Codes and Conventions of Film Openings

There are a lot of codes and conventions to film opening which some have similarities and differences.

Production Logo & Distribution Logo

Film opening often start with a production logo or a distribution logo.The production logo and distribution logo tell the audience which film company produced the film, an example is Disney-pixar presents or 'Walt Disney pictures'. These logo's being shown at the start are important as audiences will want to know what company has produced the film, audiences might like one particular film company so it's important for these film company logo's to be shown. that work on the movie. Depending on the budget of the film or the publicity created for the film these production logo's or distribution logos will be edited in a form that relates to the movie.

Logo's

Here are some production,film company and distribution logos

Begin with establishing shot



Films often start with an establishing shot,an example of a film with an establishing shot is scary movie two.The film start off with an extreme long shot showing a big house in the dark (0:03).From the house this creates an effect which is showing the environment and surroundings before you see any characters.The technical codes in this opening scene is music, the music creates an atmosphere of elegance and also makes a mood jolly with the type of music being played.A genre convention in this film is at 3.07 when the character starts to cough, the character coughs while on the toilet and has fly's on his face .This section of the opening scene has horror in it as he has fly's on him and also coughing but they don't make the horror scary to make the audience scared so it's an hysterical way to make the audience laugh as he's on the toilet with fly's on his face, this is a genre convention as the bit i just described about has humor.



Another establishing shot at the opening scene of a movie is a film called Men In Black.The establishing shot is different to scary movie as the shot in men ib black is like a moving shot where as Scary Movie two establishing shot is a still shot. In the Scary Move Two shot you can just see a house so you don't really know the environment to well but where as in Men In Black establishing shot you can see that they are in a remote location such as a desert.A symbolic code of Men In Black is the costume the main character is wearing and also another character wearing in the background is wearing the same costume (0.11).The symbolic code can signify that they work for a organization or work for someone.

Title of the movie



The title of the film is in the opening scene, the title of the film in which it's presented can suggest the content of the film or the film genre.An example of this is Transformers Three Dark Of Moon, From the title of the movie it gives you suggestions or hints of what the genre of the film is and also the content of the film, with the way that it is presented.From the title of the movie the genre has sci fi in it as you can get it has a robotic or mechanical things happening to make the title "Transformers 3" this is a convention in the opening scene.