Film opening tips
- 2. TIPS
• Draw the audience into the story
• Unique opening
• Narrative hooks
• Setting the scene
• Introduce characters
- 3. TIPS
• Set the tone of the film
• Titles and effects
• Music and audio
- 4. STAGE ONE
• Think back to research
• Which aspects of openings you have analysed have made an impression?
• List the elements
- 5. Location Ideas
• House/Bedroom- Equilibrium
• Underground- Mysterious/Odd
• Office- Formal
• Warehouse- Abandoned
• Forest- Nature
• Club- Scandalous
• Street- Night and Day / Open / Public
• Scrapyard- Dirty
- 6. Location Ideas
• Cliff Sides – Tension / Isolated
• Church – Peaceful / Tension or Horror
• Shopping Centre
• Abandoned Rail Yard
• Messy Bedroom
• Car
• Bathroom
• Industrial Area- Westonzoyland Airfield