Video - film Openings : Narrative and Genre

In order to make the research into film openings more thorough i analysed and studied the beginning to the film 'Dog Soldiers'. From it i learnt how even from the first 2 minutes your able to tell a lot from the narrative and what conventions we should be expecting through out the rest of the film. But i learned from the bit that i watched that the film belongs to the horror/action genre Hollywood film in which it's sub divided into a werewolf category of horror. From this genre we immediately have various expectations of what conventions we should be seeing through out the film e.g Blood, death, violence, hidden villain, guns and explosions. We have also established the Proppian narrative of characters for example, the main character will aim to protect his troops from any dangers they face in order for them to survive. One of the villains will probably have to rely upon the main character for help. The other villains will attempt to disrupt the situation, and the donar is the girl friend who presents the dangling cause of the film in the form of a silver knife.

With the help of this research i will be able to use these conventions to create a narrative and as well as structures within my own gangster film.