Media Film Opening Conventions - Genre, Character and Setting. From This Is Helped Me To Understand The Different Conventions Within A Film Opening.

2. • The characters are very important in the opening of a
movie because the audience can determine an opinion of
them. As you can see from the two images one man is
wearing a suit and the other is in armour showing two
different opinions we can get from this. The characters set
up the audiences perception of the rest of the film.
Usually the characters are shown all at once, but in some
cases they show one character at a time with credits so
they don’t give too much away, so they keep the audience
guessing.

3. • In the film opening the audience can often tell what type
of genre the film is from the characters and Mise-en-
scene. As you can tell the first image a man with a gun
telling us its an action film, whilst the second image it’s a
woman smiling telling the audience it’s going to be a
rom-com.

4. • The setting is very important for the opening of a film
because the image 1 give a sense of mystery, because the
Mise-en-scene isn't giving away very much detail with
the low lighting. Whilst image two gives a sense of
danger, with the man masked with a gun. Giving two very
different plots of the films and the audiences perception
upon the film.

5. • Upon my research I've learnt a lot about the conventions
of different film openings. I've learnt that setting,
character and genre are all depending of the plot of the
film. So I will have to think carefully about the plot of my
film.