Audience research

We interviewed a number of different people and asked them about film openings.


Questions:
1. What do you think makes a good opening?
2. What is your favourite opening?
3. Are characters important in the opening?

From my audience research, I have found that people enjoy something exciting and dramatic to happen in an opening, without giving away too much information, so I have decided that in the nightmare scene of my opening, I will use lots of close ups and there will be no shots of the characters face, so the audience are left wondering whether it's the same character that they see later on in the opening. I also found out that it's important to introduce key characters, so I will try to put across a strong sense of the characters personality throughout the opening sequence.