A discrete movie opening is one where there are no clear give aways into what the film might be about, there are just a load of images placed on top of each other, there is also quite a lot of editing in the opening to make it harder for the audience to make out any of the images, so they dont really understand what the film is about.
A traditional film opening: (Panic Room)
A traditional film opening is one where it is kept simple, and you give the audience some sense of the idea of what the film will be about, in the Panic Room it started of by having shots of the city, they made it clear that the film is set in new York, we knew that by looking at the cabs and the buildings, Even the credits were really simple, they were just neatly placed on the screen to fit in with the images behind them, the credits actually looked apart of the building that were on screen.
Credits over a blank screen (Dead Calm)
Credits over a blank screen does pretty much what it says on the tin, it is just the credits appearing on screen in a fancy way, there are no images in this type of opening because the whole idea of having a blank screen is that you don't give any storyline away to the audience, normally there will be a backing track to play alongside the credits to set the tone of the film but that will be it.
Stylised editing (Mezrine)
This type of opening involves hundreds of editing shots that would take a lot of time to put together, this opening was just 2 minutes of edited material, we were looking at the same people on the screen but we could see them from different angles, this is good in some ways because it lets the audience not only have a point of view shot of what the person is looking at, but we can also have a close up of there face so we can look at their emotions.
Credits over a blank screen (Dead Calm)
Credits over a blank screen does pretty much what it says on the tin, it is just the credits appearing on screen in a fancy way, there are no images in this type of opening because the whole idea of having a blank screen is that you don't give any storyline away to the audience, normally there will be a backing track to play alongside the credits to set the tone of the film but that will be it.
Stylised editing (Mezrine)
This type of opening involves hundreds of editing shots that would take a lot of time to put together, this opening was just 2 minutes of edited material, we were looking at the same people on the screen but we could see them from different angles, this is good in some ways because it lets the audience not only have a point of view shot of what the person is looking at, but we can also have a close up of there face so we can look at their emotions.
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