AS Media Studies: Codes And Conventions Of Film Opening

In a film opening the codes of it should be mostly technical because been produced by the computer of they have been edited by the computer. Sometimes you do see symbolic codes like the facial expression, clothing, setting, colour and the props. In this opening it is both because you see the characters at the start and it is all black and white you can see train and horses here is a example of technical and symbolic codes used at the same time.

This film opening has both codes because it is technical as well because you can see who stars in the film and the cast names in the background also it is symbolic because you can see horses, props, characters and setting. The title is edited because they have used fancy font. There is no logo's in this opening.

Most movies have a logo if they don't have a logo they just put a company logo on. The genre of this movie is adventure drama and fantasy. I know this is an adventure movie because you can see cowboys running around with guns. The title of this movie is called The fall. The convention of this movie will be action because you can see cowboys with guns. This makes the audience think that there is going to be violence and people are going to die.

The starting shot of this movie is an actor head comes out of water this makes the audience think what was he doing underwater. There are no inter-textual references in the opening scene. They tell us at the start of the movie the credits and the cast info for example on the 31 second it shows a man and it says next to him Justine Waddle which suggests that he is part of the main casts.The things you expect to see in an opening of a movie is the directors name characters name and cast name. The opening of The final Destination and The Fall is the same because after a short scene their names comes up.