Conventions of an opening sequence.

Conventions of an opening sequence

 

In an opening sequence there are a lot of conventions that are put into it to make it what it is. some of the conventions will be explained below.

 

 

Titles

In an opening sequence of any film they put in titles. from this we can get information about who directed it, who edited it, who the cinematographer is and who it was created by. this just gives the audience a brief bit of information about what has gone into the film. An example of this is shown below, this example is from Wallander - Firewall 7th December 2008 BBC1



 

Distribution and production companies

At the start of any opening sequence it will have the distribution and the production company. This allows the audience to see who distributed the film and what  industry produced the film. The order on which they appear on the opening sequence is the distribution company is first and the production company is second to be seen on screen. The example below is from the opening sequence Memento (Nolan, 2000, US).

 

 

Main purpose

The main purpose of an opening sequence is to give hints to the audience on what the film could be about. Ways they can do this is to slowly introduce the characters or obscure what the characters look like, this then makes the audience ask the question "who are these characters?" and what type of background do the characters have. Secondly it sets the scene of where the film is going to be or is set, this makes the audience ask questions about why is it set there.