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When thinking about what I wanted to do for m film opening, I have decided to change my genre. I want to make a film opening for a horror/ thriller film. All of my favorite film openings have been from films with this genre. In my opinion, the best way to open a horror/ thriller film is with one of two things. You either start the film with something very positive where the protagonist(s) are in a positive state, then contrast throughout the film, or start with something scary or thrilling, but provide little to no context. I think I will end up going with the second option because I personally prefer that over the first. This opening should be a key story point that happens later in the film that the viewer can think of throughout the film. One example from a movie that I watched and blogged about recently would be Bird Box. The movie begins with a very important part of the movie, but you don't know what the scene means, or why it is there until around halfway through the movie. ...

For my film opening, I was thinking that I would start in the future/ with the end of the movie. The reasoning behind this is that some of my favorite film openings have been done this way. The main movie I got this inspiration from is the "First horror film of 2019" Escape Room . This film "starts at the end". I want my opening to be something that is stuck in the viewers head for the entire duration of my "film". This will be tricky because I'm not actually making a full film, but I am excited to figure out how to execute it.

I will be working on the Action-Comedy genre and I will be working alone.

Avengers Infinity War (and other Marvel movies) For my second movie I thought I would choose Avengers Infinity War, however, upon revisiting the movie I thought of doing my blog post about the “Marvel” opening and not the opening specific to Infinity War. The Marvel movie opening is a classic that most people can recognize. Something that I really like about the opening is that still pays homage to the comic books by mimicking a sort of “page turning” effect at the beginning and if you look close enough there are pieces of text that are visible. It also includes almost all of their characters no matter what the movie is, it includes bits and pieces of the entire company and its history.

Bird Box The opening sequence of this movie is very simple. It only includes two titles, the production company (Netflix) and the title of the movie (Bird Box). Also, the beginning of the movie doesn't necessarily have to be the beginning of the story, a very common approach is starting a movie in the past, but this movie starts about halfway through the story. When watching for the first time I had no clue what any of it meant until I watched the movie and put pieces of the story together in my head and without having to revisit the scene in the opening, i already knew what it was about (although they do include the same scene from the opening where it belongs chronologically). They include images that spark an eerie feeling in the viewer. I could tell from the first few drone/ helicopter shots that the setting won't be bright or happy at all. Since this is a Netflix original movie produced in 2018, the quality of the equipment used is fantastic, and the quality of the ima...