Film openings in Psychological Drama

    Continuing with my filmmaking process, I need to research openings in the genre I have chosen, Psychological Drama. Something I had noticed about these film openings is that they are mostly fairly simple. A good amount of them had simple graphic animations that represented the film while animating the opening credits in with them, which allowed for a smooth seamless look. Since I don't have the resources for animation like that, I am going to take more inspiration from openings with physical people.

    The first film opening I used was a psychological horror film, Us. As often I use this film as an example, there is a great reasoning behind this. This movie specifically has a lot of similarities to the approach I want to take with theming. The psychological themes used in this film as a whole relate to my film idea too. As for the opening, it is very simple, but relates to the plot of the movie subtly. 

    The next film, Whiplash, is a psychological drama. This film opening, in my opinion, is more helpful to the way I would like to specifically open my film. Although it is less relatable to my actual idea. I liked how this film opening had specifically made the viewer more intrigued to keep watching the film. I also enjoyed how the opening started with sound and builds up from there, finally stopping to reveal the moving picture. This film opening is also generally a very strong start to a film, which I aim to achieve with my own opening.

Finally, Joker also had a great example of an opening I would use for inspiration. I really enjoyed the mise-en-scene elements used in this, especially with the color scheme. I think I will specifically use the fact that they made the Joker himself stand out so much from the crowd, you could recognize him from long shots, too. The overall color scheme used in the whole film captures the theming perfectly.