Saffrons media homework.

Comparing the opening sequence of 'Resivour dogs' and 'Inception'.

Looking at the openeing scene of 2010's Inception, we can see that it uses many of the codes and conventions of a thriller move for example, clearly showing that the narrative is centered around a crime (usually murder), this is shown through the use of the micro elements, mainly mis-en-scene, and camerawork. Props are used such as guns, weapons etc this connotes danger, violence, death etc. Also things such as jump cuts, (to show fast paced movements), high anlges/low angles showing particular characters (protagonist and antagonists). There is also a big use of special effects, (pyrothetics)to create explosions making tension, and showing danger, also used to start or finish a chase scene. This all addds to just one of the conventions of a thriller. Other conventions such asthe protagonist often ends in peril, the theme of identity , the protagonist having a weakness which is later explioted by the antagonist. All these other conventions are used to show the genre through the opening scene During the first 3 minutes of Inception unusually the first shot is of the sea which the audience cannot immediately tell what the genre is because the sea isnt seen as something likely to be in a thriller movie as it it represented as being calm peaceful, but then all this is contrasted within the next 20 seconds because there is a close up of what seems to be the victim (although also the main character) who has clearly been washed up, so this shows something bad happeneing. The use of bullet tme to slow down a shot of children playing starts to create tension, and non diegetic background music to emphasise that tension adding to the feel of the genre.


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