Analyzing Three Film Openings

 Now for this part of our project we have to research film openings, which I suppose is to get a better idea for our trailer, due to it being a thing to give an idea of what the film we are making is going to be about etc etc. For my first research, it is one of my favorite culinary movies that I have already researched, its The Menu. This movies opening features the main two characters Margot and Tyler, who are waiting to board a fancy boat/yacht. This boat will then lead them to a fancy restaurant that Tyler was an enthusiast of the main chef Slowik. The overall set tone of the scene is cold, precise, and very sterile as everything around the boat and the people are viewed as rich or fancy, setting a sense of exclusivity. Tyler is like a fanboy of this event so he's very excited, while Margo is skeptical. This simple opening sets up the class dynamics of the movie, showing that it has to do with higher classes.

My second movie choice is Burnt, the movie starts with the main character Adam Jones, shucking oysters in a small grimy restaurant, while keepin a notebook check of him having to shuck 1 million oysters. This scene has a voice-over the scene of Adam revealing his purpose as to why he's shucking oysters, and that he's punishing himself over mistakes made back in his culinary career. His completion of 1 million oysters is the goal symbolizes his nature with obsession and his need for redemption over his mistakes in the past. This scene can help me achieve a sort of plot setting for my film, similar to Burnt.

For my third movie opening analyze, I chose Chef, the 2014 production. This movie starts with the introduction of Chef Carl Casper, not much is shown about him but other than his skills as a chef, being very careful and precise with cutting and cooking. It is a very fast paced scene, going through a lot of the steps of him creating a dish. Involving a bunch of close up, different camera angles and movements creating such a cool and satisfying scene to watch. If I do choose to do a culinary video, I will definetly take inspiration from these scenes, as some are very creative in the way of showing how some things are cut or prepared.