MADE IN DAGENHAM AND THE ENGLISH PATIENT

Today in class we looked at a variety of different types of film openings to expand our mind to new ideas and so we could gather inspiration from them and use some of these ideas in our own film openings.  The two film openings we viewed where two different genres, this was good because it meant that we could see different types of openings and see which one inspired us, which will help us decide what type of film opening we want to create. The first opening we looked at was the English patient, which opened with a very close up shot of someone painting, the close up was focused on the hand. They appeared to be painting a mountain or something similar, after this they then had a cross dissolve to an aerial shot, which is now in Egypt. This shows what the person was painting and its very effective the way that they showed her painting before which created enigma. The other one we looked at was made in Dagenham, which opened with an establishing shot which makes the audience want to find out more, then it went straight into women working. I think this will really help me with my film opening as there where a lot of close up shots which where very effective which made me think about the type of close up shots I want to do and also inspired me, as they where both very creative openings.