Film Openings

We looked at many film openings, both in class and out side of college. The genre we looked at the most was Horror, and if its not that obvious we've decided to go for a documentary/horror hybrid (Docu-horror). We watched Three film openings in College, and this is my short review on all three.


The first film we watched was what kicked off the hand held, shaken camera effect. The Blair Witch Project. Starting with a title screen with a few simple sentences explaining the basics of the plot; three students go to Maryland to make a student film about a local urban legend (The Blair Witch) on a two day hike ad never return, then a year later the film and video the students had made was found, and compiled into the movie we all know today.


Our other two films, which are initially the same but in different languages, [REC] and Quarantine. [REC] is the original Spanish film, none the less, the begins are different to each other, but only minutely.
[REC] is about a young TV reporter and her camera man, who cover the night shift at the local fire station in Barcelona. This film too starts with a title screen, describing how many emergency calls where made in Barcelona, and what the where. the last shot was that of 'unclassified' started at four, then changed to five, indicating that this is a different case too the ones that the fire fighters were used to.


Quarantine is almost shot for shot the same. The only real differences are the language (English) and the subtitles are narrated and in a US Army/Government style font, and that it is in Los Angeles.