2. What are the conventions of film openings?
We have made our production company Seraphim Pictures because they are an
British Independent company. We also chose to make Seraphim Pictures as our
production company as we are independent film makers who have a very low
budget. We feel that Seraphim Pictures will help us make our Thriller successful as
they do their own short films and they help independent film makers. Seraphim
Pictures has also created successful Thriller films. Intandem is our distributor. We
chose to have them as our distributor they sell films to larger and well known
companies such as Warner Bros and Sony. We feel that Intandem can help us gain
a wider audience. Similarly, both companies use social media such as Facebook,
Twitter and YouTube to help get a lot of audiences.
3. Thriller openings
In our Thriller, Too Close we used a Traditional opening. The title sequences were located at the bottom right of
the shot throughout the opening scene. We kept the title sequence consistent as we thought the audience
would focus more on the title sequence if it was centred so we decided to put it at the bottom right of the shot so
the audience can see the location of the thriller clearly.
7. Intertextuality
We have used intertextuality in our thriller. In The Stepfather a man is changing his identity while looking in the
mirror, we have done something similar to this where the antagonist/protagonist is putting on makeup while
looking in the mirror. We have also used intertextuality again later on in our thriller where a girl is looking at
something which has not yet been revealed until the camera shot goes to a wide angle at a dead body. Similary,
this is exactly what happened in Brick. At the end of Brick the dead person puts a letter in a school locker and in
Too Close a character puts a letter through a letter box.
