Opening Sequence 2

Listen to Your Heart Romantic Drama

         This movie starts with a narrator’s voice while showing the credits. The guy is talking about music and that shows that he might be into music, suggest to the audience that he might be a musician or a singer, anything related to music.  
Straight after that we see a long establishing shot of a big city, an ocean and the title of the movie. As this shot is shown, we hear a nice happy piano sound which just makes the audience feel good and interested in the scene.
Cuts to a traversing shot of a street to set the location moving down to middle shot of a few people walking, but one of them comes forward to the camera and that suggest that he is the main character and the audience should focus on him.
After that we see the guy talking another person on the street shown through a mid-shot of both of them. Even though the guy from the first shot is dressed in a black coat and shirt which could mean that he’s got higher status than the guy on the street who isn’t shaved and he is wearing a bit baggie and old looking coat, the shot is equal and the two men take the same amount of space on the screen which suggest that the guy in the coat doesn’t think of himself as something more than other people.
A close up shot of a girl playing a violin is shown. The girl smiles at the guy who is shown in a mid-shot smiling back and leaving some money to the girl. These shots bring a positive atmosphere in the scene as we see the people smile and also the shot of the guy leaving money to the musician supports the idea that he might a musician himself and a person who appreciates music.
We see a long shot of the Statue of Liberty which again sets the location and suggest where the next actions will happen.

Comments: Even though in my research I found out a lot about the conventions of a Drama film, after watching a few film openings I realised that in the beginning of a movie you shouldn't give out too much of the storyline. I like the idea of having a sound in the beginning to set the atmosphere and the mood. It really has a big effect on the audience and I know that because every time I watch a movie, either a sad, scary or happy song it has the biggest effect on me. If there was a sad scene in the movie it wouldn’t make me cry if there wasn’t a sad sound or a song to go with it. If the sound is well chosen it would definitely make me cry. And this is one of the things we want - a response from the audience.