Today in Mr. Rivers class we started out learning about what makes a good opening scene, and how to recreate the goodness and how to avoid the badness. When learning about the bad he showed us the first scene of the movie called Dune, where they cut to outer space just looking out at stars in the distance with a woman narrating the story to us, what's even worse is that she had very little emotion on the setting, and is shown on the screen with this weird fade in fade out effect at what seems like random times. They for a good opening scene we were shown the opening for boogie nights, this was the better opening scene having one continuous shot throughout the scene, the shot consisted of the camera starting outside pointed at a neon sign then moves to a car driving down the street, the car gets away from the camera then comes back to it revealing one of the characters we’d be following, when they walk into the night club we are introduced to another character that happens to be the club owner, the camera then pans over to the first couple we saw getting out of the car, at a table, where one waitress comes up to them, introducing yet another character. The scene then follows her as she is going across the club, the camera then moves away from her towards the last of the main characters that we are going to see in this movie, looking across the bar with a longing emotion on his face.
He then opened up the class to work on our screenplays and with the knowledge of what would work and what wouldn't, we now know if the screen would look good or not without even shooting it, wasting less time.
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