MAIN Post 3: Research into Opening Sequence Designs

I watched 2 clips from the interview of Kyle Cooper, part 1 and 2, in order to learn more about the opening sequences of films. This will help when we think about producing the opening sequence of our film. The two clips are as follows and I made my own notes from them:
Kyle Cooper Interview (Part 1)
Kyle Cooper Interview (Part 2)

After watching these clips I've learnt more about what makes a good opening sequence. An opening sequence is good if it makes the audience want to be nowhere else but right there watching the film, intrigued to find out what the film is going to be about. It should set an expectation of how the film is going to turn out, if the opening sequence is good the film will also be good. This has influenced me as in order for our audience to want to watch the film the opening sequence is going to have to grab their attention and make them want to watch the film. I also learnt that detail and the typography of the opening sequence is important as the typography can impact the effects of the opening sequence, it can help work with other visual codes in creating a specific atmosphere. Kyle Cooper spoke about using CGI (Computer Graphic Images) but as we don't have access to this instead we can use the editing suites in order to portray the detail and atmosphere on screen. The final thing I learnt was that we can be as adventurous as we like when creating our opening sequence, although from researching other short film opening sequences being simple can also work.

This has helped in learning more about the effects of an opening sequence on films and this will also help when we discuss in our group about what we think will work best in the creating of the opening sequence.