Watching Documentary

Watching Documentary about another aspects of movies other from watching it as an audience, today we learned to watch it from the producer perspective and this is what I learned today...

The first five minutes of the movie is really important. In the opening it is really important to make sure the movie grab the audiences. It is hard to do the good opening, because you have to give them a little information which enough to make them curious but not too much that makes they know the whole movie. In the director perspective it is important to know what going to do next. They might have to take risk of not answer the question at all but that is the whole point of the movie.

Because the audience make a very quick judgement on movie so in the opening scene it is not only have to grab the audience attention it also have to establish a bit of the character and a bit of the movie therefore the audience knows what kind of movie they going to watch.

There is two ways in doing the opening sequence either shock the audience or another way is to settle the audience and leads them in to the movie. This is a typical opening scene that we often see in the movie. 

Start with Establishing shot to show the location >>> then building >>> then window >>> then pass receptionist to the set>>> see the character 

This might look like very simple opening. However, the audience already take a lot of information from this. From the start we already know that where is the movie taking place, what is occupation of the hero and we already know that something going to ruin this normal peaceful world. 

The best kind of title sequence is "No Dialogue" the story is telling through film language which include mise en scene, sound, camera and editing only these it can do more than telling the story it also setting tone for the movie. 

The title sequence of the movie se7en is very effective because even though it doesn't tell anything about the movie. It establish tone of the movie and also establish the obsession of the character. This is very effective as it makes the audience feel like it is a part of the movie, It setting a tone for a movie and also foreshadow what kind of the story going to happen.

This is couple of example of title sequence

Stepfather
The fact that he put all his equipment in really organise way suggests that his obsession. From this we already knows that the film going to be about psycho murderer.

In this shot when we see the blood it foreshadow the bad things that going to happen already.