Question 1 (Evaluation)

 Candi Films is an original ident that we have created, this significant ident is crucial to our opening thriller. The layout, format and meaning of this ident tells the audience about what kind of film we made. The typing of Candi Films suggests, the film is somewhat related to socializing by the typing of the production company. This ident, is follows the conventions of a film because the production company always show up first.

New Market is the production company for the film Memento, a brilliant thriller that has influenced one of our intertexualities. This ident also appears first in the film, this is an indication that we have followed the conventions of a thriller opening, we chose not to challenge this because as Candi Films has the most importance in our thriller.

The next title that appers after the Candi Film ident, is 'Produced by Candi Films', this also follows the conventions of an opening because in the film Memento  However, Memento has other titles such as 'In Association with', and we did not and this is because we did not have any partnerships with any companies. We only used titles that fitted to our thriller, and the ones which was relevant to our opening.

Starring appears after the production company, than the directors title; this title doesn't challenge the conventions of the title sequence. We chose to place Starring after these two important titles because we feel that the actor/actress has a significant role in the film. However, in Memento the titles do not have Starring, the main characters like Guy Pearce appears without being introduced, this suggests that famous actors like himself are already known, whereas the characters in Anonymous Attraction aren't famous.

The main title, Memento appears after the castings, in contrast to our thriller opening, we challenged the conventions of the title sequence  We chose to put our title at the end of our opening, and this is because it allows the audience to see the images that appear on the title scene. This unusal placement of the title, is rare because you would normally see the title somewhere at the beginning  As out media product is unique, it stands out to the audience.

Another reason, to why our title is at the end is because if we put the title somewhere in the middle of the other titles, such as if it was placed inbetween the production title and the castings, it would ruin the flow of our opening. Therefore, we have deicded not to placethe title in the middle of Damien and Kaylins scenes.

In our opening thriller, the idea of blood being reversed added a cool and unique twist to the move of Memento. Therefore, in our opening we used the intertexuality of rewinding one of the flash back scenes, i.e. the hand washing, so that it looked crazy and psycho; illustrating the characters mental illness. We used this intertexuality, because it portrays Damiens intentions, washing his hands suggests washing away evidence, of perhaps murder?

This particular intertexual element, wasn't thought of when we was planning our thriller opening. However, during the process of editing we decided to add the effect of Damien washing his hands, backwards (reversed) could suggest that he did this before, perhaps he is washing his hands to get rid of his past ex-girlfriend, hence the 'broke up' and flashback intervals scene. Washing his hands could suggest, he is ready to move on... to another victim.