How Research Will Inform Planning

From the research I have done, I have learnt about many things that will help me and develop my understanding of how to create a film opening.
For my research I made timelines of film openings, in class we went through and picked out and learnt the conventions of film openings. I learnt that in a film opening, character, setting and time period should be introduced and enigma needs to be created.
I did more research independently and looked at a few different films that are from the psychological thriller genre, these films were; The Number 23, 1 Hour Photo and Memento. By doing extra research on film openings that are in the genre of our film opening, I was able to understand more about the conventions of a film opening from this genre.
I watched each of the film openings and noticed that there were reoccurring features, such as there was a slow pace to them, in Memento the opening consists of one long main shot which has then been played backwards, this creates tension and enigma which are vital to a film of this genre.