The purpose of an opening sequence in a film is to establish the visual style of the film, it introduces characters, location, narrative, genre and theme to the viewer.
The opening sequence tends to be a short sequence of around 2-3minutes long aiming to capture the interests of its audience and draw them into the film as a whole.
The main charecters are usually in the opening sequence allowing the audience to gain knowledge on their charecter and follow their actions throughout the opening sequence in order to determine their actions throughout the film, the audience can also become aware of the location and where the film will be set. It is clear that the reason an opening sequence is created at the beggining of the film whether before the opening titles or after is so that the audience can establish the overall style of the film, the gain an insite of what is yet to come furthermore many opening sequences tend to leave the audience puzzled and intreged to what will happen next, leading them to watch the whole film. The opening sequence of a film i would say is the most important scene in the thrillers because this is what causes the audience to make their judgment on the movie... hence if the movie had a opening sequence involving red herrings and enigma's, mystery suspicion and cliff hangers this will be an ideal opening sequence because the viewer would tend to prefer to carry on watching the movie.
however if the opening sequence is that does not include those above, the audience would straight away presume that this would be a boring thriller. all opening sequences of thrillers tend to be the 'make or break' of the films so the directors always tend to focus time on the opening sequence to perfect it.
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