Toy Story Opening



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Toy Story as been my favourite film since I was 3 years old. It was made by pixar and the quality of the film for the time that it is made in is amazing. You can tell it is a family film straight away for the first scene when the shot turns from the wall paper down to a lot of cardboard boxes coloured imaginatively by a child in to a cowboy weston style town. Then you see a childs hand pop out the corner with a toy and you hear the boy (Andy) voice over the toy "alright everyone this is a stick up" at this point you know it is a young boy playing with his toys. We see Andy's idolisation for woody in the first scene as well as he makes him the hero in his game and from that moment you Know that woody is the main caricature in the story. I think this is a very good opening to a film as it is very efficient and affective for a family film.      


Scary Movie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCJDZwVwJaY


At the beginning we see a typical horror stereo type of a young woman on her own in a big supposedly empty house and there is a phone call from a stranger. They first joke is very soon and you immediately know it is not a serious scary film and you are fully aware it is a spoof comedy. They girl and the creepy man on the phone start talking about scary movies while she goes around locking doors. She then says "why do you want to know my name" then he says "I want to know who Im looking at" this is meant to add a sense of horror but they then follow it up with a joke to keep it light hearted and adds an element of dark humour. They add horror music ironically to add tension then when the horror music climaxes the punchline of another joke it said and the horror music starts again. It then starts to go back to the stereo typical horror movie and she says "i'm calling the police". This opening is affective because it is unique in the fact that it would not work for any other genre.