Comparing to other Thrillers:

I feel our Thriller Opening can compare to Sin City Directed by Frank Miller, as this opening has a narrative and there is dialogue which runs through the whole  opening. Our opening has a strong narrative; this therefore compares to Sin City as both intrigue and catch the awareness of the audience, making the audience want to watch more.  I did research several thriller openings before planning and making our own thriller opening, Sin City was one which caught my eye. In our opening we have a narrative however it does become ambiguous and misleading as to who’s Toby Hackett, intriguing the audience further.

Genre is being challenged and subverted using varaition, repitition and familiarity for the audeinces viewing, when veiwing other thrillers of example Cape Fear, Hitchcock’s Psycho and Seven. I noted that all these films use the generic musical conventions of a Thriller-Horror; the music is tense and suspenseful. We have the same music in our opening as we felt this built up the atmospheric environment, therefore are thriller opening is using genric conventions and varying them slightly to make are film different.  While there are comparisons to be made, we also challenged the typical thriller conventions and used a variety of quick paced shots to set the mood of the piece. Many opening of Thrillers have slow paced editing and shots, however with are narrative and when thinking of the audience we felt this would be more appealing to our target audience.   We are subverting the conventions distinguishing are thriller into the industry but varying the generic conventions and therefore creating something different for the audiences.