Week 2 Post 3: Film Opening Research

 Cambridge Portfolio Project

Film Opening Research

Opening 1: Better Off Dead 

(if you couldn't tell already this is my favorite movie of all time) Before we even see our main character, we learn a lot about him through his room alone. We can infer that he is obsessed with some girl (to a comical level) We see a poster of a skier (which is later shown to have his face taped over it) and can infer that he likes to ski. A saxophone is shown leaning against his wall, and comes up again multiple times throughout the film. And between him waking up wearing goggles over his eyes and him getting in the shower with his socks still on we are shown that the film doesn't take itself too seriously.

Opening 2: Baby Driver

I enjoy how this opening tells the audience a lot about the focal character, before even hearing him talk. We see that he is a getaway driver for a group of criminals, and through him vibing to his music while his coworkers are holding up a bank we can infer that he's not new to this. We see that he has a deep appreciation for music and when he flinches at the gunshot my thought was that he's not totally okay with what he does, but he does it anyway to get bills paid or whatever. What I want to utilize for my film is using music to explore the main character.