Chapters: 00:00 Intro - Opening Scene Techniques 00:43 The Newsreel 02:56 The Crime 04:43 The Tragedy 07:09 The Setting 09:22 A Day in the Life 11:44 Direct Address
I love where the opening scene are some parts of the plot taken out if context to hook up the audience,later it catches up to it without us even realizing thats so cool
@@LuisSierra42 Thanks, I will check those out. Coincidentally, recently I've been thinking about re-watching all the Mission Impossible movies, 'cause I'm not sure whether I've seen them all. Now you gave me a good excuse to do that. 😀👍
In my opinion "A True Filmmaking" cannot be expressed in words , but you always somehow manage to do it IMPECCABLY. I have to say we're LUCKY to have you STUDIOBINDER. -Praises from INDIA 🇮🇳🙏
The "One still shot" opening. We fade-in to a shot of a setting, a face, or a page on a book. It slowly zooms in as the main credits roll by, and a music cue sets the tone. There's little movement, if it's a location, maybe a bird flies by or rain falls or the light changes. If it's on a face, maybe the characters stares dramatically, or a tear is falling down her check while she applies make-up, or he points a gun to his head. If it's a book, we're allowed to read some of the text before an invisible hand flips the pages, we read and look at the photos or illustrations as the pages flip and the music crescendos. This shot sets a mood for the rest of the story, and the intriguing imagery will be revisited later in the film once more of the plot has been revealed.
The "James Bond" opening. A highly stylized credit sequence with abstract imagery alluding to the plot and main characters, symbols appear, dark silhouettes are animated running across the screen while the text of the credits transforms into a location and colors flash in synchronization with a theme song.
@@StudioBinder Yea Bond always(?) begins with an opening action sequence, which while not always important to the main plot, immediately puts the audience into Bond's world and gets them engaged. Then often the credits follow that. Then the plot begins, and it has the luxury of starting slow because the opening scene had already engaged the audience with (often) a big feature stunt / set / action sequence. Think Casino Royale's parkour scene, or Skyfall's train scene, Spectre's day of the dead parade, or Goldeneye's dam scene. Bond is consistent about making their opening scene perhaps the most memorable in the whole movie.
On the topic of opening with setting, I have always admired the photographic quality of Manhattan and how it contrasts with the comical sound of the writer trying himself to decide the opening of his next book.
You may consider making this: Film opening scenes that have Songs in the background. There's an Indian 2-part Film series by the name: *Baahubali* and Baahubali 2's opening has one of the best opening sequences for a film from India! It summarises part one's story through a freeze-frame kind of technique with an awesome song amplifying it's effect!
Children of Men is in my opinion one of the greatest productions ever put to screen, it may not have great dialogue, but the cinematography, photography, pacing, imagery and symbolism are magnificent as is the internal world building
My favorite opening scene is from a movie 'Nobody wanted to die' ('Niekas nenorejo mirti', Lithuania 1965) -- quite minimalistic, without text, but perfectly introduces the story.
With such a high caliber in regard to teaching film; it’s nice to see StudioBinder including films from the MCU. Their writing continuity is unparalleled and attention to detail in set design for hiding Easter eggs is unmatched. Not to mention their visual effects department
@@increase9896 name another franchise that has made more than 20+ films and continues to release them as well as a streaming service .. and has a UA-cam following dedicated to their breakdowns, industry insider tips and leaks ... I’ll wait and one of the only studios to win oscars for ‘super hero’ films
0:43 Ooh, that describes the opening montage for Shin Ultraman! Almost every shot in the opening is accompanied by news text, like "The giant lifeform appears!" or "The enforcement unit Katokutai has been formed".
Thanks so much for your series on openings. I forgot how incredibly important the choice is how to open your story. Now I know different kinds by name, which makes it easier to make that crucial decision in my own feature.
Talking about striking Opening scenes in The Crime motif, I cannot but think about the spectacular opening of David Lynch Twin Peaks, with the discovery of Laura Palmer's body wrapped in plastic by the river... To this day still shocking!! And, of course, Ridley Scott's opening for Alien... fantastic work of setting the tone and place with camera!!
I would love to see more openings for animated movies. How to Train Your Dragon has an excellent expositional opening, while Lion King has one of the most iconic openings of all time. I would love if those were addressed at some point.
