Film opening scene charts

 As part of my research I watched three opening scenes to three different movies, all different genre's and sketched the different diegetic and non dietetic sounds heard throughout, and also different shots that I felt stood out to me whilst watching each clip. 

HALLOWEEN OPENING SCENE (1978)



The first clip was of the film Halloween (1978 version). Whilst watching, I noticed that there was not much diegetic sound, more non-diegetic, such as creepy music, which set a haunted mood and atmosphere to the clip. 

The shots that stood out to me were ones which created tension and a sense of horror, which describes what the film is going to be full of, such as the shot of the murderer pulling the knife out of the drawer. I roughly sketched these scenes, as shown to the right.

AMELIE OPENING SCENE

The second clip was of the French film, Amelie. From watching the opening scene, there was a weird and unusual feeling to the film like none I had ever seen before. There was a lot of diegetic sound, a man speaking french almost throughout the whole clip, but also non diegetic sounds - gentle music being played in the background, played mainly by a piano. 

There were nine different shots that stood out for me, which I sketched as I watched the clip. The majority of the opening scene was showing strange things happening, for example - a time lapse of a woman's stomach growing from pregnancy, sperms swimming towards an egg, and a girl (Amelie) playing with dominos and her hands, making weird noises. 

TRAINSPOTTING OPENING SCENE


The last clip was of the opening scene to trainspotting. I created the chart, showing the different sounds; diegetic and non-diegetic, also showing some of the different shots that stood out as being interesting to me whilst watching the film opening scene. I sketched the sound movement and a rough sketch of the shots that I felt were the most important to what the film is about. The opening scene for this film was very heart racing, noisy and all based upon living life on the edge; taking drugs and so on. This is all shown from my chart I created.