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Although the Oman is a psychological horror, there are still elements of the thriller genre in the film, this is what made us challenge the codes and conventions of a traditional psychological thriller.

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The main character in our opening sequence is the kidnapper this is because the focus of the film is in his obsession with the 2 girls. One that has died and one that he has kidnapped. He is the first character we see in the opening sequence with him entering the grave yard wearing dark basic clothing, this being a black hoodie and blue jeans. This gives the audience the impression that he a lower class citizen through the clothing as well as displaying mystery through keeping his hood up the whole time. The dark clothing also connotes mystery and isolation aswell as presenting him as a bad character.

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The story of our opening sequence is that the abductors girlfriend has died and he decides to stalk and kidnap a girl due to her similarity of looks to the girl that died, planning to kill her the way his girlfriend was killed.  Also planning to kill her on the same day his girlfriend was killed but a year on. This making our film a psychological thriller. This is a typical story of a psychological thriller due to the strangeness of the storyline making it psychotic and the abduction is very typical.
For the opening of the film we used the abductor walking into a graveyard. This is to give the audience the idea that someone has died and it is affecting the man. Visiting her grave is something which is very silent, and the music starts to gradually increase once he is inside the graveyard and afterwards out of it in the cellar. This showing the audience that there is some kind of link between the two locations and the people that are implied to be in them. Through research of looking at psychological thrillers a basement is used very often such as in 'The Call' when the ending scene is in the basement where the abductors base is. Even though you would expect a graveyard to be used a lot, it is not used very much in psychological thrillers.

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For the name of the film and the name of the production company, we used a big bold font that is different to the other titles so that it stands out more. We noticed that this is the case in other thriller films such as seven.

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When creating the titles for our opening sequence we decided to have them in the colour white, this was so that they would stand out more against the dark colours back ground that they would back on to.  We set the font style to a spray paint theme as we feel this would make the titles stand our more and be more creative. We felt this font would work well to the back ground of the title sequence, which is a number of pictures and news articles that link with the story line of the opening sequence, this is commonly used in crime thrillers so we though that it would be a good and creative idea to use in our opening sequence.

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This transition was used to show a combination of different shots and to show the audience different angles of the same shot in a layer effect. We also used colour isolation in the flash backs and changed the speed of the frames, we did this to show that it was a different moment in time. We found that editing techniques such as this is common in psychological thrillers to show the flash backs and different time frames.

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We didn't begin editing any of the recorded footage until everything in our opening sequence was recorded. During the opening sequence we used the following editing techniques: colour enhance, colour isolation, speed changing, different effects such as blur and distortion, music and sound effects. We used different transitions through out the opening sequence to link everything together and to make the footage run smoothly together.

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In our opening sequence, we used a range of different shot types we used high and low angle shots, close ups, longshots/establishing shots an mid shots. We also used other types of camera work such as panning and tracking. All of these camera techniques and different shot types are typical in thriller genre. We tried to make all of the shots we used as creative as possible for example when the kidnapper is looking at the shrine we used candle lighting to highlight the outline of his face and to hide the rest. We also used the low level shots through the kidnappers legs to show the difference in power an hierarchy.

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We didn't want the kidnappers face to be shown in the opening sequence, this is because we wanted him to stay a mystery in order to keep the audience interested. We also felt that by hiding the kidnappers face it makes his character more interesting and intense as we can not make out his personality.

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In our opening sequence, we tried not to show the characters faces too much. We did this to try and create more of a mystery and isolated feel. However we do allow the victims face to be seen on one of the shots. We used a high angle camera angle, using side lighting to highlight the girls face and to show the pale skin reflecting in the light to show her youth and vulnerability. This would be typical of a thriller genre as the shot type makes the victim look weak and helpless, also giving the impression that someone bigger is towering over them.

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We decided  that it would be best to have the kidnapper wearing dark clothes and to have his face covered by the hoodie to make the abductor wear dark clothing, this was so that the character would have is personality hidden and to show. We decided on the costume of a black hoodie and blue jeans to give connotations of a lower social status, making him seem as a lower class citizen.
We used pictures of a girl to create a shrine like image on the wall, placing candles at the bottom of it. This adding to the theme of obsession, as this giving the impression to the audience that he misses this girl and also leaves them asking who the girl was and allows them to start to work out the links between dates, the grave yard and this girl aswell as the audience wondering who the girl is in the basement. Him creating this shrine to obsess over her. This is something which can be seen in psychological thrillers more than other thrillers but is not a common feature of the genre.

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The location of a grave yard is similar to the grave yard location  in the film 'soulmate'. This also a psychological thriller about a woman experiencing psychological differences. The location is the same as ours but in this film it was filmed in the evening, creating a more mysterious and spooky feel compared to our opening sequence.

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Another location that we used in our opening sequence was a grave yard. This location is typical of a thriller film because of the negative emotions and vibes it gives off, as well as giving a creepy feel. We shot the angle of this shot like this to give a secretive/eerie feel to the shot, that its taken from behind the grave stone like the camera is hiding. This almost like the abductor is being watched, making you question his actions and why e is in the grave yard in the first place. This location leaves the audience asking many question.  The grave yard location used to codes of a thriller genre as it symbolises death, this is also a typical convention of a thriller genre film as creepy locations are always used in psychological thrillers. However, the use of the grave yard challenges the conventions of a psychological thriller as grave yards are not commonly used in the psychological thriller genre. Other films that used the grave yard as a location in the film include soul mate and also the oman. Both these films are psychological thrillers and they are only 2 of a few psychological thrillers that use this type of location, this subverts the conventions and codes of a psychological thriller as it is unexpected.

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Although it is a different story line, this film also has dome of the shots in a basement, giving the film the edgy feel that is wanted with thrillers. It gives the audience the excitement of the unexpected this links in with the codes and conventions of a psycholohical thriller as it gives the sence of the unknow, we used this with in our opening sequence and tried to develope upon the conventions to give our opening sequence a edgy and mysterious feel to it that used the codes related with psychological thrillers.

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The setting and location for our opening sequence was predominantly based in a old cellar below a run down building, we chose this location as we felt that it would best accommodate the feel we wanted to achieve with our opening sequence and we thought that it would be a location that could best represent the genre of our opening sequence.  This is a location typical of a thriller especially an abduction because of the the isolated abandoned setting. This is why we used this location.  The location suggests to the audience that the kidnapper is clever and has thought of a hide out where no one can find him or the girl, isolating himself from the rest of society. The windows being covers suggests that inside the location the cellar is dark and dindgey as therein no way that light can get inside, suggesting to the audience that it is the perfect place for an abduction.

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The name of our opening sequence is "obsession", our title fits with the typical convention for a thriller genre film because of the short one worded name of the film. This is similar to real life thriller genre film titles, such as those of Seven, Momento and Inception. All of these follow the typical convention of the short title. The name of our opening sequence fits with our genre of a psychological thriller because the title reflects the mental state of the main male character and also reflects what is happening in the film itself, it tells the audience a small amount of information but holds back the crucial information, leaving them asking questions, this makes the audience want to watch the film to find out what is happening, this is also typical of a thriller genre film. The codes for our title show the dark side to the film, giving the audience an insite as to what the film symbolises and the codes help us to do that through the title. The title for our opening sequence used and developed on the conventions of the thriler genre as we used the one worded title with big fonts.