Task 4 - How can a film opening attract an audience?

How can a film opening attract an audience?

According to the research I have made, film opening is the most magical moment, the audience has to place their trust in you whereas this is not easy and can end up wrong sometimes. Silence and darkness is the most precious moment as a film starts and missing the beginning of a film will completely change the overall view on the film

John Schlesinger, the director of the believers movie stated that a good sharp shock is an good idea for a beginning.

This is the beginning scene for the believers movie, by John Schlesinger. The directors sharp shock in the beginning left the audience shocked as this is an good example where an audience will wonder what's next. The beginning of the movie was based on a domestic accident where as the woman was making coffee for breakfast she faced with an tremendous electric shock. John Schlesinger described this as shaking the audience up, where they know they're in for some sort of ride. These sorts of beginnings will always seduce the audience into a long-term commitment during the movie.



From my perspective, a good beginning must make the audience feel that it doesn't know nearly enough yet and at the same time it needs to make sure that it does not know to little. According to Gary Ross's view (writer/director) the beginning of a movie is difficult because your not just establishing characters, your not just establishing a story, your establishing tone and the audience is making a very early adjustment to what this movie is going to be about. This could be whether they should laugh or not or be scared or not and etc.

 





The movie lockout demonstrates an really good example on the fact that the audience should not know a little and not know enough because we know that a mans arrested in this scene but we don't specifically find out who he is or what he has really done.