Researching film openings

Hi!
On Monday, in our media lesson some further details of the media coursework that: we had to create a 2 minute thriller title sequence. We watched a documentary called “Watching”, as part of our research on film openings. The documentary was about different film openings.
I found the 30min documentary very useful for our thriller opening because it brought up issues that I did not occur to me before.
I said that there were two ways that I could have a big thing that engages and excited the audience immediately in the opening part r the film or have a long tension building slightly puzzling begging.
The advantages of having a big event happening in the beginning of film is that it makes the audience excited. A director named Jacques Beineix said that the risk of instant big thrilling event in the opening part of the form has risk such as the film not able the big as the rest of the film.
The advantages of having a long tense and uneventful happening in the beginning of film is that the audience becomes tense and anxious of what may happen later on.
The disadvantages of having a long tense and uneventful happening in the beginning of film is that the audience is that audience may want to be thrilled very quickly, and if not they may not want to watch the rest of the movie.
Stanley Kauffmann said that the classic opening as stating of with an establishing shot then slowly zooming in to where the character in question was. He said this was good because it show the tone of the film and also gave way to introduce characters.
Kyle Cooper’s title sequence to the film Seven was very effective because of the discrete title sequence. Another example of a discrete title sequence was one by Soul Bass, who I was already familiar with him because I do graphic design AS level. I then saw how I could incorporate what I am learning in Graphics because at the moment in Graphics lessons we are studying title sequences by different graphic designers.
It showed a film called "A touch of evil" by Oren Welles. This film had a very thrilling opening. Universal studios spoilt the tension and the effect that the opening of the film was trying to create by adding fun credits and jolly music on top.
It also showed a favourite trick of film noir – starting the movie from the end
The documentary showed the opening to “The Shinning”. The camera following the car makes the camera comes across as the predator and the car the prey. As the footage goes on, the lighting of the scenery and the background becomes sinister. Also the car is becoming more isolated.
Overall it was a very good documentary and i learned allot from it. :). We also watch 2 film openings that the students in the year before. The were very good. The first one had a very big beginning and there was a explosion. The only thing that wasn't good was when the bomb actually exploded because it was fake.The second movie, my friend Travis did the story board, it was slow and tense and was in the style of Seven, it was great. Id like to do something similar to Travis'. :)