Film Opening research (What i've learned)

From watching many opening scenes of films i have learnt that the introduction and opening scene is one if the most important parts of a film. The opening scene is the equvelent of an establishing shot, the opening of a film sets the scene, introduces characters and gives a hint to the story line and the main events that are going to happen in the film.

Characters.

In the opening scene of films we are introduced to main characters but not to the extent that we can predict what is/will happen to them in the main part of the film but we establish enough information about the so that we kno their name, age, likes, dislikes and abit about their personality which helps us to guess or try to predict the story line of the film.






Setting.

Film openings are made to allow the reader to establish where the film is set and to get an idea of the Characters background, financial status, Social status or even to see how successful this character is. By allowing the film opening to show us the setting we are familliar with the surroundings and it also gives the storyline away a little. e.g. if the film opening was made in Las Vagas, then we would be able to tell that the film would be about money, gambling, gansters maybe even crime and fighting..