1. Thomas Sutcliffe is referring to the opening of a thriller, when he says "films need to seduce their audience into long term commitment. While there are many types of seduction, the temptation to go for a instant arousal is almost irresistible'. The first part of a film is crucial for grabbing the audiences attention and ensuring they continue to watch the film and be intrigued to know what the outcome is.
2. Director Jean Jacques Beineix believes that strong openings of films lead the audience to wanting to know more, this creates a problem as the film must answer all the questions that the audience want to know the answers to during the opening sequence. The risk is that the questions that the audience ask may not be answered.
3. The beginning of the movie must establish the narrative and characters without revealing information, the tone of the movie must be set however it is important that too much information is not given away so that the audience are drawn into the film. After an opening of a thriller, the audience must feel like they do not know enough about what will happen, but they must want to know more.
4. Stanley Kauffmann describes a classic opening as an establishing shot (such as of New York city), a close up of a particular building, then a shot of a window and then the camera would go past the receptionist desk into a private office, showing the character. This shows the location of the film and the occupation of the character or hero, therefore, it introduces a film without any dialogue.
5. Kyle Cooper's title sequence to Seven is effective because the title sequence includes shots relating to the thriller, the title sequence introduced the main character without revealing information, thus becoming the first scene of the movie.
6. Orson Welles wanted his film's opening to be a scene without credits and title music as he wanted the audience to be immediately drawn into the story without having time to prepare for it. However, Universal Studios removed the effect that Orson Welles wanted by adding the titles to the opening sequence.
7. 'A favourite trick of Film Noir' is when the opening of a film is actually the end of it, this means that the audience will want to watch the film so that the know the destination of it. The beginning of the film is infact its ending as it reveals what will happens at the end.
8. The opening of The Shining creates suspense as the car is being tracked by the camera in a way that makes you feel as if the car is being followed as if by a predator, the audience are made to feel as if the people in the car may be travelling to somewhere that they shouldn't be, this creates suspense and anticipation which keeps the audience on edge and wanting to watch the film.
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