Opening Sequences

 Opening credits are a way of showing the audience the people who worked on the film (the most notable people, eg actors directors etc) and they do generally do this is a stylistic way, with cases using foreshadowing and sometimes songs from famous artists as seen in skyfall with Adele. This captures the audience and gives credit to the people who worked on it.

opening credits' focus on the credits, the key creative roles in the film, while title sequences are more focused on the major roles, like director and the main actors

some techniques that are used in an opening sequence are foreshadowing, there are instances which show the parts of the movie that change into a drawing, there is completely animated, and 2d on 3d, complete computer generated, dark/ low light, glitches. 

Alfred Hitchcock's psycho opening sequence is simple yet effective, it shows the credits with a very uneasy score to add to the suspense created. The style used in this opening sequence is inspired by Saul Bass with the animated 2d style. This feeds the watcher both the needed support for the rest of the movie to sit on, the music and lack of exciting/revealing visuals, and credits the people who worked on it. This style is relative old, which could be made on the technology at the time it was made, 1960. Most of Saul Bass' openings were hand drawn and I doubt Alfred Hitchcock would've used any other method, since it worked so well for Saul. The simplicity of the shapes created a reason to stay and watch, since the movies at that time, normally, didn't have anything playing in the opening credits. Compared to films made in the late 2010s, the opening is very long, however this isn't a problem for psycho because it is more interesting than the black text scroll everyone was used to.

Skyfall on the other hand is a very different style, for many reasons, some including, but not restricted to, the time period, and the technology. It is a visually appealing opening, with a lot of foreshadowing that is hidden by all the other things happening in the sequence. Psycho's opening, and all of Alfred Hitchcock's films, were competing with films that didn't have very interesting opening sequences, however the more modern films, they all have very appealing openings, since it has become the norm.  All the symbolism, the hand dragging James bond down, the paper targets showing how he will be the target in the film, all make the audience wonder about what happens in the film. This achieves the effect of intriguing the watcher to watch the film, but also to create ambiguity about it. The colours add to this by controlling the mood. Red for a more scary and tense feel, since the colour red is associated with blood. 

Ready or not as an example of a modern horror thriller. The opening is set in a dimly lit room, panning around looking at board games. This, like in Skyfall, is foreshadowing to the main point/ theme of the movie. It creates more suspense and tension than Skyfall, since a horror movie needs that extra tension, however it accomplishes this in the same type of way, slow moving camera shots with seemingly random items and a font to match the theme of the movie. This shot become the shot for the first scene, which doesn't make the watcher so jarred by the transition between the opening and the first scene. The length of this opening is a lot shorter than psycho or Skyfall's, allowing the audience to not lose interest before the movie officially starts.