↬FILM OPENINGS in drama
Films like To Kill A Mockingbird have title sequences that do not have any characters in the excerpt. The close-ups and slow cuts allow the audience to connect in a sense with the child character that although is not ever seen, the voice over and the different elements. At the end of the opening a drawing of a mockingbird is seen that later on is divided reflecting "to kill a mockingbird."
In The Breakfast Club, the audience only see the opening credits along an upbeat background music and then the credits "breaks" into the first glance of the setting of the story, there's a school and the shot is in black and white. The lack of visuals in this opening leaves the audience intrigued of what's going to happen next.
Forrest Gump opening scene starts with a contrast between the ski and the feather that represents the innocence of the character. While the camera follows the feather, the setting of the story is set, a small historic American town. The feather then lands in the shoe of the main character, Forrest Gump, giving the sense of fate because it could have stopped at any moment but it was led to him.
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