Inspiration!

In our group, we have all been looking at the opening sequences and titles to films to inspire us about what to do for our opening sequence.

I looked at 7 films and made notes on their openings. The films I looked at were:

• Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
• American Beauty (Sam Mendes, 1999)
• Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968)
• Seven (David Fincher, 1995)
• Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright, 2007)
• Delicatessen (Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1991) and
• Momento (Christopher Nolan, 2000).

The categories I made notes on were:

1. Representation - of gender/class/ethnicity/age etc
2. Mise - en - scene
3. Use of the camera
4. Sound
5. Unrestricted/restricted narration
6. Form (structure/narrative order/number of lines of action)
7. Target audience and
8. Titles, what's interseting and why?

My favourtie opening sequence of the films I studied was Delicatessan's.

I liked this because it gave the sense it was a really scary film and it was actually a comedy when I watched all of it. It set the theme for the whole film and I personally thought this was a really good way to establish the story of the film.

After watching the opening sequences to American Beauty and Memento in a group, we all decided that we liked the idea of playing around with time and we've decided to incorporate this into our sequence.