Storm breaker opening

In this mini essay, i'm going to compare and contrast Stormbreaker and The Women In Black.


Stormbreaker, firstly is alot slower than average action films, but very well paced, I thought. At first, it starts with nothing but a blank screen with a few titles. Then, there is a soundbridge of a seemingly middleaged man talking quite loudly, as he continues speaking, it begins to fade in, showing a class sitting on chairs, it then pans around individual students, it then gets to a young man, we know as Alex, we then diegetically hear a man call alex up to the front, and Alex does as he is asked. Next we hear the non-diegetic fast paced, bumpy music in the background, and as Alex begings to speak, it very quckly cuts to his uncle seemingly lighting a fuse, or something similiar. It then cuts back to Alex, and we begin to noticed that he is dressed differently to almost everyone in the room, and as the camera goes around the class, we also find out that he is generally disliked by most of his class mates. From the fact that the teenager is seemingly the main character, we can surmise that this film, typically, is going to be aimed at teenagers, or young adults.

In contrast, The Women In Black is completley different, the titles may connote danger or fear, which lets the audience know what they will be watching will be a thriller or maybe even a horror, we can safely assume this because of the dark colours used, and the use of the black background and white writing. From the opening we also know from what the characters are saying, that this is going to be some sort of psychological movie, and this lets us know that the audience are going to have to be older to understand the film, or connect with it.


After watching these openings, we've decided to take things from both. We used Stormbreaker's use of enigma codes in the opening and titles, but we took the 'knowing what you're going to watch' from Women In Black.