In many films certain motifs are used throughout; this may lead someone being able to identify a film just because of the motif that is repeated throughout. Some examples of this are in Human Centipede 2 with the representation of the centipede itself; and in Sinister being the child killers. The use of motifs is very effective as it can give a film a theme to go from.
MOTIF'S IN OUR OPENING SEQUENCE
In our film Mute we have based the whole of our opening sequence around the colours blue and white. In horror films, conventionally, the usage of the colours red and black are most common as they denote death, blood, war etc- so for our film opening sequence we wanted to create something more uncommon and unconventional. To do this we have used to motif of the repetition of the usage of the colours blue and white. With these colours we were able to create an uneasy overly-clean atmosphere to fit our story line - it contrasts the conventions of horror but it still works.
Also, I like that we have used blue as a motif as towards the beginning of our opening sequence because we have used it to edit the colours of the actual footage, it makes it appear very vivid and cold and I think it works very successfully.
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