The "scanning the room for artifacts" that tell a back story or set up a character. The camera moves, floats slowly from a framed photo, to a newspaper cutout, to a set of keys, to a book, to a desk, to another photo of the character with a loved one....and so on. By the time the shot stops, you've gotten a lot of information, and the movie can begin.
Film opening can also be used to deceive audience, like in BIRDMAN, the movie starts with a meteor falling into the earth's surface, it tricked me to thinking that this movie can have a superhero or super powers, cuz most superhero movies like megamind and superman starts in a similar way, a extraterrestrial being or object falling to the earth, it also helped in enhancing the ambiguity of the film's climax
I'd like to suggest to the team of StudioBinder that please try your hands on INDIAN FILMS! It's not just "Bollywood" and musical numbers that we have to offer, rather much more! We literally have more than 10 independent language-specific film industries, and due to OTT Boom, we are looking at more "Pan-Indian" films coming these days... And anyway to explain films and filmmaking techniques, language isn't a barrier :)
The opening to all 5 "Ice Age" films can be summarized in this equation: Enter The Hero + The Setting + Plot Catalyst + MacGuffin = Scrat's journey in getting his nut.
Please make a video about the fonts to use for the text displayed in movies. Like in the movie avengers they use text to display the information about the place and the time. Basically a video on typography used in movies.
Now this makes me want to experiment some opening ideas: 1. Where it's randomly puzzling but makes the audeince so curious to understand what the opening means (Like a guy at office suddenly meet Trex with a kid that looks alike him asking for help) 2. Start with Future but the ending is from the past (Basically like succesful business woman flashback to when she's young but then rewinds back to when she's baby and then ends with quote saying that mom's delivering baby is beautiful) 3. Only showing items that tells the characters (Some posters of a K drama with the merchs with tv about the idols to tell the girl is pursuing one of the men) 4. Documentary style (like Natgeo/ Discovery Channel narration but in some formal people's words and interviews about world hunger.....but when intorduce the main character, he is a food delivery) 5. A bunch of collages (multiple panels on one scene showing like comic book style about what all character do at same time) 6. Start with timelapse (like showing how a village starts from a forest since the film is about that village) 7. Start with 1 to 5 minutes of same boring setting without anything to happen first (like audiences have to stare on an empty playground without music track & narration).......this one is basically like seeing on painting/ being calm before the story starts
These videos are really nice and helpful 💯 but I always wonder what about closing a scene. Can you make a video about different ways movie // videos end
I have an important question: can I apply all these film techniques (except those related to music) when creating comics? Looks like a lot of them are good for this
of course! there are ways to panel comic frames to create a sort of "rhythm" to the reader... Big large panel, holds longer bigger scale, smaller panels make subtle intimate scenes; also framing in comic and film works the same, what you put into "camera" is what you want the audience to see
Tarantino's Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction's Opening sequence is unarguably and undeniably the best opening sequence of all time. Period! There. I said it!
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro - Opening Scene Techniques
00:43 The Newsreel
02:56 The Crime
04:43 The Tragedy
07:09 The Setting
09:22 A Day in the Life
11:44 Direct Address
Yes!!!! I love opening scenes even though I hardly ever remember them by the end of the film
There are some opening scenes that will forever be seared into my memory like the dark knight
@@LuisSierra42 ohhh yea. One of the best character introductions of all time for sure
You remember the good ones :)
@@StudioBinder every directors try to make good one in their films .
I love where the opening scene are some parts of the plot taken out if context to hook up the audience,later it catches up to it without us even realizing thats so cool
That sounds cool, but I don't think I've ever seen that. Could you name a movie with that kind of opening scene?
@@philwid9338 I've seen that A LOT!! for example, mission impossible III, Zola, The last king of scotland, the suicide squad
@@LuisSierra42 Thanks, I will check those out. Coincidentally, recently I've been thinking about re-watching all the Mission Impossible movies, 'cause I'm not sure whether I've seen them all. Now you gave me a good excuse to do that. 😀👍
Great technique!
3 idiots,dead pool,the tomorrow war
In my opinion "A True Filmmaking" cannot be expressed in words , but you always somehow manage to do it IMPECCABLY.
I have to say we're LUCKY to have you
STUDIOBINDER.
-Praises from INDIA 🇮🇳🙏
We're lucky to have you guys!
