Looking at professional opening sequences

We loooked at different professional opening scenes, and we analysed these key features:


Content
Structure
Genre
Introduction to characters
Number of shots
Titles
What we liked


The opening scenes we looked at had different genres from eachother, for example some were action, comic, teen movie's, drama and horror. What i found out from these opening scenes that sometimes the genre of the film would be given away in the titles, as the design and layout of the titles would be designed to show what genre the movie is.


Many Characters in the opening scenes are very relaxed however in comic and action movies it usally starts of with chaos at the begining, i believe this maybe used to catch the attention of the audience immediatley. In contrast horror opening secnes usually start of with a relaxed and calmer scene, and many scenes are taken place in big house's that are usually isolated from the main cities, this is used to build up suspense for the audience.


What i liked about most of these scenes was that they all had a variety of contents and they all introduced their main characters first, this maybe done because the movie will be dominant around them.