Different Film Openings

 
Drive (2011)

The movie starts on a black screen with police sirens and then cuts to a city skyline with the song nightcall as the only sound, then the camera cuts to a man on the drivers seat of a car on a low angle. Then the scene cuts to an over the shoulder shot of the same man driving the car connecting the audience with the feeling of the man driving. Then the scene cuts to a POV shot showing the road and a more detailed view of the city on a more normal point of view instead of the city skyline we saw before. Then there is a view from the sky of the road and also a zoom out to make the road look bigger and the car smaller. The scene later is set to a parking lot where we see the car with ore detail, the car looks  abit outdated compared to the cars next to it. After that there is a scene were the main character goes into a room with a bag and seems worried, then he leaves the bag behind and goes out of the room then goes back to driving. This opening scene is really effective in setting the tone for the movie, the main character is seen as a serious driver that leaves a mysterious bag on waht seems to be an hotel room. This makes the viewer intreged on what the character is like.

Good Time (2017)

I think this opening is really good because it establishes the movie’s tone with the many scenes that are uncomfortable to watch, including the close-up of the main character being sprayed as a result of two other inmates fighting. The music selection is really good too because it gives a fast pacing and intensity and at some point the music gets a bit overwhelming, especially in the scene where the inmates are fighting in the cell with all the screaming and the music. This introduction is really effective because it introduces the main character, the main problem of the movie, the different characters, and the way they are related to each other.