This document discusses conventions for film openings including introducing characters and location, establishing genre, and using an enigma to intrigue viewers. It provides examples from Ferris Bueller's Day Off and 10 Things I Hate About You to illustrate how openings immediately provide context and set expectations. Mise-en-scene and editing techniques like match cuts are discussed as ways to create atmosphere, suspense, and focus viewer attention on what may come later in the film.

1. FILM OPENINGS

2. CONVENTIONS
 Intro to characters
 Genre
 Intro to place, e.g. Location,
building
 Enigma, e.g. Visually appealing,
mysterious, intrigued by the
character shown (usually based
around one).

3. EDITING/
CINEMATOGRAPHY
When editing, usually match-on-action and
knitting together different clips helps it run
smoothly which gives it verisimilitude. This
makes it much easier to focus on as
appose to jumpy clips which could get
potentially confusing.

4. WITHIN THE OPENING TITLE OF FERRIS
BUELLER’S DAY OFF, WE ARE IMMEDIATELY
TOLD LOCATION, TIME AND INTRODUCED TO
THE MAIN CHARACTERS
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Suburban house
Ferris, mother, father, sister
Immediately telling upcoming plot, what's going to happen “they bought it”

5. MISE-EN-SCENE
Depending on the genre of the movie the
mise-en-scene is crucial to create the
atmosphere (clothes etc) and suspense
that is needed to make viewers fixated
on the what could happen later on,
leaving us with a cliff hanger.

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Within this clip from 10 Things i hate about
you, automatically we notice the controversial
behaviour in the character Kat.
It makes the audience wonder where she got
her aggression and why? Will she at any point
become vulnerable?

7.  Non-Diegetic; Diegetic; voice overs;
narration; sound effects. This creates
realism and makes you feel the emotion
the director wants you to feel (to suit
the genre of film) for instance, Tim
Burton (Edward Scissor Hands) the use
of non-diegetic echoes and voices
gives us a mysterious and puzzling
feeling.Usually music in the charts that are relatable to the storyline
or used to express characters feelings.