I will be researching film openings to get more insight or information on what I could do to make a good film opening for my specific genre. Since I am doing a post-apocalyptic type of movie, I have chopsen to analyze 3 movie openings similar to what Im looking for. These movies are "I am legend" and a "A quiet place"
After some credits of the production teams, There is a news report introducing the plot for this movie. The newsperson speaks with a doctor who has found the cure for cancer, a dangerous disease that is known by everyone. In later shots, it foreshadows that maybe the cure that they found may have led to terrible effects on the world.
The scene cuts to a text that says "3 years later" and proceeds to show a decolated and abandoned city, with no activity. Many environemntal sounds are used to demonstrate the nature of the birds, wind, and more. This effect also lets the viewer know how empty the city is. A car then runs through the city, introducing us to the main character and a dog in the car. All of the sounds such as the car engine, wheels, and nature sounds are enhanced and loud to represent how lonely it is here. And as the opening comes to an end, the main character is following deer to try and get food.
The only issue I have with this is that I dont think ill be able to find anything close to a completely destroyed and abandoned city, therefore I will have to use other types of establishing shots that do not represent activity in the background.
This movie is similar to "I am legend" in that the city is abandoned and environmental and background sounds are very loud to represent how quiet and lonely everything is. We are introduced to a family scavenging for supplies in a store, where the little child wants to take a toy airplane home. One aspect of this movie that I find very interesting is how they use sign language to communicate to stay quiet, aswell as being barefoot to avoid making noise. This hints that making noise could be bad due to some sort of supernatural creature.
The child ends up taking the toy home secretly and on the way back home, he sets the toy off, making a loud noise. The rest of the family is very worried and as the father runs to get his kid, the child is killed by some monster that was in the woods. This movie opening is overall very dark, demonstrating how careful you have to be when surviving in a post-apocalyptic world.
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