Today we are researching into the conventions of our genre. This is important because it will help us get inspiration as well as staying true to our genre.
The genre of our opening sequence is a thriller. We decided on this because it connects to the typical theme and expectations of the thriller genre.
Our Four Influences
John Wick - 2014, Directed by Chad Stahelski and David Leitch.
We chose John Wick because of the protagonist. Essentially John Wick is a mass murderer who kills everyone and anyone in his way. His status and coolness is shown through the reaction of the other characters. We are using a similar idea of the main character killing who ever he wants with the dead bodies on the ground. We also want to show that our main character is terrifying and intimidating by showing the girls reaction, where she is crying. We mostly chose this film for club scene, where he kills heaps of people with a gun. He is a skilled fighter who clearly has experience. We want the audience to think our main character is experienced in fighting and like John Wick will use any weapon he finds to get the job done. The neon lighting colours are similar, to our opening sequence with the blue, red and purple colours.
As a group we also decided that we liked the contrapuntal soundtrack / music in this scene.
No Body 2021, directed by Ilya Naishuller
We chose this film because of the main character, setting and props. A particular scene that made us choose the film was the bus fight scene. A group of men walk into a bus and begin to cause trouble. The fight takes place in a confined space (inside the bus) and he uses any weapons he find lying around to kill. However, he gives mercy to the girl. We are doing the same in our opening sequence, how main character lets the girl leave unharmed. In No Body, Hutch is seen as an anti hero, and a skilled fighter - as we can see, he can take down multiple people alone. The theme of violence is similar to our opening sequence. Both characters in no Body and our opening sequence have an element of mystery.
Punisher 2017, Marvel TV and Netflix
We chose two particular scenes that captures elements that we want in our opening sequence. Firstly the hammer fight scene, the man character uses a hammer as a weapon. We also want to use hammers as our weapon.
Also the main character is experienced in fighting, like our main character.
Drive 2011, directed by Nicolas Winding
We chose this film because of the main character. We took inspirations from his outfit. He is memorable for his jacket. We wanted to do a similar costume in the sense that our main character will be memorable and stand out. We also liked how the main character is seen as a cool person, he turns heads as he walks into the room.
All of these films/tv shows share a similar main character. All of them feature a male badass who are compitent in fighting and holding their ground alone agaisnt many other fighters. All my examples are all action heavy with violence involved. I think all these conventions are in the thriller genre because it's fast paced and exciting. A thriller usually includes violence, fighting, weapons, dark story telling but can also include dark elements. It keeps the audience on their toes while also having elements of mystery and horror. The impact on the viewer can make the audience think, or feel invested in the plot. Action and violence appeals to our target audience of males ages from 15-19. Stereotypically that's what boys of that age are interested in. There are also elements from our examples that are different. All the settings are in completely different places from a club, to a bus, prison etc. Another element that is different is that the lighting varies. However we took inspiration from John Wick with the neon lighting. We also took inspiration from Punisher with the hammers and No Body with the action packed violence. Finally we were inspired by Drives main character jacket and want to replicate the memorable features it has.
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