"What were you thinking?" - Mood board.

The genre I've chosen to do is Psychological Thriller. I've always enjoyed these movies and no matter what they immediately hook me in. I love the plot twists, the stories and the mental journey they take you on while watching to bring you to surprising results. 

A typical psycological thriller movie is combined of several eliments, a hybrid genre, if you will. They usually consist of mystery, drama, horror and/or action. Some of the themes for this genre are as follows:

• Reality: A character seen questioning what is real and what is not.
• Perception: The way in which a character percieves the world around them and often wrongly so.
• Mind: Characters of this genre are often seen 'battling' with their own minds, to reach a new level of understanding.
• Existence/Purpose: The characters are found usually trying to find their purpose in life, the reason for being there, doing what they do ect. We see this through the narrative's conflict and the character's lives.
• Identity: The characters in psycological thrillers are often doubting who they 'really' are and then go upon a psycological journey to find out.
• And finally, Death: Sometimes character's in this genre have a fear or a fascination for death, resulting in bad conciquences.

I want my opening sequence/titles to be mysterious and pose lots of questions. Like in Jared Hess's Napoleon Dynamite, I want to have a title that doesn't show the persons face only objects and order minor body parts (hands, feet. Because I've decided to do a Psychological Thriller it needs to be appealing and hook into the audience quickly. It can't be boring or give away any answers.

David Fincher's Se7en title sequence is almost spot on to what I've envisioned for my own. It holds all the elements that I like but more darker. Below is the title:

Below is my moodboard. I collected several images relating to my desired genre as well as movies that inspired me. They're all stereotypical codes and conventions of a pyscological thriller movie which I also feel reflect my idea for the opening sequence/title.

My initial ideas before pairing up with Farhath for location and story line we're some what different yet had aspects of similarity to them. In the beginning I wanted to shoot a scene with a group of young adults/teenagers exploring the rural woodland area in the hope to find the mysterious creature known as The Herne; a human form with a deer head that haunts the forests of Wales. This story was told to me by some friends who I know up in Wales and it captured my attention. Initially I wanted to have something along the lines of this but getting to the locations and the expenses would be our of reach.