Directors Commentary Script

Directors Commentary


Hello I'm Sophie and I'm the director for the opening title sequence called Vanish. 

At the beginning you can see our distribution company which is vertigo films. We chose this because it distributes low budget films which are mainly in the genre of thriller like ours. For our production company we designed it ourselves. We named ours 'Thrillseekers production' as we feel this is appropriate for a thriller genre as you watch them to gain thrills throughout. We used a lion as the main logo point as we felt it reflected the idea of thrills and being scared as a lion is the main animal for this.

We chose our target audience to be between the age of 16-25 and to also be a mixed gender. We chose to use this everyday setting as we felt all our audience would relate better to it. To go along with this we chose to use everyday items that most people from our target audience would already have at home and regularly use. This is to show that the character we chose is relate-able as he lives in a normal home. 

Throughout this opening sequence we have used eerie music to create the atmosphere needed for the audience to fully feel like they are watching a thriller. In our opening title sequence we decided that our main character would not be shown to wear a costume as such but to only have a white towel. This is to show purity and how innocent he is when he is just having a regular bath that everyone else in our target audience has or has heard of. 

After he has had the hallucination, taken the pills and then calmed down we see him sit down to try and relax on the sofa. The camera then zooms into him to show the audience that he is alone. We did this so that the audience know there is no one else with him which foreshadows events that happen later on in the piece. At the end after we have seen the 'thing' in the bath we see a lot of black flickering light and then it suddenly ends with a big title on your screen. We used this to try and scare the target audience which reflects our genre.