Codes are tools of filmmaking like music, costumes, scripts, camera angles or framing. Convention is the way the codes are used. It makes the audience understand a character or a scene in a film and even to like or dislike it. To show for example an evil character walking along a street, the music would be threatening and the whole scene very dark. If the character was shown in bright light with friendly music in the background in the same street, the effect would be the opposite.
What Codes and Conventions are used in film openings?/What is the purpose of a film opening?
In a film opening you can always see the logo of the company, that produced or worked on the film, followed by a blank screen or establishing shot with the title of the film. Also, when there are famous actors playing in the movie, they'll be shown in the beginning.
Sometimes film openings show a Flashback, a key event that happened before the acutal action of the film, or they start with one of the characters narrating.
A film opening should make the audience get an idea of the action and characters and make them want to see the whole film.
For example:
Horror
- dark
- creepy
- thrilling music
- screams
- shadows
- gunshots
- sirens
- loud and fast
- Logos of the companys
- blank black screen with producers and title
- dark room
- deep voice speaking
- bloody corpse
- creepy, thrilling music playing
- blank black screen with producers
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