American screenwriter, Syd Field said that a good film will

In the first ten minutes of Reservoir Dogs we see all the members of the gang that have been brought together to rob the diamonds, they are all sat around a table in a café eating breakfast, they are all wearing suits bar two “Joe” and “Nice guy Eddie”, they are all discussing various topics, and these topics and the things that these men say are all interlinked with that particular persons personality, then after this is cuts to the credits wear we hear, “Hey this K-Billy’s super sounds of the seventies…keep on truckin!” which has an important role in the film, and continues to play some music from the seventies. Now this is a very good beginning to the film, as you watch it for the first time you do not realise that this particular scene has no relevance to the remained of the film. The opening scene isn’t even the beginning of the story, (non-linear film), no the job

of the first ten minutes is to introduce the audience to the characters, so we can see them all together. It tells the audience that this group of men are related in some way (not family), so that later in the film we may see there relationships grow and how they can change over the remainder of the film. But it does not give you a large hint as to the story line of the film.

These beginnings each give you your perception of the film, in Reservoir Dogs you think because you saw all the characters at the very start that you have a better understanding of the film and that you can relate to that character already even though the film has only just begun. In Psycho due to the fact that we met Merion from the start we have a warmer feeling towards her, we have seen more of this character so we feel we no them a lot better, where as if we had met her later on we would not have been as shocked by her murder later on in the film narrative.

In Psycho the first ten minutes is very different Alfred Hitchcock has taken a completely different approach to the beginning of Psycho. It is very different, we start off straight away with the opening credits, we can hear a very sharp quick music (violin) and the names in the credits fly on to the screen very fast from the side and top of the screen, the music and the quick appearance of the credits are to resemble stabbing motions of a knife. Then after the credits have stopped, we see the camera panning across the sky line of Phoenix, then it zooms down to a building and then down to a window, then the camera goes through the crack in the window and into the room. Here we see to people on a bed kissing, one a woman the other a man. The man gets up and starts to change, while the woman who also starts to put her top back on starts of a convers

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