Production Companies

Production Companies

Digital Kitchen

 

The production company that would best suit our thriller opening is Digital Kitchen. They produced Dexter, the opening sequence that I have analysed. The reason that I think this production company would best suit our thriller opening is because they have produced many thrillers such as Dexter, True Blood and Six Feet Under. Digital Kitchen were founded in 1995, however they merged Methodologie who are based in Seattle. I think that Digital Kitchen would be a good production company to produce my thriller opening because they produce thrillers that have a similar target audience to ‘Eat. Sleep. Breathe.’ This means that my thriller will reach the correct audience.


Thriller Opening That Inspires Me:
Analysis of Dexter Opening:
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Effective for the genre?

In the opening title sequence for Dexter, creative imagery is used to make mundane and normal tasks appear gruesome when they are not. In this first slide there's a knife cutting into an orange. We can associate a knife with murder, and the way it looks like it's stabbed the orange may give the audience this thought. Also, the juice from the orange is spraying like blood might if someone was to be cut/stabbed.
There is also a red background. Red is usually associated with evil and the darkness around the edges helps give an evil atmosphere too.

In this still from the opening sequence, a man is shaving his neck. However, the way his neck is held and the placement of the razor makes the audience feel like it seems like someone cutting someone's neck. It also looks like he is about to cut himself, which he does and blood is then shown. This makes a normal task look gruesome and it tells the audience that it isn't a regular everyday thing - something bad may happen. It's also a close up so the audience has no choice but to focus on the current situation. Because it is so close up, it tells the audience this is where something may go wrong because there is nothing else for them to look at.

Here in this still the man is tying his shoelaces but his fists are clenched and his fingers look constricted. This makes the audience feel uneasy because it's almost like someone or something is being strangled with the way that the laces are tightly wrapped around his hands. Also, the way that they are clenched gives off an angry atmosphere, like something is being done out of anger or hatred yet he's just tying his shoelaces. This is another good example of how they have taken normal mundane tasks and made them look gruesome.

In this still from the opening title sequence, it shows a mosquito on a mans arm. A mosquito is a blood sucking creature and so this doesn't seem the most pleasant of things to have on your arm. When thinking of mosquitos, it may make the audience think of blood and something or someone trying to draw blood. This could then link to murder. In the background there is also a mans face and he's lying down. It almost looks like he's dead when really he's just laying down. This is yet another example of how in this opening sequence, normal things are made to look gruesome or worse than they are.

This still looks cringeworthy because the egg that has been cut into looks like flesh. Not only does it look like flesh, but the sauce on the egg looks like blood. It looks as though someone has been stabbed/cut with a sharp object. This makes the audience expect some sort of murder or assault, it's almost like it foreshadows this. It doesn't look appealing to the eye and this makes the audience feel uncomfortable.

This opening sequence fits the thriller genre because of all the gruesome imagery used throughout. A lot of the clips seem to be linked with murder and this is a common thing seen in thriller films. There are weapons used in some of the clips, knifes to be exact. Weapons, specifically knifes are something that's usually seen within the thriller genre and so these clips and images fit very well with this genre.