Media Studies

 The key elements of Film openings are:  Key characters, Methods that have been used, Genre specific conventions, and Type of openings. Key Character: Setting, Tone, Main characters, Theme, Openin shot Methods:Metaphor, Character Placement, Dreams, Shot types, Flash foward Type of openings: Teaser, Inciting incident, Cold openings, Day in the Life, Prologue Montage The blantant open Genre- Specific Conventions Cold Open- Humour/ action/ crime prologue- pantsy/ epics Exciting day in the life- Action Summary: The opening sequence is such an important part of a movie becuase it helps you with your first impression of the movie. And they do all that by having the key elements and the purpose of the opening sequence. Purpose To introduce the villain To introduce the hero To establish relationships To establish Genre's To find the plot catalyst The similarities of the opening scene irrespective of the genre is The editing, cuts, and the shot type. Even though they always do it just ...

Avengers   The avengers is an action film, that is about 5 of earth's mightiest heroes and a alien as they go through the struggle of working together as a team and saving the world from Loki(Brother to the alien on the avengers) and his alien army This film opening is 3 minutes and 54 seconds long Opening scene Summary The scene starts off with a unknown voice narrating events that will happen later in the story. It starts off by showing us who the villain of the story will be and there army that they have. And it also shows the Tesseract  the thing that started it all. This connect to the story because it shows how the avengers come together and form the earth's mightiest heroes. The stereotype of this story is good versus evil Some of the most important roles are the hero's and the villains I chose this opening because it highlights the villain and what he us trying to accomplish. Friday   (comedy) It is Friday and Craig Jones is unemployed, having been fired yest...