'Borrowing' ideas

I would love to use some sort of 'type-writer' font in the opening titles because this links with the whole idea and theme of journalism and writing. However, this is a modern day production and typewriters are no longer used, but the font style is.

I typed into google 'top 10 films on journalism' and I got some results. I then placed the names of these titles and had a look at their opening title sequences.

 'All The President's Men'

From 00:30-00:40 there is a fantastic use of a typewriting with synchronous sound. The effect of the punching sound mimics the sound of gunshots which could very well be used in a journalism/psychological thriller.












Next I had a look at the opening of 'American Psycho' and I just can't explain how perfect I think it is. Every shot and word that he says (in his head) tells us how introverted he is, and it's excellent!
My absolute favourite shot and piece of script is from the point 01:59-02:27. He peels off a facemask whilst talking about how no one knows the real him, and how what everyone else see's is all just a disguise. The impact of the physically removing a 'layer of skin' off his face while uttering these words is just so clever. Although we don't have a scene where we see our lead character talking about his daily routine, I can imagine that if we were to create a full length film, a scene like this would definitely be included. I love how they get across that he has such a strict routine, which can be seen as weird or just particular. This is the kind of sense that I would like our lead character to show when we see him sat at his desk.

Research

This lesson our task was to research similar films to our idea. As our thriller is psychological, I began by typing 'top psychological thrillers' into google and then had a look through the results.

I initially started looking at the 'Dexter' trailers as they have an excellent use of inner thoughts, and I loved the way that Dexter zones out and stares just right of the camera when his inner thoughts are being shown. I think using this in our film would work really well.

I then came across a film from 2002 called, 'May'. It is about a girl who is trying to create a friend. In this she talks about their body parts being nice. Totally coincidently, that is exactly what we want our lead male to be doing in his inner thoughts. The difference with 'May' is she tells the person that she likes their legs, for example. Whereas with ours, he will be keeping it all a secret. Left is the 'May' trailer, from 1:22-1:27 is a perfect example of a chracter lusting over body parts.