Panic Room Film Opening

Generic conventions of a film opening usually consists of sound, editing, different camera shots and mise en scene that helps us create an idea of what the film genre could be. In a film opening, you are likely to see in text the:

• the film title
• Production studio(s)
• Producers
• Director
• Cast + Crew

The font of which these are all shown in also help suggest to the audience what type of genre the film is as a basic font such as comic sans will give the impression its a family/childrens film whereas a more dominant font such as Agency will give the impression it maybe somewhat of a sci-fi genre. 

and in other forms, conventions are likely to be:

• transitions
• a soundtrack

The use of all of these conventions in the opening of the film enables the audience to generate an idea of what the film could be about, the quality of the film by the popularity of the cast, and the how successful the film should be by the production studio, director etc.

The opening of the film Panic Room (2002) features the generic conventions as stated above which is successful in delivering the intention to the audience that the genre of this film is a thriller.