We start out opening sequence with a montage of pictures to emphasise the closeness of the two main characters, Dhylan and Tyler. We got this idea of a monatge from the movie 'Proposition'(John Hillcoat, 2005), the movie starts with black and white montage of
We use the conventions such as ‘ordinary people and extra-ordinary situations’. The main character, Dhylan, is just an ordinary guy with an ordinary job living an ordinary life. The extra-ordinary situation is the haunting of Tyler. We got this idea from the film 'Collateral', where Jaime Foxx is an ordinary cad criver but when his world is turned upside down when he bumps into Tom Cruise. This is not something everyone faces in day-to-day life, the same way that Dhylan doesn’t know how to face and fight the problem, he panics and gets scared (this is later on the film, not in our opening sequence). A code and conventions of psychological thriller is that of deceptive mind games. In our opening sequence, there is no playing of mind. We do actually make the audience wonder who the character is when is chows Dhylan in front of a tombstone, it then cuts to a hand held shot of someone emerging from behind a tree and then cuts back to Dhylan still at the tombstone but now the audience can see a black figure in the background, but the audience still don’t know who he is. There are also other deceptive mind games in the course of the film.
We also challenge the conventions of the main character. Most, if not all, thrillers do not have an Asian character as the protagonist. Just recently, Asian actors are becoming more and more common. Take Riz Ahmed for example, he has starred in Four Lions, Shifty and the new movie Trishna. Another example would Freida Pinto, who shot to fame in Slumdog Millionaire.Another character in the opening sequence is Tyler who is of African-British decent. There are many black actors in British films and Hollywood (such as Samuel L Jackson, Morgan Freeman and Noel Clarke) so we are not really challenging any forms of conventions, more the fact we are using them.
One of our key members in our film, Kiyan made his directors chair video.
presumably aboriginal and the British colony, with a sort of meloncholoy music of a little girl singing in the backgrouynd . We have 4-5 pictures of Dhylan, Tyler and a few more friends and 2 newspaper articles of the death of Tyler. With the use of a pathetic fallacy (the rain pouring down), it sets the tone and the greyness of the sky emphasises the atmosphere.
We use the conventions such as ‘ordinary people and extra-ordinary situations’. The main character, Dhylan, is just an ordinary guy with an ordinary job living an ordinary life. The extra-ordinary situation is the haunting of Tyler. We got this idea from the film 'Collateral', where Jaime Foxx is an ordinary cad criver but when his world is turned upside down when he bumps into Tom Cruise. This is not something everyone faces in day-to-day life, the same way that Dhylan doesn’t know how to face and fight the problem, he panics and gets scared (this is later on the film, not in our opening sequence). A code and conventions of psychological thriller is that of deceptive mind games. In our opening sequence, there is no playing of mind. We do actually make the audience wonder who the character is when is chows Dhylan in front of a tombstone, it then cuts to a hand held shot of someone emerging from behind a tree and then cuts back to Dhylan still at the tombstone but now the audience can see a black figure in the background, but the audience still don’t know who he is. There are also other deceptive mind games in the course of the film.
We also challenge the conventions of the main character. Most, if not all, thrillers do not have an Asian character as the protagonist. Just recently, Asian actors are becoming more and more common. Take Riz Ahmed for example, he has starred in Four Lions, Shifty and the new movie Trishna. Another example would Freida Pinto, who shot to fame in Slumdog Millionaire.Another character in the opening sequence is Tyler who is of African-British decent. There are many black actors in British films and Hollywood (such as Samuel L Jackson, Morgan Freeman and Noel Clarke) so we are not really challenging any forms of conventions, more the fact we are using them.
One of our key members in our film, Kiyan made his directors chair video.
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