Change of Plans

     Although we initially thought we would go the horror route for our film opening, after further research, we decided making a drama film opening would be more viable given our resources. We decided to research various films belonging to the drama genre such as "Taxi Driver", "Melancholia", "No Country for Old Men", and more recently, "Licorice Pizza". 

    The most interesting aspect of the genre is the diversity it encapsulates. Drama is not as concise in its limitations such as other genres. They may span from crime to comedy to romance. This is why we chose to go the drama route rather than stick to horror conventions. With the drama genre, we would have more ambiguity to work with. In the film "Taxi Driver", the drama genre fuses with crime and creates a disturbed vietnam war veteran who struggles to reincoporate himself into society and goes on a self-righteous journey to "fix" New York City. The dark tone and unnerving score of the film contribute to establishing the plot and the main character (Travis Bickle) and his journey and transformation throughout.

God's Lonely Man (Travis Bickle from "Taxi Driver")

    Inspired by "Taxi Driver", we want to incorporate musical elements into the film opening to convey the themes and establish tone within the two minutes we are allotted. We are currently continuing to reach out to different artists to get permission to utilize their music in our film opening. 

                

Here is one of the songs we hope to be able to include in our piece.