Analysis of Simular Opening Sequences

Battle: Los Angeles

The title sequence to 'Battle: Los Angeles' is very similar to the idea we had for our movie. As we are using the opening title sequence to give the audience background information about the lead up to the battle, by including it in a news report, it both informs the audience, and makes for a good opening. This new report also allows the producers to show who made the film, and any other relevant companies that have contributed to getting this film to where it is now. Once our film title is shown, we want to send the audience straight into the action of the film, and by using intense music with a heavy climax, this will increase the tension already built up in the audience. 

As the news reports are being read out, and the relevant companies are shown on screen, the lack of footage will force the audience to listen to the majority of the dialogue being read as a voice over. Because their full attention is focused on this speech, they will get a betted understanding of the lead up to war.

Again, once the title of the film has been projected, films moves 3 years ahead, and to let the audience know this, we will do a similar technique to this film, by simply writing the time and date across the bottom of the screen like a CCTV camera. This will not only let the audience the time difference between the two scenes, but it will also give them an idea as to the severity of the war, as it has lasted this long since being declared.

Star Trek: Into Darkness

As we intend, this opening sequence requires a few establishing shots, telling the audience where the characters are, although the exact whereabouts is not know, the audience are given the main idea, that they are running through a different planet in an attempt to return to their space ship. Within the dialogue, the audience is also told this, as well as their intentions. This will become useful with the opening sequence to our film, as because the locations we are using are not actually the building we are intending to make it out to be, for example we will may be using our college as a filming location for our scientist's lab/office, when it isn't so, the audience are made to believe the building is.

Captain America

Captain America uses intense music in its opening sequence, foreshadowing the chain of events about to occur. Their is a build up of background music, before a loud, intense sound due to the discovery of a ruin and Captain America himself. This could be used in our opening scene as the build up to the action, where we intend to play a news report that has no action but is there to inform the viewer, however once the news that a war has been declared is mentioned, an intense 'bong' sound can be used to create a sense of urgency, leading into some action.