Contrast the method used to make the opening sequence of the Matrix and Frankenstein both appealing and exciting, to their respected audience.

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Through analysing, compare and contrast the method used to make the opening sequence of the Matrix and Frankenstein both appealing and exciting, to their respected audience.

What makes a film good? It’s crew? The actors who star in it? Its ability to tell its story? The amount of special effects it has? Many would say it is a mixture of all four but to make a film appealing, to make an audience sit for two to three hours to watch the whole thing the film needs to be exciting, and it might take all of the things mention above to do it or it might only need one, but it has to be there. And how can a film even start to keep the audience? To have an opening sequence so exciting and bewitching that it is impossible to look away. The Matrix and Frankenstein successful fulfil that. Not only do they excite and appeal, the stories they start with are perfect preludes to the rest of the film.

Even though the settings of the two films are completely different, one, an industrial, compact city, the other the middle of the artic, they both have prominent feelings of desolation. In Frankenstein, there is physically nothing there, only a vast plain of snow, ice and fog, with every small sound echoing for miles and even the Matrix is built up with houses and apartments it still feels truly lonely. No other people are seen apart from police officers, the men who all look the same, and the mysterious girl in black. This helps the audience empathise with the characters, they have no one, everything is against them and they are trapped. Also the audience can sympathize with the character therefore letting them get more involved which would heighten their excitement as different things happen to the characters. Both films are set in time divisions from our own, the Matrix in the future and Frankenstein in the past, this would increase the appeal to both movies as its somewhere the audience has never been, never experienced before, and as everyone has the curiosity to find out what it was like, people would want to watch it. You never notice the colour of the screen till it either changes or you are told about it. Both films use colour, the matrix has a green tint the whole way through and the settings and costumes are all dark, whereas with Frankenstein, the prominent colour is white after its dark, stormy beginning, this could symbolise a new beginning for the characters or purity but in this film it feels more lonely and bleak, it shows the fact there is nothing not even colour, maybe not even hope.

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Both of the films use quick camera shots, to aid with the dramatic tension. Frankenstein not only uses it on the boat, with the falling sail, the dramatic crash and when the man falls over board but also uses the same technique for the killing of the dogs, which is actually the same dog but just in different angles. This short sharp action builds up the suspense and excitement, as the audience cannot completely see what is going on, they are left to work it out for themselves. Another good shot is the hand on the snow. This is ...

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