When looking at my media product I am very confident in the fact that it challenges and fits in with real opening sequences.
I think this because when planning what we would do in our opening sequence we straight away drew a mind map of our initial ideas and was set on challenging the stereotypical genders that are used within thrillers/ psychological thrillers. So instead of the main character being a dominant, strong male who attacks a weak woman, we swapped them around so that we had a woman being the dominant character who attacks a male. We really wanted to do this because we thought it would be a really interesting way of capturing the audiences attention right at the start as well as the clips that were also used to pull them in. We don't reveal to much of the character at all so the audience are constantly on edge and ask "What's actually happened?", "Who are these people?", "How do they know eachother?" and "Why did this happen?".
We kept to the conventions of a thriller by making the costumes dark, casual and also having a blood stained top. Instead of using a knife as the weapon I thought it would be better and in a way more interesting to use a cro bar as I haven't really seen this type of tool used as an actual weapon in other films. The group also brought in that instead of using a car to get away the murderer would be on foot, walking away from the scene. We really used the low key lighting and extreme close ups to hide the identities of the characters whilst still revealing the surroundings by the use of an extreme long shot, still hiding and not realing the character. The music used is an eerie ambient wind to build up a specific atmosphere of tension and uncertainty which is seen in the short clip above. You can also see this in 'Bricks' opening sequence, here is a video showing 'Bricks' opening sequence and then followed by our first shooting:
Also we challenged the equilibrium of the product as right at the start we are shown an extreme close up of blood pouring into the frame, which can be seen in other thrillers but not a lot, which automatically puts the audience on edge as they can't make out and confirm what this liquid is:
I think this because when planning what we would do in our opening sequence we straight away drew a mind map of our initial ideas and was set on challenging the stereotypical genders that are used within thrillers/ psychological thrillers. So instead of the main character being a dominant, strong male who attacks a weak woman, we swapped them around so that we had a woman being the dominant character who attacks a male. We really wanted to do this because we thought it would be a really interesting way of capturing the audiences attention right at the start as well as the clips that were also used to pull them in. We don't reveal to much of the character at all so the audience are constantly on edge and ask "What's actually happened?", "Who are these people?", "How do they know eachother?" and "Why did this happen?".
We wanted to stick to as many of the conventions as possible. When watching an opening sequence to a thriller the titles are most commonly shown in a serious, serif styled font with a light blue colouring, having the effect of a chilling and eerie atmosphere. In our opening sequence we chose to use a serif styled front with a striking white colouring, really making it stand out from the moving image. Here is an example:
We kept to the conventions of a thriller by making the costumes dark, casual and also having a blood stained top. Instead of using a knife as the weapon I thought it would be better and in a way more interesting to use a cro bar as I haven't really seen this type of tool used as an actual weapon in other films. The group also brought in that instead of using a car to get away the murderer would be on foot, walking away from the scene. We really used the low key lighting and extreme close ups to hide the identities of the characters whilst still revealing the surroundings by the use of an extreme long shot, still hiding and not realing the character. The music used is an eerie ambient wind to build up a specific atmosphere of tension and uncertainty which is seen in the short clip above. You can also see this in 'Bricks' opening sequence, here is a video showing 'Bricks' opening sequence and then followed by our first shooting:
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