Our opening sequence is between memories and dream. In fact, I think that the first scene of the film would be Alix waking up in her bed, the morning after the notorious night. It is therefore a discontinuous narrative with a lot of close-ups.
Forms and conventions of our media product use and develop those from mainstream productions.
Our audience said, after having watched the product, that it was very similar to Wong Kar Wai's productions. Wong Kar Wai is a Chinese filmmaker, "internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylised films." Wikipedia
Chungking Express, realised in 1994, has made him win the awards of Best Director and Best Picture at the Hong Kong Film Awards. He is a festival producer and gives access to complex, very stylised productions to a wider audience, in other words not only regular audience of art-house productions.
As we can see in the trailer below, our camera work and atmosphere is similar to the Wong Kar Wai-style.
Another style we have been using is the extreme close-ups used for instance in Dexter. We have been therefore reproducing the Dexter's opening sequence-style, but at the same time challenging mainstream productions because extreme close-ups are quite unusual.
We have developed Gaspard Noe's productions, an Argentinian-born French filmmaker. His film Enter the void, released in 2009, of which he has been the director, screenwriter, editor and producer, influenced our media production. In fact, I thought one of my main influence was the videoclip of the song All of the lights from the American rapper and record producer Kanye West. However, it happens that Kanye West has been copying Gaspard Noe style! So let's render to Gaspard Noe his original idea and creativity.
Top: Opening sequence of Enter the Void, Gaspard Noe, 2009
Bottom: Videoclip of All of the lights, Kanye West, 2011
Gaspard Noe did not put any video in his opening sequence, but I thought about developing his style to use it in videos. His intro is discontinuous but the film is then a continuous narrative. Our intro being composed of vague memories, we have developing his original idea.
Certain people could find our media product challenging because they might not be familiar with art-house productions. But as regular watcher of french art-house films, I find it quite normal!
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