Film Opening

What do you think makes an effective "film opening"

• Crisis - "Something going wrong"
• Suspense - an element of curiosity, mystery, enigma
• Location (rural/urban, time, post apocalyptic etc,.)
• Equilibrium - balance
• Disequilibrium - something happen to disrupt
• bomb at coffee shop (maybe related to baby Diego)

Children of Man

Setting: London, 16th November 2027

Narrative: 

• Baby Diego died at the age of 18
• Since 2009 world has gone infertile or something (gives sense of enigma)

Representation: The main character seems he is in his in 40's, alcoholic represented as problematic

                           Seems cynical. He seems indifferent about the death of baby Diego as shown                                        through his framing as he enters the coffee shop. While the others are grouping up in                            front of the TV while he is busy ordering his coffee which is a juxtaposition. After                                he places his order though he turns his attention towards the TV

Location:

• Dangerous
• Polluted
• Dirty
• Faded
• Dull
• Juxtaposition between hi-tech vs decayed and grubby

For my film opening I wanted to do a action comedy type opening with all the research I have done most of the action comedy genre always include a multi-race lead and there are numerous reasons for this.

• Racial stereotyping plays a big part in the comedic aspect (IE: Asians good at kungfu)
• Cultural diversification is used to attract a broader range of viewers
• Helps break the limitation of races in society
• Racial stereotyping also helps to develop the character 

Although some of the jokes made by the actors may seem meaningless it really brings reference from their culture which if some people know it may not be funny but it may actually hurts instead so n certain cases it may not be good to overdo the jokes