Opening Scene SHERLOCK HOLMES

Secondly, I anlaysed Sherlock Holmes, ( http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/sherlock-holmes/ )

which is a different type of opening scene. It is a mix between animation and historical atmosphere. It is a kind of Thriller, which units Crime/ Action and Historical sub-genre in a single Thriller. The Actors are Roberty Downey Jr. and Judth Law.

They used always a real shot of a Character or scene, which disappears then into painting on a really old yellowed sheet of paper, which looks a bit like a newspaper from 1800´s or a old sketch pad. This is a really good idea for linking the old historical aspect of Holmes and Doctor Watts with the reamake. they tried also to show a part of the printing process of that time period using the linotype machine and woodblock type headline compositions. As location for this special paper and printing atmosphere they used a printing museum and set up several still shoots to get all the material they needed for storyboards.

This show´s the moment of Character Sherlock Holmes, when the shot of him dissappears into a painting. As you can see they tried to emphasize the old touch with the inc of a fountain pen.

In the Opening scence are the logos of Warner and Village Roadshow Pictures. It is made up really clever it show th elogos integrated into the streets. These sufacing of the street is made up from cobblestones, which was the most common material for streets in city in these period of time, e.g London in Sherlock Holmes.

All the cobblestones are well-crafted 3D instead of real. So the whole sequence is actually created by human hands and with computer software's.

Consequently, it is again not the best example for my own Thriller, but it showed me a nearly perfect opening scene and provided me with knowledge about the importance of a Opening scene and the titles. I learned from this video that the Start needs always to be completely suitably with the whole film. 
So, I should have a rough idea of the plot from my thriller to link it carefully to my opening tableau. 

Opening Scene - THE AVENGERS

I will analyze the opening scene of "The Avengers" to get some ideas for my own thriller opening scene. ( http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/the-avengers/ )

Analyze of the opening scene with a scene, which uses all props of the different Avengers.  

Thor, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Iron Man, The Hulk, and Cap — an assembly of Earth’s mightiest heroes. That is what The Avengers is all about all super heroes from the Marvel Univers in a single film. So the opening scene show´s all the different special props, weapons, shield or armour. 

for Exmaple the armour of Iron Man e.g. the picture I added above it show the special amour from him and with a link to the actor, who plays Iron Man in this case Robert Downey Jr. 

Another Example is are all the gifts, prop´s and item, which the audience know from the film "Captan America" so in the opening sequence are many items used to create a link to all the films, where the different charcaters are from, Iron Man, Incredible Hulk, Captn America, Thor and so on. So the audience is provided with known pictures of their heros. Consequently, each character must be given their due and have a moment with their on-screen credit.

This is the moment of David Banner, the broken glasses represent his conversion into the green Monster Hulk.

BUT, this is a exmaple of a opening sence, which dosen´t correspond my own vision of my thriller scene. This is the cause, because prefer a opening scene with a proper plot and not just a collection of known items. This start of the film with the titles is nearly a mashup of pictures. 

This is a great option, if there were parts of a film before and the opening scene is used to remind the audience on special things, but in my case I create a new film and my aim in the opening scene is to create suspense, tension and curiosity.