Analysis of openings

What an opening should be:
The opening of a film should give the audience a sense of what the film is about and draw in the audience. It should be edited simply and still really show off the films characters and general. To make this I think that do this a director must show the theme with the choice in music, setting and decide which characters should be shown, it could be done in a flash foreword style of narrative, such as Easy A and Molin Rouge or they can just do a montage with a select song from the soundtrack.

Professional made films made openings:

This is England.
Director: Shane Meadows

This opening starts with quick cuts with really show off the 1980s culture and most important parts of that decade, the films uses a mix of happy joyful news such as weddings, and depressing violence of gangs. The film then goes into a close up shot of a young boy waking up, the setting around him is grey and quite common, I think that they used this to show the git of the film and the fact the film looks at the working class. The dialogue is plentiful, we get introduced to the main character straight away, for the opening scenes, who is a young boy. The theme is shown though the rough dialogue and the rough setting, showing it's dark rough idea of the film.
 The shots are next are wide, showing the education, then a fight breaks out between two boys, showing the friction of teenagers at this time, and foreshadows the conflict with will be relevant in the film.


My week with Marilyn
Director: Simon Curtis

This opening showed the famous Marilyn in a golden dress, showing Marilyn as her famous self and how she was adored by others, the camera then pans to show that she is being watched on the scene by a lot of men, which shows are main character, fore-showing that they will meet later on. We get introduced to the main character straight away, showing him to be mesmerised by Marilyn's beauty.
 The setting shows a traditional English home, which gives the impression of an upper class stereotypical England. We see this during a flashback narration, a choice as it was based on a true life story in the past, I think it was also used to draw in audiences to find out what happened with the young man and the famous actress.I thought the opening was slow however, it didn't really show what was going to happen, and the pacing was a little boring as most of the time was taken to establish characters.

Submarine
Director: Richard Ayoade 

This film opens with the main character looking solemnly on the weekday, the shot shows his bedroom with dark lighting. The room is very blue, with posters on the wall. It gives evidence of the characters mode, being that of sadness. Then it leads itself to a narration, where Oliver (the main character) talks about something profound, while the camera goes round the town in Wales where the setting is, showing a dark blue sea and sweet small British white town homes.
The opening is short and sweet, which shows the main character being a bit out of the ordinary.