Extension - What is the purpose of a film opening?

From watching "Watching" we can answer the following questions:

1.What does Thomas Sutcliffe mean when he says "Films need to seduce their audience into long term commitment. While there are many types of seduction, the temptation for instant arousal is almost irresistible"

This means that the audience is given trailers and merchandise in order for them to establish a long term connection and interest into the film. 

2.According to the director what are the risks of 'instant arousal' 

Some of the risks are that it gives the audience a bit too much information and that it provides the audience with most of the story line.

3.Explain why "a good beginning must make the audience feel that it doesn't know nearly enough and at the same time make sure that it doesn't know too little"

This is because the beginning of the film establishes a relationship with the audience and for the director this is the most anxious part for him/her as it gives has to give a good impression of the film to the audience. The directors have to make sue that the audience are receiving the right amount of information for them to be satisfied and content on what they are watching.

4.What does critic Stanley Kauffman describe as the classical opening?

He describes a classic opening starting with a long shot, establishing the setting, 

5.Why is Kyle Coopers title sequence the film seven so effective?

The credits tune the viewers to the right dissent pitch and allows them to be apart of  the transitional time that is being portrayed. The opening sequence also allows the audience to get ready for what is about to happen, it establishes the genre and introduces them to the obsessive nature of the film. It also creates an atmosphere of psychotic energy and is effective as foreshadows later events that take place in the film.

6.What did Orson Welles want to achieve with his opening to the film of A Touch of Evil? What did Universal Studios do to it? Why?
He intended for it to be seen without any titles or credit and he wanted to 'plunge' his audience into the story without giving them time to prepare themselves but the studio on the other hand were far more cautious. This resulted the 'effect' to be lost and blunted Orsons Welles chance of originality as its fluency without the credits allows the audience to watch the film and almost makes them forget that they are watching the film at all.

7.What is meant by a 'favourite trick of Film Noir'? What is the trick?
Its a kind of an ending rather than a beginning to look ahead to what's to come.

8.How does the opening to the film The Shining create suspense?
At the opening, the audience are presented with a nice calm natural scenery of the mountains but in the next the scene the camera pursues the camera as a predator, catching the car high up and behind as it remains fixed on a tiny object(car) in such a huge scenery. This suggests that the car is going in the wrong direction and this is what builds the tension and suspense to the film.