Research into film opening sequences & conventions.

To get an idea of the most effective opening sequences, we looked at a variety of genres, some films differ in the way that, most action and thriller genres that are Hollywood blockbusters, tend to grip their audience from the word go.  This could be with action shots, so an audience would be interested and effectivley want to watch the rest of the film.

We saw this in films like:

Blade 2: 

http://www.artofthetitle.com/2008/03/31/blade-ii/

In this opening, an audience is shown, the famous actor Wes Snipes, giving a voice over that explains, who he is and what is going on in the film, which works effectivley. The images are dark and violent representing what the films is about.