Film Research - Film openings


The Notebook (2004):

• Silhouette of a man in a rowing boat on a lake at sunset. Sky is red and orange. Silhouettes of birds flying and reeds on the river bank.



• Names of the cast and the title of the film appear in quite small text in the bottom left corner. White, Times New Roman font.



• Over shoulder shot of old lady looking out of her window watching man on lake.



• Establishing shot of big house behind the lake.



• Slow paino music playing softly and slowly.

Influences for our film: The use of insignificant font for the titles is a nice idea as we want the plot to be the main focus right from the start. Also the soft, slow piano music was really nice and would ease the audience to relax into the film.

Titanic (1997):

• Old fashioned footage of wiping over each other showing people waving as the Titanic departs.



• Footage is in a sepia effect.



• Cross fade to full screen of ocean water and the title TITANIC fades on to the screen

Influences for our film: The use of sepia to determine the past and then colour to determine the present. It would be something we would probably think about using if trying to film more of the film, to show our main character before she went in the coma.

A Walk To Remember (2002):

• 2 Jeeps speed into establishing shot at in industrial site.



• Teenage boys and girls get out the car, most of them have been drinking.



• Night Scene, jump off a tall tower as a dare



• Get chased in their cars by police, 1 boy crashes his car as he has been drinking.

Influences for our film: The opening of this film had a lot of action and could fit into the middle of the film, it didn't nessecarily seem like a opening scene.

Stephanie Beard