My media product uses forms and conventions of real media products
through the use of genre; opening sequence codes include a variety of shots,
editing, settings, characters, narrative, music, and titles. In my media
product i have tried to combine and create an opening sequence that has aspects
of horror but to try and remain less gory and ‘‘slasher’’ style than most
movies, and more of a ‘‘stalker’’ style. I wanted to create an opening sequence
that was based around one man who was stalking a young girl and kind of pushing
into the psychological thriller sub genre.
My thriller sequence
utilises and challenges the forms and conventions of a thriller genre,
including the bloody horror film genre and more evidently psychological thriller.
The genre of opening sequence i have chosen is a hybrid genre of Horror film. I
have noticed that common conventions from thriller openings usually contain
fast cuts with a little sophistication in the music chosen, and jumpy noises
accompanied by screams and other non-diegetic sound such as camera flash noises
etc, that was edited in using Soundtrack Pro; which was added for dramatic
effect, and to surprise the viewers. This is evident through many David Fincher
films. In Seven, Fincher creates suspense and establishes enigma codes through
the use of mise-en-scene; such as props like cameras, knifes, guns, pictures
and such things as camera angles and shot types. He uses lots of close ups, and
the editing pace is quite fast, this makes the audience continuously feel like
the images and shots are flying towards them because they are being cut from
one shot to the other so fast. This style of editing created enigma codes and
builded up suspense, because the antagonist's identity wasn't revealed; leaving
the audience questioning the characters motifs.
Opening sequence to David Fincher's, Seven.
I wanted to include a similar style to that of David Fincher. I
would do this by using fast cuts, short shots, close ups of everything in the
scene, the use of props and other iconography; such as the use of the colour
red. As well as this i want the suspense of the film to build up by the
audience not seeing the antagonist throughout the whole opening sequence. The
protagonist was Laura McLean, she is a typical protagonist, innocent looking,
blonde hair, very venerable when she is on her own, and likes to dress in the
colour red, she has a special red scarf which she wears everywhere. This was a
key enigma code throughout the whole sequence, as well as the colour red.
This is a clear show of enigma codes, using the colour red.
In my research i have challenged the codes and conventions from real
media texts and many conventions have evidently influenced my final product.
A typical thriller convention and similar to the Horror genre is the
focus of the main character who has a troubled or ominous background. Typically
a male character, i have decided to develop and remain with this distinctive
convention as it allows for the audience to clearly see the focus of the movie.
Mystery and drama are evident traits of the thriller genre. Although not a
psychological thriller, i challenged forms and conventions from Taratino’s
teaser trailer for Kill Bill. Though it takes a slow paced editing technique
from the very beginning, that steadily increases in pace through shot movements
and fast cuts etc. I developed these conventions through my editing style which
is evident in the opening sequence.
Kill Bill also uses the colour red to portray enigma codes of whats to come.
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