- Se7en - Directed by David Fincher
- Layer Cake - Directed by Matthew Vaughn
- L'homme Du Train - Directed by Patrice Leconte
- Strangers On A Train - Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
The opening squence of Se7en influenced our thriller greatly. Its opening is eerie, and uses quick editing and fast cuts to create this. We used this in our thriller opening by cutting between Eve and her stalker. Se7en also uses a lot of close ups linked with quick editing throughout the titles, we also used this to keep up the pace of our opening, and to stop it from being boring. We also kept the titles over the action, just like in Se7en, so that there was no black screen shots, to keep the opening energetic, and fast paced, as is our thriller. However we didnt use a soundtrack, we used a Voice over similar to the opening of Layer Cake.
The voice over is used to tell the plotline of the film, or history which is needed to prevent the viewer being confused. Layer Cake uses this to tell the History of Drugs, which is what the film is based on. We used a voice over, to add an eerie note to our opening, and inform the audience as to why Eve was on the run.
We used L'homme du train and Strangers on a train, for camera shots and angles, as both are set on trains. We used low angle shots of Eve's feet as shes walking to the train platform, this is also used in Strangers on a plane, which used low angle cuts of two people, tracking them through the train station. We also used fast cuts from both films, cutting between eve and her stalker, to show that their story is entwined.
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