Summary of General Film Opening Structures

I recently had to research the opening of 3 different films with different genres. The films I chose we're Deadpool, The Avengers: Age of Ultron and Insidious. I identified the major actors, film titles which gave me the understanding of the basic structure of film openings.

Deadpool

Twentieth Century Fox Presents

In Association with Marvel Entertainment

Some douchebags film

Starring

Produced By

Written By

Directed By

Title of film

The Avengers: Age of Ultron

Written and Directed by

Produced By

Executive Producer

Co-Producer

Based on the Marvel Comics By

Director of Photography

Production Design

Edited By

Costume Designer

Visual Effects Producer

Music By

Insidious

In association with Stage 6 Films

An Alliance Films

I’m Global presentation

Haunted Movies Production

 A James Wan Film

Insidious (Title)

Major Actors

Smaller Actors

Casting by

Costume Designer

Music By

Edited By

Production Designer

Director of Photography

Line Producer

Co-Produced by

Executive Producer

Produced By

Written By

Directed By

In summary most of the opening structures are different to each other.  From the research that I have gathered it shows thats two out of the three examples I have start with the companies that worked on the film with them (An alliance film and Marvel entertainment). There are other similarities with the example that I have used as once again two out of the three films end with Directed By. But Avengers age of ultron doesn't end with it because they start with Directed By. This is also known as a auttor, this means that the most important thing about the opening structure is hosing that he or she directed the film because certain film watchers go to film because of who directed it. Insidious and Deadpool are the opposite way round compared to Age of Ultron and you can see this because produced by and written by and directed by are all last but with age of ultron they start with them.

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