"Our opening for Dazed conforms to numerous conventions of established
film products, namely the 2011 feature Drive. The stark contrast between the
bright pink lettering of the titles with the darker content enabled us to
harbour discomfort from the audience, which we furthered through uncomfortable ringing
sounds edited over black screens. The use of such black screens was also
inspired by Drive but arguably used more consistently in our opening in comparison.
I also found this contrast in content to be similar in the 2017 horror film Get
Out. Also, we adapted the text displaying the days of the week in Seven (1995) to suit our desired style thus developing the form used.
Our choice for an almost complete absence of dialogue is a
convention typical of modern cinema however our choice for a single line of
dialogue partially challenges such. The somewhat inconsistency of shot length
in between the black screens and often enhanced diegetic sound was directly
linked to our focus on the young protagonist. Character driven plots and establishing a perspective
is pivotal in any opening though we intentionally over played it so the
audience is immediately invested in the protagonist. The unreliable narrator is
a common motif of thriller novels and is something I’d love to explore as seen
in Gone Girl, adapted to film in 2014."
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