Yes! This is the best filmmaking channel on UA-cam. I love Monday nights.
helping to make you look forward to mondays :)
The "One still shot" opening. We fade-in to a shot of a setting, a face, or a page on a book. It slowly zooms in as the main credits roll by, and a music cue sets the tone. There's little movement, if it's a location, maybe a bird flies by or rain falls or the light changes. If it's on a face, maybe the characters stares dramatically, or a tear is falling down her check while she applies make-up, or he points a gun to his head. If it's a book, we're allowed to read some of the text before an invisible hand flips the pages, we read and look at the photos or illustrations as the pages flip and the music crescendos. This shot sets a mood for the rest of the story, and the intriguing imagery will be revisited later in the film once more of the plot has been revealed.
I think Interstellar is a good example of that!
The "James Bond" opening. A highly stylized credit sequence with abstract imagery alluding to the plot and main characters, symbols appear, dark silhouettes are animated running across the screen while the text of the credits transforms into a location and colors flash in synchronization with a theme song.
This is not opening scene,this is opening credit ,I think
I would distinguish opening credits to the opening scenes, but Bond films usually have great openers!
@@StudioBinder Yea Bond always(?) begins with an opening action sequence, which while not always important to the main plot, immediately puts the audience into Bond's world and gets them engaged. Then often the credits follow that. Then the plot begins, and it has the luxury of starting slow because the opening scene had already engaged the audience with (often) a big feature stunt / set / action sequence. Think Casino Royale's parkour scene, or Skyfall's train scene, Spectre's day of the dead parade, or Goldeneye's dam scene. Bond is consistent about making their opening scene perhaps the most memorable in the whole movie.
You guys are my filmmaking school. Thank you so much!
Class in session!
Die hard with a Vengeance is one of my most favorite opening scenes ever.
Love how simple yet effective it is.
On the topic of opening with setting, I have always admired the photographic quality of Manhattan and how it contrasts with the comical sound of the writer trying himself to decide the opening of his next book.
Manhattan is beautiful ❤
Love the opening of "That Obscure Object of Desire". At first, you're confused, but by the end of the film, you understand the characters' behavior.
You may consider making this: Film opening scenes that have Songs in the background.
There's an Indian 2-part Film series by the name: *Baahubali* and Baahubali 2's opening has one of the best opening sequences for a film from India! It summarises part one's story through a freeze-frame kind of technique with an awesome song amplifying it's effect!
Don't embarrass us ( South - Asians) bro. We discuss about great movies here. No need to embarrass yourself by suggesting Bahubali 2 to someone 😂
@@sluggishhollow2030 hahaha wow
Thanks for the suggestion!
@@sluggishhollow2030 i chose this, just as my example, you may give yours :)
@@StudioBinder Instead of bahubali plz make a video on gangs of wassypur that's a really great indian film bahubali is just overhyped
Opening scenes are definitely the most fun for writers and audiences!
A great challenge for filmmakers!
Zodiac opening is god-tier, from the festivity fireworks from the 4th of july until the crime happens, is pure perfection. So chilling.
perfection
Studio binder is god gift of film maker
Just doing our part :)
Children of Men is in my opinion one of the greatest productions ever put to screen, it may not have great dialogue, but the cinematography, photography, pacing, imagery and symbolism are magnificent as is the internal world building
in the search of a chapter !! i found the entire film school.
love your content....
My favorite opening scene is from a movie 'Nobody wanted to die' ('Niekas nenorejo mirti', Lithuania 1965) -- quite minimalistic, without text, but perfectly introduces the story.
With such a high caliber in regard to teaching film; it’s nice to see StudioBinder including films from the MCU. Their writing continuity is unparalleled and attention to detail in set design for hiding Easter eggs is unmatched. Not to mention their visual effects department
lets not go overboard.
Lots to learn from the films!
@@StudioBinder they receive yet another VFX nod at the Oscars for Shang-Chi 🙌👌
@@increase9896 name another franchise that has made more than 20+ films and continues to release them as well as a streaming service .. and has a UA-cam following dedicated to their breakdowns, industry insider tips and leaks ... I’ll wait and one of the only studios to win oscars for ‘super hero’ films
@@increase9896 oh ... and did more than a billion at the box office 🤷♂️ Cameron’s a legend and still got beat by newbies ...
0:43 Ooh, that describes the opening montage for Shin Ultraman! Almost every shot in the opening is accompanied by news text, like "The giant lifeform appears!" or "The enforcement unit Katokutai has been formed".
So grateful to have found this channel!
