Research into Film Openings

Comedy

SUPERBAD

Generic Conventions:

• Colourful backgrounds
• Comedic body language
• Upbeat tempo
• Slapstick comedy
• foreshadowing the comedy involved (slapping, therefore slapstick comedy)

Horror

THE RING

  



Generic Conventions:

• Eerie non-diegetic sound (movie score)
• Unclear titles
• Fast paced editing
• fade to black editing
• black and white filming
• filming of objects rather than people
• crackling and screeching non-diegetic sound

Romance

 LOVE ACTUALLY

Generic Conventions:

• The continuity of the mention of the word love
• affectionate body langauage. For example, hugging and kissing
• peacful, relaxing non-diegetic sound (movie score)
• naturalistic lighting
• Slow paced editing
• the colours red/pink which connote romance, these can be used in titles or mise-en-scene

This will help us to create our own film openign as it will allow us to understand the genreic conventions of potential genres of our film opening and what we can realsistically do using the generic conventions.

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