Brief analysis of film openings.

Film title.	Genre.	Conventions (sound/info/action).	Info. In credits.	Narrative/storyline of film.
Pulp Fiction	Action - themes of robbery. Guns used.	Fast tempo popular music and lots of swearing, setting of a typical American café sets the scene well.	Mentions: Film makers, starring actors, Director and the title of the film.	First  impression  of a crime and robbery based fast paced  action film  with and  element of comedy.
The dark knight	Action/ adventure - destruction shown from start.	Tension is built through music, screaming and murder. Masked robbers forcing entry. Part of the batman series.	Mentions: Film makers with logo’s.	Villain and superhero,  based in one town.
Final destination 3	Horror/ thriller- Old fashioned fair ground rides with haunting music and clowns.	Screaming Teenagers highlighted as main group of characters, vulnerability comes with youth suggesting they are the main victims.	Mentions: Film makers, title of the film, starring actors, director, editor, producer and co-producers.	There is focus  put on the taro cards which  could suggest  an element of mystery and  fate. Death  at the fair  ground  perhaps?
Pretty woman	Romance	Conversation between a man and a woman on the telephone - possible love interest? Obvious setting - Hollywood. Stereotypes - big houses and flash cars.	Mentions: Director, film makers, starring actors and producers. Classy font used.	Conflict  between a  couple.  Complete contrast  between  working and upper class.
Music and lyrics	Romantic comedy - song title “pop goes my heart”	80s typical cheesy music video shown while credits role. Voice over - “battle of the 80s has beens” - realism.	Mentions: Starring actors, Producer, director and film makers.	“battle of the  80s has beens” - suggests an  artists struggle to continue his more serious music  career. To follow  his former band members  secondary success.
The happening	Horror	Time lapse photography used. Low angle shots used to emphasise vulnerability, also point of view shot used to show her shaking. Close ups on the face used to show reaction well. Multiple deaths. Haunting music with sky turning gradually darker. Screaming heard creating a sinister atmosphere.	Mentions: Starring actors, film makers/ institutions, producers, film title, casting director, costume designer, co-producers, production designer, creative producer, director. Screaming heard and music gradually speeds up with the sky getting darker throughout credits.	People  involuntarily  committing suicide. Psychological  themes. A greater  being causing death perhaps? Maybe the woman shown in the beginning becomes a stronger character  as she is the only  one not being  affected.
De ja vu	Action - busy atmosphere, fast paced.	Up beat popular music switching to more haunting non-diegetic sound. Girl cries out when her doll falls from the boat suggesting dark themes. Music stops when the bomb goes off. Some survivors. Very asynchronous.	Mentions: Starring actors, film makers, casting director, editor, production designer, executive producer, writer. All credits in a typewriter font - quite sinister yet very matter of fact.	Boat party, very realistic until the  bomb goes off. Speculations as  to who might be behind it. Juxtaposition  with the scene splitting.  Suggestions  of time travel  through the use  of people taking pictures looking at memory. And time travel also  suggested through  the use of slow  motion changing  the timing.
I am legend	Action - close ups of face, flash forward, Arial view.	Theme of medicine. Normally thriving city is shown to be desolate (ghost town). Obvious setting of New York. Last human on earth perhaps. The feeling that the deer have taken over the city shown from the stampede.	Mentions: Film makers. Then straight into a voice over of the sport section of a radio station. Switches to a news room giving the hook of someone has found a cure for cancer. Sets the atmosphere.	Cure for  cancer is  found and appears to  have wiped  out the entire population.