Throughout the whole opening sequence I contributed towards each element within the product but I felt that my best work can be seen in hair and make up. This is because being a female, with required expectations on how to look through pressure from society, I am able to understand the importance of appearance and am therefore able to apply my understanding towards the characters in my opening sequence. For example, the youthful female used within my opening sequence has blonde, thick hair representing a typical convention towards thrillers. This is because it has been seen in many films, such as Hitchcock's Pyscho, Jaws, Scream 2, Saw and many more. Blonde victims are portrayed to be gullible, weak characters who lack intelligence and ultimately make a perfect victim. The female's outfit showed her character because she's wearing clothes that cover her body, which I felt would be powerful to use as it makes the audience question the females self worth and opinion on herself because she has her body covered up throughout. This relates to the audience because a lot of young girls are shy to show their figures and ultimately have low self esteem, so I was confident that by adding this into my opening sequence would gain, particularly the female audiences of the opening sequence because they would be able to relate. Therefore I felt it would be best to make sure the female character would be blonde in my opening sequence so it showed my understanding of conventions within a thriller. However, I then became creative with my second character who is played by a male. I used a slightly older character who had a sophisticated look to him to show my own unique twist on my opening sequence. Using the materials that I had to create a strong male allowed the audience to feel a sense of security and comfort, the male character is misleading to the audience because he has this strong approach to him, yet as my opening sequence goes on there is a clear show of vulnerability and therefore tricks the audience. Another character of which I was in control of costume and make up is the killer. I was sure to dress the killer in dark clothes and masked his face in order to in-heighten the sense of enigma. Having an unknown character to the audience makes a tense atmosphere and a sense of vulnerability is thrust upon the audience. Having a masked killer in black clothing follows the typical conventions of a thriller and therefore I wanted to include this into my group and I's opening sequence. Due to the audiences reactions to the characters who were dressed to my accord and had myself take care of their appearance, I saw a lot of positivity with regards to how approachable the characters where and how their appearance had drawn the audience in. Therefore, with regards to my creativity and understanding of my thriller opening sequence in hair, make up and costumes it shows my complex understanding of how to get the audience to enjoy the opening sequence and be drawn to the main feature of the film - the characters.
My opening sequence can be likened to a varied amount of other successful thrillers such as Scream 2 and Hitchcock's Psycho. This is because in Scream 2 there is a clear show of iconography which is a knife and in my opening sequence I was eager to use this iconography as it shows the conventions of a thriller clearly because knives are widely used withing thrillers. I felt by using my first victim as a blonde female it would follow the plot of Scream 2 as one of the victims is a youthful blonde victim as well as show my understanding of thrillers and the conventions to follow in my own opening sequence. I also used a blonde victim as it shows that I gathered this inspiration from Hitchcock's Psycho and Scream 2 to show that when I decided to include this type of iconography and use of blonde victims I researched into it first so that I would gain an in depth understanding of how I would go about filming my final product with my other two group members. I feel that I have used inspirations from both these films and therefore my work is most alike these two films, showing my clear understanding and shows that I was able to gain ideas and inspirations from other films and then my ability to adapt these conventions into my own final product.
Scream 2 
Hitchcocks Pyscho
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