Simple and Short

Anyone who is involved in film making will know that an opening sequence is a vital necessity to a good film. It is what the audience first see's and hears , which they make their first judgements on. Just like the saying goes , 'You always want to make good first impression'. This applies to when your making a film, you want to grab your audience in the first minutes. There are many different and exciting ways to do this, but you want to make sure that you have a good mixture of excitement and mystery. You don't want to give too much away but you need to hood the audience so that they want to continue to watch.
A major learning curve for both me and my was our as media coursework in which we had to make an opening sequence. This meant researching opening sequences from around the world. World cinema allows you to compare different cultures and how they channel this through there films. More importantly it was interesting to see how different films would start. Some had massive explosions and other s had a more mystical and abstract feeling. An opening sequence can be shaped by its genre, but we want to step away from that an open ourselves up to a variety of different ideas.
For our film we want to create a comedy piece. After researching other comedic films such as 'White Chicks' we know we have to make the audience laugh within the first few minutes. Its like a rule which is followed thorough out comedic films. This is why we believe that our opening sequences will work. We have designed them so that the audience are laughing from very early on. This is most recognisable in our first opening sequence in which we have a balance of character development and comedy. We have the boys kick a car so that the audience know what type of characters they are , the cheeky grins on their faces is where the comedy aspect comes in. So overall , the audience get to know the characters as well as having a laugh. Even better our opening sequence is achievable , it has no high risk stunts , or impossible location, just simple shots followed by a simple idea.