Film Openings and Audiences

Different Film openings attract audiences in different ways, for example it could be the mise, sound, editing, or camera work that makes us want to keep watching. Depending on the genre, it could attract a large or small audience. From our research action adventure was the most common genre to watch by an audience. Usually in a film opening, a lot of music is used and small amounts of dialogue, this makes the tension build up and attract the audience a lo quicker because if the opening is just filled with dialogue and they have no idea what is going on, it can bore the audience.  The most common shot used in an opening scene, is an establishing shot to set the scene and make it clear to the audience where it is starting/shooting, this also helps the audience of knowing what the genre is. The film opening also gives an insight to the film and what it could be about.  The film opening can also establish the main character through the film opening with the sequence of long shot, mid shot and close up which can attract the audience to find out who the characters are. The use of mise and sound is so important, the props they use and location can make an audience appeal to what is showed on screen. For example in horror films they use sound to build tension. By establishing the main character in the opening scene, it will help attract an audience as this also gives the audience what the characters are like and their features. The hypodermic needle theory is used in films to inject information to the audience in a subtle way, to influence peoples actions in real life. This will help us when creating our film opening because we can do right what other films openings didn't do. With the help from our research we can create better shots that engage the audience, cool location shots and the right implementation of props relevant to the film.