Analysis of Film Openings

During our media class we watched the opening of three thriller films. We did this to see what a thriller film opening should be like and what it should include to entice the audience to watch on and see more. A few elements that makes a thriller film more interesting to watch are violence, death, suspense, calmness then a sudden burst of action and a sense of mystery to the story line. I will be using most, if  not all of these elements in my own opening thriller movie to create suspense and shock that a good thriller movie needs to captivate the audience. The three films that we watched in class was Children of Men, Memento and A History of Violence. All three of these films openings created a sense of mystery, suspense, shock and cliffhangers which makes the audience want to keep watching onwards. In my next post I will be describing and analysing how and why these films make as a good thriller movie from there opening scene and how I will be interpreting that into my own thriller film to make it more interesting.