Influences

One of our influences was the TV murder mystery drama, 'Death in Paradise'. Even though this is a TV drama and we are making a film opening, it still influenced us with ideas for what we could include in our opening. The start of every episode of this programme begins with a murder taking place where you see the build up to it happen and then the dead body at the end of the opening, without the audience seeing what actually happened for the character to end up like that. This gave us an idea to do our opening with a similar idea, with the character running away form someone, with no explanation as to what's happening or who is chasing them to build the suspense and tension, making the audience want to watch the rest of the film to find what happened and why.

Even though the opening film 'Se7en' is very different to ours, in the way that our film begins with the murder straight away and ours is less gruesome, we were still inspired by the film in relation to the genre. This film inspired us to change to the murder mystery genre as we liked how gripping this film is and found it exciting following the detectives as they tried to solve the murder and work out what the murders thinking behind it was, as the viewers can follow along with that trying to come up with theories themselves, then finding out the truth at the end.