What makes a good opening squence?
Cinematography must have interesting shots and always try to capture the auidence.
The narrative must be interesting and must try and be an enigma, it 'hooks' the auidence in.
The sound can try and have dialogue aThe nd music(the music is very important).
M-E-S the location where the character in must make you think why are there and such like and their costumes and props etc.
The editing must have good titles that go with the movie eg. Red titles in a horror movie.
Also it must have genre characteristics eg. In a horror there it must scary not romantic.
Plot
Walter Neff is a successful insurance salesman for Pacific All-Risk returning to his office building in downtown Los Angeles late one night. Neff, clearly in pain, sits down at his desk and tells the whole story into a Dictaphone for his colleague Barton Keyes, a claims adjuster. It is the story of how he meets the sultry Phyllis Dietrichson during a routine house call to renew an automobile insurance policy for her husband. A flirtation develops, at least until Neff hears Phyllis wonder how she could take out a policy on her husband's life without him knowing it. Neff knows she means murder and wants no part of it.
Using ECMS I shall analyses this film but only from 2.21 to 5.44 in the video.
This film does not have too much editing that I could spot all I found was at the end of this scene there is a flashback but apart from that they didn’t edit anything because they want to build up the tension of when he walks into his office room and sits down so you are wondering what is a matter with this man.
When the man walks into his office and goes to sit down the director uses the Venetian blind affect but not on his face on his body. Because of this you can not see the man’s face so it makes him appear like a dark shadow that has done something illegal.
The man sits down at his desk they do this shot with a mid long shop so you can see exactly what he is doing like taking out a cigarette also it shows the atmosphere of the room so that you see he is a powerful man in because of the fact he has his own office and not sharing it with anyone we know that the man was successful. When the man goes to the telephone the shot changes to medium close up and this enables you to see the expressions on his face when he makes this phone call also you can see him sweating and the light on his face to emphasizes his sweating.
The setting in this film is in Las Vegas so that starts us of knowing that he is in a big city were lots of crime happens. He walks in to what we assume is a warehouse or factory as when he enters the factory he looks down to see a lot of desks and people working there. Some props used in this film is the telephone I think they do this because it is easier for the man to confess what he has done over a telephone than face to face at the police station even though he is given all of his information like he was in a police station. He walks into the room and sits down to his desks and when he takes out the packet of cigarettes we can see how stressed he is because he can not even face to take his hand and pull one out like he is in shock also many people like to have cigarettes when they are stressed out.Also the room is a prop because this shows that he is a powerful man as he has his own office.
From when this man is walking into the room it has music this kind of music is sort of mysterious in a way but at the same time relaxing. They do this so that you think that this is just an ordinary man going to work. The director also tries to enforces everything that man does with a sound to show how quite it is as he is all alone in his office. The man’s voice as well goes with his expressions his voice is dull and never changes like he is not scared of anything and he is more in shock.
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