Effective film opening

                            Effective film opening

What does it need?

Crisis - Something wrong going on in the opening

Suspense - To make it a mystery and curious about what is going on in the opening

Title

Characters

Genre - atmosphere and the mood of the type of film

Location

Something that changes the opening, disrupts the balance

                                          Children of Men

Genre 

Action, Thriller, Crime

Narrative

Location: London 27th November 2027

Dirty, lots of pollution, city fading, dull colours.
Youngest person in the world has died at the age of 18. This confuses the audience and wonder how the youngest age is 18 which is baby Diego who was killed by his own fan. Audience has been brought into the future of where there has been some changes that may have caused some chaos which has been shown in the ending of this opening where there was an explosion.

Enigma

The biggest question for the audience was probably why baby Diego was the youngest person in the world. This must have triggered their thoughts that the world might have tried to control the birth rate by stopping it completely which caused chaos.

Main Character

In his 40s and not caring about anything and also and alcoholic which shows that he might have a problem and is washing them all away with alcohol.