Does our opening sequence challenge, or reinforce, conventions?

Our clip mainly follows the conventions of thriller films due to:

• The eerie twists on normal settings-girls getting murdered in a park
  
  


• It includes blood, death, murder, a pursuit, mystery and revenge-which are all typical of thrillers



• Similarly with the sound effects of feet running, laboured breathing and screaming.





• The 'mutants' in our sequence are kept, for the majority of the time, under their hoods and at angles where their faces are not clear to the audience. This adds the much needed mystery that is a clear convention of thrillers as they keep the audience watching to find out more.

(here is a screen shot of our mutant[left] and a mutant from the film 'The Hills Have Eyes' [right], also wearing a hoody)

• The girls who are murdered are innocent and have had no direct contact with the mutants, previous to their murders. The fact they are killed to keep the murder of the other child secret is a simple enough plot, but the way the niece of the doctor is murdered by the mutants as the first step in what is to be a long and complex act of cold hearted revenge, is a more complex idea which is a common convention.

However, our thriller film also challenges conventions as:

• It is set in the day/twilight





• The mutants are knowledgable and complex creatures with co-ordination and communication abilities which isn't typical of most past thriller films as a majority of zombie-like creatures are incapable of all human and logical thought processes.

On our group blog, we have also analysed the opening titles of 28 days later. Click here to go to the post on the group blog.

Although only the titles, you can see how uour film is similar as our titles are all in white, with dark backgrounds. The titles in 28days later reflects the theme using blood effects and swift and untidy movements, whereas ours uses just plain white writing, but it is in a font which is reminiscent of bandages or an 'INSANE' stamp, which fits in with our plot and the slow, flowing movement from the right to left refleccts to mutants slow, calculating attack on the Dr.