Evaluation Question 1

Effectively film openings are designed to work as a teaser for the rest of the film and should evoke interest in the audience and curiosity to continue watching the film.

There are four different ways which film openings can be presented to an audience, the names of these are, Narrative, Stylized, Titles over a Black Screen and Discrete.

the opening of Orphan is a discrete opening

The opening to Momento is an example of titles over  a black screen

The opening of Enemy of Stage is am example of a Stylized opening 

We chose to make our Thriller opening as narrative opening. This means that the opening, just like the rest of the film tells the narrative of the film. the titles are shown as the film goes on.



However we challenged the conventional style of a narrative as we put on title over black screen and this was the title 'Captive' which is the name of the Thriller. We did this as we thought it would effectively allow the name of the film to stand out and be noticed by the audience.

This is an example of a film that also has done this 

We conformed to the conventions of title sequences in a film opening. As we followed the conventional order which is:

- Production company 1

- Distribution company 

- Production company 2 &3 & 4

- Film Title 

- Actor 1

- Actor 2 

- Actor 3

- Actor 4

- Actor 5

- Actor 6

- Actor 7

- Actors 8 & 9

- Actors 10 & 11 & 12 

- Casting by 

- Costume designer

- Music supervisor

- Musician 

- Editor

- Production Designer

- Director of Photography

- Ex Producer

- Ex Producer 

However we did slightly challenge the conventional order of a film opening as the title of the film is presented after two of the actors names. (We justified this by claiming our actors were well-known making the order of our titles acceptable).