Dimond 9

A film opening should in my opinion...

I think that the most important feature for a film opening is for it to be creative. Without the creativity the film opening wont be unique and captivating which means people will be less engaged to watch the rest of the film. A creative film opening also individualises it and makes it stand out from other more generic and ordinary film openings that don't tend to captivate audiences. The feature which I think is least important in a film opening is for it to start at the beginning. Many great film openings didn't start at the beginning and the use of it starting else where in the film makes it seem more interesting to the audience and gives them a sense of what is to come in the film.    
Based on the mark scheme a film opening should...

According to the mark scheme the most important thing in a film opening is for it to be creative. This is what I thought was the most important thing because if the opening wasn't creative then it wouldn't be very captivating and you might not wait to watch the whole film. The next thing that was most important according to the mark scheme was the use of titles/credits. I personally thought that after creativity the next most important thing for a film opening was the introduction of setting. I chose this because in many film openings you are normally first introduced to the setting before anything else. Although you do often see titles/credits appear in the first two minutes of a film, I don't think that it is necessary for it to happen then as there are many films that don't introduce and titles until a little further in. The least important factor according to the mark scheme is the introduction of genre. I personally put this as fifth as I thought it was quiet important but not essential. I thought that having the genre obvious in the opening was important so people knew what kind of film they were watching but thinking about it now it isn't actually that important and it wont gain me any extra marks by making it my priority.