How a Sequence Sets Up the Genre

Having a sequence at the beginning of a film can help the audience decide what the genre of the film could be. Take the film “Skyfall”, it has a long but explanatory opening sequence, all the pictures and animations help build up the genre of what the film is about. There are certain aspects of an opening scene that can determine the genre of the film; one of those aspects is the music.

The music can help build up the genre of a film by how the music is. If it were a horror movie, then the music for the opening sequence would be quite creepy and low leveled. But if you look at an action film, then the music would be loud and in your face kind of music. Another thing that could help build up a genre would be the animation and coloring.

When designing the opening sequence, they have to take in account the genre of the film to help them decide on the colour, music and layout. Its different for if the film is an animation, but for a real story, then you have to think hard about what the design is going to be. If its an action/adventure film, like “Indianna Jones”, the opening title would have to have natural colours to help discover the genre, and the music would have to be quite up beat and catchy.

 There are many things that can help an audience understand the genre of a film. Most of them come down to how well the designing team did to help make the film more readable in that sense.

  

Spoiler Review - Inception

Inception is mostly just a film about where you can have a dream inside a dream, inside a dream. The idea went round for years and some try it. Two men, Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio), and Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) are extractors, they preform corporate espionage by using military equipment to get into someone subconscious and extract information by doing shared dream.

Dom and Arthurs target is a Japanese businessman named Saito (Ken Watanabe). When they tried to extract information from Saito, it failed when a part of Dom’s memory comes into the equation, his wife Mal, (Marion Cotillard). While out his subconscious, Saito tells them that he was testing them to s

ee if Dom’s team is capable of preforming the task of “inception”, planting an idea into someone else’s subconscious.

Saito’s plan was to get Cobb and his team to plant an idea of dissolving a company into the mind of Maurice Fischer (Pete Postlethwaite) heir, his son Robert Fischer (Cillian Murphy).  Cobb’s only agreed to do this for Saito because he Saito said that he would drop the murder changes on Cobb, and if that happens that it can allow Cobb’s to return home. He accepts and Cobb gets his team together.

Cobb and his team have to get Robert Fischer somewhere isolated. Cobb sedates him and brings in the extractors to dream share. In the first layer of the dream, one of Cobb’s team created it in rainy downtown. The team abducts Fischer, but because we are in Fischer’s subconscious, he has trained subconscious to protect him, Saito gets wounded. Another of Cobb’s teammates temporarily takes the look of Fischer’s godfather, Peter Browning (Tom Berenger), to get Fischer to reconsider his fathers will. Yusuf (team member), drives the team around while they are going in the second layer of the dream.

Now, Arthur dreams up this layer, it is hotel. This time instead of abducting Fischer, they recruit him. Once on their side Cobb, his team and Fischer go to the third layer, snowy mountain fortress. To get out all the dreams there has to be a sort of “kick” to wake them up at once in all three layers. In the hotel, Arthur placed them all in an elevator to hold them down. In Yusuf’s he drove off a bridge so when they hit the water the “kick” will bring them back. Saito finally dies from where he was wounded, and Cobb’s projection of Mal sabotages the whole thing, she kills Fischer, sending them both into limbo. Cobb and Ariadne enter limbo to find Fischer and Saito, while Eames sets up the kick in the third dream.

Cobb remains in limbo to find Saito, but Ariadne finds Fischer and pushes him off the balcony of the house they were in. That resuscitated him at the fortress, where he enters a safe to discover and accept the planted idea: that his father wishes him to be his own man. All the team but Cobb and Saito follow the synchronized kicks back to reality. Cobb eventually found an aged Saito in limbo and they both remembered the agreement, they both killed each other to return to reality where everyone is on the plane.

Once arriving in Los Angeles, Cobb’s goes to his father-in-law who takes him home to his children. As he is trying to determine if this is a dream or reality, he gets distracted by his kids and ignores the outcome.

On being a thriller I would rate this 4 out of 5 because it didn't really give that sense of surprise to the audience at the end but did have a good mysterious story.

Spoiler Review - Fight Club

‘Fight Club’ is a film about two men who start a fight club but end up doing so much more. One day two men meet on a plane and start talking. When one leaves the airport and returns home, he finds his house blown up, he then rings up the guy and ask to meet at a pub. Now the man who's house has been destroyed is played by Edward Norton as the protagonist, he’s the everyday man with a normal job who never gets into a fight, but he is the one who forms the fight club in the pubs basement with a soap maker called Tyler Durden, played by Brad Pitt. These two had never got into a fight so they started with each other but then lead into forming a club where anyone comes down to fight.

Now Norton’s character, the narrator, suffers from insomnia, doctors refuse to give him medication but tell him to go to support groups. He attended a testicular cancer support group after fooling people that he was a victim. Once there he felt a release of emotion that relieves him from his insomnia. After the first night he then got addicted to them. When he was going to support groups for a while, a woman who has the same addiction for emotional release called Marla Singer played by Bonham Carter, started to ruin everything for him.

The narrator and Tyler both stay at Tyler's house and start becoming friends. But while the narrator sleeps, he then finds out that during that time Tyler has been making up so plans.
  

With Marla overdosing on pills, she phones the narrator for help but he ignores her, then Tyler answers. Tyler and Marla then start becoming sexually involved together and he tells the narrator to never speak of him to Marla, the narrator was confused but he went along with it. Tyler is the main leader of fight club, although the two started it together. With Tyler's leadership he started up fight clubs started up fight clubs all over the country and they all become an organisation called Project Mayhem. In Project Mayhem, they of course, cause mayhem around the city, this involves killing people to get there own way. The narrator is then complaining to Tyler that this isn’t what he wanted to happen, none of this, the killing, the vandalism and sabotages.

All this doesn’t make sense to the narrator as all of this has happen when he has been asleep. Then he wakes up one day and finds that Tyler has disappeared. He then goes to look for him in all the different countries where the other fight clubs were set up. After he had been to all of the countries, the last one he gets a little luck, he enters are restaurant and finds members of Project Mayhem, and everything is then put in place after one member greeted the narrator as Mr Durden.
Once he found that out he then couldn't spot thinking about it, he phoned Marla and asked him who he was, she said he is Tyler. Once he hung up the phone to Marla, Tyler appeared and explained that him and the narrator are dissociated personalities. Through the film the narrator thought he slept a lot, but when he through that it turned out to be Tyler in control. So everything the narrator hated Tyler for doing, he found out that he done everything, started up all the clubs, Project Mayhem and the killing.

Finally the narrator who is now Tyler, finds that he blacked out and finds himself in a chair tied down his other personality Tyler, who had a gun to his head. There are ten buildings in sight that they were going to blow up. Now there is no other way to stop Tyler other than shooting himself in the cheek, this then kills Tyler but keeps the narrator. And finally everything is reveal to the narrator and he is now done of his insomnia and lets all mayhem loose with the buildings blowing up and the film ending.
On a thriller I would rate this 5 out of 5 because it has that sense of mystery throughout it and then has the big plot twist at the end that answers all the questions and then reveal all.

Timeline: Skyfall

The film I chose to do the timeline on was Skyfall. A timeline consists of all the titles on the opening sequence of the film.
So this involved people like the studios and productions, cast and the production team. The reason why I did this was to understand what is involved with titles, how many a roughly needed and see how they are structured.

Napoleon Dynamite Opening Recreation