Because we have decided to do a genre of crime drama for our opening scene I decided to research some film openings wth the genre of drama on the website Art of the title.
Forrest Gump
This film opening is very simple and only includes one shot of the feather floating down to meet Forrest Gump's feet. The titles of the film are not layered in anyway or put in creatively and are more just put on top of the shots. I feel like when we do our opening we will try to include the titles more in the shot. There is a non diegetic music paying softly in the background and this means that the audience can't hear anymore sounds. The opening does not give a lot away that happens in the film and only introduces us too one character.
Goodfellas
The titles in this opening come on in a swiping motion linking with the sound effects of the opening that reminds me of cars driving past. The opening also includes that it is based on a true story which is what we will need to put in our opening. The scene then cuts to the police car driving on the road and the date of when the even happened. For most part of the opening there is little titles and more dialogue that would be used in the rest of the film. However at the end of the opening the titles go back to how they were at the beginning with this time though there is a song playing. The titles aren't included in particular to the opening except for the fact that they are linked to the sound of cars.Snatch
The beginning starts off in silence showing only a black screen and the titles, I think for our opening we should include a black screen because two of the openings I have looked at have them to put the titles on. The opening then goes to an extra of dialogue with no titles included. This is until the next shot of a security camera with people inside a lift and music playing in the background. In that shot the titles start reappearing. This opening reminds me of Goodfellas because of the order in which events and the titles happen.
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