clearly connote a distinct sense of action genre, since the colour palette and typography are continuously being utilized to connote action based features.
• Moreover, the opening scene unquestionably priorities the performance from one individual character. This is particularly done by imposing a couple of reverse shots effectively complemented with close-up shots, in order to showcase the character's emotions regarding the action tense situation.
• As the introduction plays out the spectator can clearly perceive the presence of special effects like explosion further connoting action genre codes.
• Again during the beginning sequence the length of take lasts basically small instants, this inevitably is going to lead to the materialization of a diverse amount enigma codes that direct question towards the viewer base. Adding on, the mise-en-scene within the sequence exposes different plot points that may foreshadow future outcomes for the audience to eventually discover.
• With the main purpose of ensuring that the given media product appeals to the action genre targeted audience, they set up a tone of secrecy further emphasizing on the spies theme that without question links back to the incredibly demanded action genre.
• To finish with, the production team effectively executes a variety of different filming techniques that support the established action genre. For example, for the majority of the opening sequence, the camera movement is on purpose placed in an eye-line level, to further engage the spectator as if he/she were inside the presented story itself.