Influences

There have been many influences for the concept of our Thriller opening title sequence. The first main influence for our thriller opening title sequence was a video that we had found on Youtube about a couple that had seemed so perfect. We like the idea of their relationship and came to a quick conclusion that we wanted our thriller opening title sequence to be based on this perfect romance idea.

We realized that this alone was not going be substantial enough for us to create a whole thriller based opening sequence. So therefore we began to brainstorm ideas as how this perfect idea can go very wrong. We identified soon into the brainstorming process that we wanted the gender roles to challenge the typical conventions of a film. A film that had contained this gender role challenge is obsessed. From this we took inspiration from the strength as well as the psychotic behaviour of the character, and decided to create a character containing similarities like the psycho in obsessed. 

We had also established that we wanted our target audience to be teenagers and young adults in London, and we knew that the kidulthood film was able to portray and attract teenagers in the most useful and effective way. This inspired us to use teenage actors to attract our young audience, as we knew that they would be able to portray this in the best way possible. Also it is rare to see teenagers in a jealous, psychotic love triangle so this would also challenge typical conventions of a film.

After doing our research into thriller directors we had become fond of Quentin Tarantino’s work, as he used editing to create confusion as well as making it seem as though he is stating the obvious in the opening sequence, when really it is to rick the audience. Also in his Kill Bill Vol.2 film the female was the dominant character challenging the conventions, like we had intended on doing.