Summary of Opening Findings

Create an enigma;

Text is used that links into the film but the audience don't yet know the significance -- White noise, Grudge

Suspicion created through colours and atmosphere -- Awake

Death/Murder -- Mirror, Mirror

Introduce key characters;

Another character introduces the main character who we then get a shot of -- Awake

Use of medium shot so you can see their costume, facial expression etc... -- Underworld

Camera moves onto focusing on the person -- Grudge

Introduce key themes;

Use of props -- Da Vinci Code (religous aretfacts)

Love, shown by intimate situations  -- Five Fingers

Knives and guns (death) through use of iconography -- Goodfella's

Montage of images or distortion -- Inner Circle, Se7en, The Covenent, Haunting in Connecticut

Introduce genre;

Dark backgrounds and settings -- Haunting in Connecticut, Underworld, Blade, Awake

Sound of an eery piano, distorted -- Haunting in Connecticut, Awake, Vanilla Sky

Game element -- Spin bottle, Curfew, Five Fingers, Inner Circle

Death/Murder -- Grudge, Goodfella's, Inner Circle

Use of titles;

Psychotic, scratchy text which the sound reinforces -- Se7en

Titles link with the film title -- White noise

Emphasis on main characters -- Awake