A directors that has mainly influenced us is Christopher Nolan; a British-American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Most known for working on The Dark Knight Trilogy, the science fiction/heist film inception and (the ones that inspired us the most) psychological thrillers Memento and The Prestige. In Memento constant use of photos inspired us to incorporate photo's into our opening sequence, in our opening we have used photos took from a social networking site to bring it more up to date and to link to our target audience (teenagers).
Another influence to us was Alfred Hitchcock; probably one of the most famous thriller directors. His style of work is very unique and recognisable. He was known to be the master of suspense, we wanted to create the same high levels of suspension within our opening sequence with the tension building soundtrack, quick and snappy shots, and no real reveal of the villain involved.
We tried to create a similar feel to our villain as he did in his hit film, Psycho. In Psycho the protagonist didn't speak much which created high suspension and tension, in our opening sequence the villain doesn't speak at all; giving it the same apprehensive feel.
A final highly influential director we found was David Fincher; an American film and music video director who is known for his dark thrillers, such as Seven, The Game, Fight Club, and Panic Room. the opening sequence for his thriller Seven inspired us immensely. We took many ideas from the opening of seven but tried to put our own twist on it; we used a similar stalker based opening involving collection things to do with the victim but instead of presenting them in books and on printed photo's we showed it all through a computer to appeal to our target audience.
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