We are too :)
Guy Ritchie's King Arthur and its fast paced montage was worth mentioning IMHO
That's a great one too!
The first thing that I do is like the video and then watch it.
I know it's gonna be great
That's the way 👌
Thanks so much for your series on openings. I forgot how incredibly important the choice is how to open your story. Now I know different kinds by name, which makes it easier to make that crucial decision in my own feature.
I just LOVE YOU StudioBinder, keep up the great work!
Will keep them coming!
Talking about striking Opening scenes in The Crime motif, I cannot but think about the spectacular opening of David Lynch Twin Peaks, with the discovery of Laura Palmer's body wrapped in plastic by the river... To this day still shocking!!
And, of course, Ridley Scott's opening for Alien... fantastic work of setting the tone and place with camera!!
All great examples 👌
Awesome!
You guys at Studiobinder are the greatest!!!
Happy to help!
Was really waiting for this exact video
Hope it was worth the wait!
@@StudioBinder yes thank you for the video I personally appreciate your efforts and thank you for replying
You guys are the best! You gave me the inspiration to create my own channel so I can go back behind the camera 🏆
Happy filming!
I would love to see more openings for animated movies. How to Train Your Dragon has an excellent expositional opening, while Lion King has one of the most iconic openings of all time. I would love if those were addressed at some point.
Deadpool opening scene is so epic. We finally got to see the comic accurate Deadpool from Fox Studios
That's a banger!
You always ought to include links to other videos in any series!
Thanks for the suggestion! here's part 1 ua-cam.com/video/Jw_ysaoVlt4/v-deo.html and two ua-cam.com/video/r2vtbcfmFDY/v-deo.html
The "scanning the room for artifacts" that tell a back story or set up a character. The camera moves, floats slowly from a framed photo, to a newspaper cutout, to a set of keys, to a book, to a desk, to another photo of the character with a loved one....and so on. By the time the shot stops, you've gotten a lot of information, and the movie can begin.
Rear Window. A great opening.
That's pure cinema
Sahara does this
This channel is gold
The pre-credit opening scenes of Raising Arizona, mix narration to audience with the plot.
👌👍 Good catch!
Amazing analysis 🏆
cinema is so wonderful
Film opening can also be used to deceive audience, like in BIRDMAN, the movie starts with a meteor falling into the earth's surface, it tricked me to thinking that this movie can have a superhero or super powers, cuz most superhero movies like megamind and superman starts in a similar way, a extraterrestrial being or object falling to the earth, it also helped in enhancing the ambiguity of the film's climax
Good point!
I'd like to suggest to the team of StudioBinder that please try your hands on INDIAN FILMS!
It's not just "Bollywood" and musical numbers that we have to offer, rather much more! We literally have more than 10 independent language-specific film industries, and due to OTT Boom, we are looking at more "Pan-Indian" films coming these days...
And anyway to explain films and filmmaking techniques, language isn't a barrier :)
Thanks for the suggestion!
For me the opening scene is the most important. It determines if people will watch your film
The opening to all 5 "Ice Age" films can be summarized in this equation: Enter The Hero + The Setting + Plot Catalyst + MacGuffin = Scrat's journey in getting his nut.
😂 very precise
Please make a video about the fonts to use for the text displayed in movies.
Like in the movie avengers they use text to display the information about the place and the time.
Basically a video on typography used in movies.
Now this makes me want to experiment some opening ideas:
1. Where it's randomly puzzling but makes the audeince so curious to understand what the opening means
(Like a guy at office suddenly meet Trex with a kid that looks alike him asking for help)
2. Start with Future but the ending is from the past
(Basically like succesful business woman flashback to when she's young but then rewinds back to when she's baby and then ends with quote saying that mom's delivering baby is beautiful)
3. Only showing items that tells the characters
(Some posters of a K drama with the merchs with tv about the idols to tell the girl is pursuing one of the men)
4. Documentary style (like Natgeo/ Discovery Channel narration but in some formal people's words and interviews about world hunger.....but when intorduce the main character, he is a food delivery)
5. A bunch of collages (multiple panels on one scene showing like comic book style about what all character do at same time)
6. Start with timelapse (like showing how a village starts from a forest since the film is about that village)
7. Start with 1 to 5 minutes of same boring setting without anything to happen first (like audiences have to stare on an empty playground without music track & narration).......this one is basically like seeing on painting/ being calm before the story starts
awesome video as always
Cheers!
