Film Openings

 NERVE

I choose to discuss this non thriller opening scene because the begging has a lot of interaction with the main character and her computer which is what me and my partner want to do in our opening. I like how she is doing multiple things at once: checking notifications, calling her friend, looking through social media, etc. This is the kind of interaction I want my character to have with her computer to tell us about her and her life in the short amount of time we have. The shots also switch from her physically interacting with the computer to the whole being literally just in the computer screen. I like that its not confined to the computer screen and has little shots of her touching the mouse/keyboard so that the transition to outside her bedroom later will be less drastic. 

ALIEN

This opening this movie give us a "tour" of the ship, the camera slowly gliding through the halls of the spaceship. The sound effects of the electronics, air, and the mechanical "heartbeats" make it seem as if the ship were a living thing. The computers turning on by themselves as we get their reflection add on to this living organism idea- implying that the computers are the mind of the ship. This makes me thing of how I want to depict my evil technology in my opening scene, still but living. Just the sound of the computer working in the dead silent ship with no humans around to control it is unsettling

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SCREAM

This movie is famous for its opening. But I wanted to specifically focus on the phone call between the main character and the protagonist. My partner and I were advised to be careful of phone calls because of how boring they can get. But in this opening scene they keep it interesting by having the character walk through the house, lock the doors, and check her surroundings. I will keep this in mind for when my opening scene has the phone call.