Blog 4 film opening

'Watching' documentary 

 Thomas Sutcliffe says "films need to seduce their audience into long term commitment.While there are many types of seduction, the temptation to go far instant arousal is almost irresistible". What he means is that the film openings are very important as the audience expectations are needed to be met for all genres.

Director Jean Jacques Beineix argues that the risks of instant arousal is that the viewers often have high expectations of a film due to a good beginning but by the end of the film they feel let down because the beginning had so much time and money put into it that the end comes out disappointing because so much time and money was put into the beginning . They wanted to draw attention in the beginning but because of instant arousal the audience were pleased in the end.

The reason why"A good beginning must make the audience feel that it doesn't know nearly enough yet and at the same time make sure that it doesn't know too little" is in order to keep the audience excited. They give away enough of the plot to show the audience and this will allow them to gain interest, however they do not give away too much.

Critic Stanley Kaufman describes as the classic opening, it shows the reality of the setting and everyday life which makes it more reliable as the audience feel like they can almost relate.

Kyle Coopers title sequence to the film Seven so effective as it illustrates what is going to happen in the films, notebooks and pictures.

Orson Welles wanted to achieve with his opening to the film A touch of Evil " All in one" take, the universal studio put music and the sequence over the orginal clip