5 -Watching Extension Activity

1.Thomas Sutcliffe means when he says ‘ Films need to seduce their audience into long-term commitment. While there are many types of seduction, the temptation to go for instant arousal is almost irresistible ‘. Is that the film needs to immediately please you from the beginning, otherwise what is the point of going to see the film if you are not instantly in love with it. Otherwise how will the Director keep the audience interested?

2. The director Jean Jacques Beineix says that the risks of instant arousal might give all the excitement at the beginning and has nothing to compare it with. The audience will not want to watch the rest of the film.

3. 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 is because the beginning shows too much the audience will loose interest and will not want to watch the film.

4. Stanley Kauffman classic opening would be that the opening should be some fort of establishing shot of the surrounding. That leads the camera going slowly the main characters /objects/place. This will typically show the building it takes place in and then the window in the building, which leads to the action within the room. This works as it allows the audience to know where the scene is going and what environment its going to be in. And to tell the audience what the film is roughly about.

5. Kyle Coopers title sequence for the film seven is so effective as the ways the letters move on the screen like they are trapped and are trying to escape, by using a lot of close ups makes the film mysterious, leaving the audience wanting more. The music is amazing and gives you the creeps. From the opening we might also guess that the characters cutting faces from newspapers, crossing eyes and sawing the paper might be crazy, they might have some kind of mental disorder, maybe they are some kind of mental disorder, maybe they are some kind of crazy serial killer….

6. Orson Welles wanted to achieve in the beginning of A Touch of Evil, suspense by putting in an explosion that the audience was not expecting, he was planning to do this by having people acting as they would on a normal day, and then suddenly have the car explode. However universal studios put title credits over the opening, which ruined the effects. They did this, as they wanted to be recognized and known.

7. A favorite trick of film noir is when the opening of the film starts with the ending, the rest of the film shows the sequence to how they ended up in that position at the beginning, this leaves the audience asking ‘ why did it happen?’  ‘Who caused this to happen?’. However keeping the suspense is very difficult as the action happened at the beginning and we know already the ending.