The story of the opening sequence + AS WORK

As inspiration Miss revealed different clips of past students works, some good and some bad, some had different values and others had other values. The aim of the lesson was to take notes on the miscenscene, susense, props, camera movement,camera angles etc. The first video that we watched was very inperational and turned out to be the best, it consisted of a title sequence and clip. Very similar to the sleven introduction.The clip introduced hardly any movements of characters but focused on close-ups and 20 seconds of long distance. Before Miss had warned the AS group of the use of long-shots but she herself was suprised by the effect the long-dhot had on the clip.The main stand out feature of the clips was that none used diegetic sound, at first i thought that it would of been impossible for a thriller could be made without digetic sound but after our first clip practice a month ago, I found that suspense was mainly created through the different eddited effects used in a clip. For further inspiration Miss introduced a video of the opening sequence. A documentary which 'in detail' analysed how the opening of a movie has changed over the years. Before cinemas were completely different, you could walk into a theatre at any time, begging, middle or end, and still continue watching the theatre. The film which dramatically changed this trend was by Alfred Hitchcock title ''PSYCHO''. To understand the movie you had to see the beggining or you would end up with a completely different storyline.

The titles to a movie weren't even scanned upon but a revolutionary Graphic Designer by the name of Saul Bass changed this, he made people want to see the opening title sequence. His work consist of ''PSYCHO TITLE SEQUENECE'', ''THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM'' AND '' VERTIGO'' plus many more. All of this allowed the title sequence to escelate while also makin Saul Bass the undisputed Graphic Designer. The title sequence escalated as time went by and this opened new ideas but also sprung some arguments and problems. Problems such as the suspense created in the opening minutes. If to much suspense was created in the opening minutes than the film will slowly become less intrieging and by the end the viewers would of forgot about the actioned acked beggining couple of minutes. The other argument was that if the opening minutes do not grab the viewers attention than the viewers will be expecting a devloping film which does not attract them.