For my AS Media production we created an opening sequence based on mental health and the illness, schizophrenia. Our character, Christopher Morrison repeatedly has dreams about numerous people all very different from each other, however he cant seem to separate himself from them. A murder is then taken place with Christopher being the main suspect. We later discover that he suffers from Schizophrenia and the people in his dreams are his Alta egos. The opening sequence shows Christopher walking through the woods appearing to be very disorientated.
The genre thriller is clearly shown by the sinister diegetic sounds such as music, and the voice over. We chose to keep the dialogue to a limit and only have a voice over instead of Christopher speaking. This is because it's only an opening sequence and we didn't want to give too much away in the first three minutes, as this would keep the audience engaged and wanting to watch the rest of the production. We presented Christopher as an ordinary boy in his late teens dressed normally to anyone in this age group. Using a character with blonde hair goes against the whole dark hair mysterious stereotype, blonde hair is seen as quite innocent which contrasts to Christopher's character. This would immediately create enigma codes as the audience would be wondering why he is presented so harmlessly in the beginning of the film. Later to watch his character progress throughout the film.
Our sequence slightly applies to Propp's theory, although we do not have a princess or the dispatcher, we definitely have the hero; Christopher Morrison, and the villain being the psychological disorder Christopher battling is against.
Our sequence also applies to Levi-Strauss's binary oppositions theory. As we present the dead female to be very weak and vulnerable, in marked contrast to this Christopher is presented as quite a strong and muscular character.
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