watching

We recently watched a documentary called 'Watching' on the open sequences of thriller movies. It looked at the title sequence of movies such as Seven, A Touch of Evil and The Shinning. Important people like Thomas Sutcliffe, Director Jean Jacques Beineix, Stanley Kauffmann, Kyle Cooper and Orson Welles spoke about their opinions of title sequences and what they think is important. 

I learnt things like how a film beginning needs to "seduce their audience into long term commitment." 


"A good beginning must make the audience feel that it doesn't know nearly enough yet, and at the same time make sure that it doesn't know too little." this means you want the audience to understand the nature of the film but to also keep them interested, but without telling them too much so they aren't interested. You need to audience to not be able to take their eyes off the screen.


"A favorite trick of Film Noir" is when the beginning of the movie is like and ending.


I hope i will be able to inject some of the information i learnt from watching this documentary into my thriller title sequence.