Preliminary Research

Before selecting genre, I decided to research on different genres.

Film	Genre/Genre Conventions	How did this scene introduce characters, settings and create intrigue?	What did you like/dislike about the intro?
Extraction 2, 2023	Action Fight, Explosion, Winner, Buildings	This scene gives an introduction of who the main character might be. This can indicate as a Hero, because he was sent for help which makes him look important and useful. This scene also gives the overview of the genre, as it includes conventions such as guns, wars, and explosions. This tells readers that there's more war to come and he will be our “hero”.	There's no absolute way that Chirs Hemsworth, a very well-known actor, would just simply be used in the begging scene to be dead. So it's obvious to people that he would be alive again. This also does not make the surprising feeling which does not bring viewers attention to continue watching.
Pamalia: The Corpse Village, 2023	Horror Blood, Jumpscare, Dark, Death	The scene introduces the plot of the overall movie. It also shows the genre, it being horror. Because of all the conventions such as blood, graveyards and nighttime, it proves that the scene is a horrified genre.	No dialogue which makes it boring to watch. It's an Indonesian film, which in my opinion, is the worst country to produce films.
Uglies, 2024	Sci Fi Unrealistic, Technology, Aliens, Science	The opening scene introduces the plot of the overall film. It mentions that people over 16 get operations to avoid conflict about pollution. Then the movie introduces the overall plot of some people, the “uglies” , who are able to perform this operation. Overall it gives the genre reveal and the plot.  Additionally, this also gives an effect of a subverted genre. Mainly towards it being something the opposite of what they had in the opening scene.	It sounds so foolish and it tries to make people relate to it but it actually makes people cringe. “Not being pretty enough” is not what we want to watch as an audience of this generation. It basically sounds like “pick me”. The casting is bad, it's embarrassing.
(500) days of Summer, 2009	Romance  Love, Breakups, Red, Relationship	The scene introduces the characters before they actually meet each other. So, the scene includes an introduction of the characters' names, and small memorial shots of them as a young kid. The narrator also includes a small detail of whats the movie about “This is not a love story”, this tells audiences that their relationship might be more than a “love story”.	I hate the fact that the narrator mentioned that it wasn't a love story because then it means it has a bad ending. The idea of putting videos of them as a child was so cute and smart.
Johnny English, 2003	Comedy  Jokes, Funny, Family, Joyful	The scene introduces the Hero. I think so because there was a short conversation asking for an agent. Agents are usually used to represent Heros in a concept of helping someone's mission.	I like the movie because it already looks funny from the daydream of Johnny. But I’m disappointed because the opening scene basically tells the audience what most things might happen, “saving the day as an undercover agent..”

Heres a youtube link that my teacher gave me to understand about opening scenes.

In this video, Ive learned many ways to open a film. I like the idea of introducing the plot in the opening scene because it gives audience information of what the movie is about. This can provide loyalty to consumers to avoid having to watch the whole movie. Using this way to open a scene can tell audience what they are going to watch about. I like this because I don't like the idea of waiting till the end to view the plot.

Reflection: We did this section in term 1 before we actually started learning about opening scenes and creating our blogs. This was very easy to make because all we needed to do was just copy and paste for the notes we took and all we needed to do was to create the reflection. Overall I have no issues in this blog, besides the fact that it only has a view information that I can use for ideas and references.