"Rise" Film Opening: uses very bold and defined lettering at the beginning and all of the camera angles are very narrow only focusing on very specific and key elements in the soccer scene shown. This focuses the viewers attention and shows a very structured mind set by the video creator.
"Dear Lover" Film Opening: the background voice narrating while the story unfolds is very effective in drawing the viewer into the scenes. The sudden story drop off at the end also leaves the viewer wanting to know more.
"Dare to Thrill" Film Opening: The music and car along with camera angles with so much action suggests something bad is going to happen. The viewer feels edgy until finally the ending appears with all of the individuals looking in horror.
"Always Watching" Film opening: poor video quality and the theme wasn't particularly appealing. Didn't look like much work was put into the project as a whole.
For my film opening genre I chose to do a theme following guy films. Of the several film openings I viewed, several factors that I found to be very important were music, camera angle, dialogue, and even scenery. In several of the film openings, the video starts with thrilling or upbeat music that helps draw the viewer in. Of the videos I watched that had slow or depressing music, these clips didn't have the same effect of engaging the viewer. Camera angles were another factor I found to be very important. Clips with focused and close up camera angles had a far more interesting attraction to the viewer than plain, open, or panning camera angles that didn't have a specific focus. A further element that affected how I judged film openings was dialogue. Clips that had bold words such as "Rise" or "Dare to Thrill" with very little unnecessary dialogue I felt to be far better than clips with continuous dialogue and narrating. Through these two specific clips having little text, they mostly rely on camera and actions to express their goal in the film opening. This approach was far better than many other clips I watched where characters simply talked and narrated, which quickly looses the viewers attention. Finally, scenery was also very important to the clips I watched. Film openings that had interesting elements such as cars and sports drew the viewer in far better than film openings with plain rooms, landscape, or hallways.
Overall, I found reviewing several film openings by other students to be very helpful. These videos helped narrow the ideas I was thinking of for my own video, as well as showing me some definite things not to do in my own film opening.
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