Independent Research On Film Openings

Film Opening Analysis: Deadpool

During the opening sequence of Deadpool, there is an action scene that has been frozen and the camera goes around the scene whilst credits are shown. To start off with you see the Marvel animation which will be recognizable by nearly everyone who watches the film. Putting this at the start of the film helps the audience recognize that films made by Marvel have been successful so this film should enjoyable which would create a larger audience as the people who have been to watch it will recommend it to their friends and family.

The first part of the 'frozen' scene, the camera pans out to show a man who has a mark on his head and then the camera continues to pan around the scene going 'through' different gaps and showing different props like magazines, spilled coffee and a wallet with all its contents falling out. You also continue to see different men all wearing similar outfits who have been beat up.

The text used is san serif and white which suggests a certain innocence about the movie or its hero (Deadpool). The text could also be representative of how the themes and attitude of the movie are quite immature as san serif text isn't very formal in comparison to serif text. The opening credits also have credits such as the ones below which are very comical and set the scene for the rest of the film as being very immature with a lot of adult humour. 

 

 

The camera is just on one continuous shot which loops through the car. Whilst moving throughout the car it shows us jokes put in by the director as well as what we would expect to be the main actors. Instead it calls the Directors “over-paid tools” and Ryan Reynolds “Gods perfect idiot”. As the camera mover, it reveals another name which is then hidden by another object as the camera pans round. The camera starts with a villain and slowly works its way around the car until it reaches Deadpool, before moving outside the car. This builds up suspense as we are wondering what has caused all the stuff previously shown.

During the opening the scene the song 'Angel of the Morning' by Juice Newton. This shows us that the film is partly comedy as it has gentle music over what appears to be a large car crash. This could also be done to show that it is partly romantic as the song itself is about love. This links with the film as Deadpool states that this is a romantic film.

This will help me create my film opening because I will be able to apply the the ideas and knowledge I analysed through the opening into my film opening and make it look professional.