1)The Mentor is a horror-thriller movie. In the opening we see a student stalking then killing a girl. He then washes his hands and the weapon, then exits the school.
2) Some credits, the killer is revealed (the protagonist), the setting is shown and genre signifiers are shown.
3) White text is a convention of the horror genre, and it is also in a font that looks like typewriter font, which is another convention of the genre. The title "The Mentor" is also scary, as it implies that the killer is the "mentor"; the role of the mentor, to help people, contrasts with the killer's actions.
4) I think our opening is ambiguous. The audience should be scared of the killer, as he has just killed someone. They will be eager to find out more about him, why he killed the girl, if he goes on killing and if he gets caught. The opening is full of enigmas, as the audience is unable to know why these things are happening in the opening.
5) Setting - gives the audience a sense of where the film takes place; Barthes' Cultural codes, the audience will be able to assume more about the setting of the movie from the opening sequence's setting.
The introduction of the main character - The audience know who the film will revolve around, so they can assume what will happen in the movie, i.e. follow the killer as he kills people.
The introduction of the genre - I think the connotations of the horror genre that we included in the opening easily show the audience which genre the movie will be.
6) I think my project is quite effective as a film opening because it clearly shows the genre of the movie to the audience, while also having hermeneutic codes, such as who the killer is, why he killed the girl, what will happen to the killer.
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