Another amazing video essay 👏
Enjoy!
love your videos
Love making them!
Midsommar opening🌟🌟🌟
Terribly good
Absolutely love this videos
U never disappoints !!!!
Glad you liked it!
I need list to watch later
Enjoy!
(V.O.) (O.C.) (O.S.) Please we need a detailed video on this issue.
Superb job SB team thank you very much
You should make more videos on building a story
I love this channel
You should see our character arc/4 endings series! Here's one of them on Back to the Future ua-cam.com/video/0txdzPfC-Ow/v-deo.html
yess please do moree i love these
As long as there's a demand, we make it!
My favourite is in Punch Drunk Love when durning calmn morning the car in crashed and harmonium is leaved on the street. Amazaing scene.
Sweet 💯
This is awesome.
That's the goal!
These videos are really nice and helpful 💯 but I always wonder what about closing a scene. Can you make a video about different ways movie // videos end
please do a video on coming of age stories :))) content amazing as always!
Amazon has a low budget coming page movie that is surprisingly good.. Dating Amber
Thanks for the suggestion!
The opening scene in Dune was awesome
The opening scene in Overlord (2018) is f*cking amazing
Starting with crimE in baby driver was good
Great opener!
Superb video
Glad you liked it!
The Batman is a great recent example of the crime technique.
As I commented in a previous video I think Lord of War is the best opening with direct adress
You should do something like this but with how to end a movie
Waiting for next video series of opening scene ........ 🌟🌟💯💯💯
More on the way!
amazing
ILY!!!
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Awesome & Thanks :)
Thanks for watching!
*please cover Bad Opening Scenes* and opening scenes of Series
you should cover whatever it's called when they show the ending first, like in pan's labyrinth (if you didn't already).
Yes I love it awesome
Cheers!
BvS Ultimate edition is the best example of tragic opening IMO
In the Style of Short Story: First paragraph is the entire story
Interesting, do you have a favorite film example of that type?
@@StudioBinder mine
@@StudioBinder Edgar Allen Poe used this in his short stories
Goodfellas has the best opening
all time classic!
How about a video on the screenplay of horror movies?
awesome
guys, the white block with description info is too large, too attentive. it distracts from the movie cut
anyway thank you for your job
I have ideas for an opening and an end, but the middle is where I'm struggling for a couple ideas.
Break down the opening of Trainspotting.
I'm not sure if you've already done this but what about the way music fits different scenes
I would love a breakdown of the matrix
With the help of my virtual lecturer,studio binder I'm able to stand out from my colleagues
Happy to help!
What about Opening with the climax scene and then showing how it reached there. Like in Fight club.
That counts!
What type of opening scene is the opening of Star Wars? 🤔
A Star Wars opening
I have an important question: can I apply all these film techniques (except those related to music) when creating comics? Looks like a lot of them are good for this
of course! there are ways to panel comic frames to create a sort of "rhythm" to the reader... Big large panel, holds longer bigger scale, smaller panels make subtle intimate scenes;
also framing in comic and film works the same, what you put into "camera" is what you want the audience to see
I think so!
what would you consider the "wes anderson" exposition dump intro.
also, used in "AMELIE" etc
What about the opening scene of The Insidious??
are there any films that start with a symbolic opening with symbolism for a key theme or conflict etc in the movie. Or one that starts a motif?
Interstellar starts with the bookshelf, which symbolizes the connection Murph and Cooper create
I think Tragedy can be considered as a subset of Crime.
I think it depends on what the focus is on, the tragedy or the crime
Tarantino's Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction's Opening sequence is unarguably and undeniably the best opening sequence of all time. Period!
There. I said it!
They're both up there!
Which Is The First Movie In The Crime Category? I Mean In This Video🧡
Brick. All movie names are shown in the bottom right corner as they appear!
@@StudioBinder Oohh So That Was Their Names? Okay Thank You Very Much 🧡
Pulp fiction the scene with the robbery!!!
Great scene 💯
🔥🔥🔥
PIECES OF A WOMAN opening sequence is also a great example in technique Tragedy and loss....
Which u missed
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PLS GIVE OPTION TO DOWNLOAD
9:23 nobody?
Could I mix some of them
Tell us about how to end a film
We have a series on four movie endings! You can start with our video on the social Network ua-cam.com/video/unNjjAbrsRc/v-deo.html
The Sixth Sense.
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