After scoping the internet and finding very little on what people like to see in the opening of a movie, I decided to ask around my boarding house, as I am pretty sure plenty of films are watched in here.The most common factor that puts people off a film in the first few minutes, is unintentional bad acting, and excessive amounts of credits. A popular example for overrunning credits was 'Superman'. With lot's of people complaining about that.
People in the boarding house like films that seem genuinely interesting, rather than ones that are obviously trying to hook you in, though this is acceptable in comedies such as 'American Pie'. A good soundtrack attracts people to continue watching a movie, and absorbs them into the mood, but it has to be relevant to the situation involved in the scene. Above all, it can be very easy to make the beginning sequence ways too confusing, however though this is sometimes necessary to create a mysterious storyline, it can often put people off, the first scene should always be relevant to the movie, even if it is not obvious at the beginning.
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