If you haven’t heard of them yet, I’m sure you will soon because the films Momento and Insomnia are two of Christopher Nolan who will soon be releasing a new film called 'Inception', however back to the theme of this post, I will be trying to find similar conventions between the films Momento and Insomnia.
Well let’s get into the boring parts and search for similar conventions from the thriller genre.
One similar convention that you get straight away is the sound; it is non-digetic in both trailers which means that the characters can’t hear it due it being added in during the stages of editing, the opening score in Insomnia contains a lot of strings e.g. violins, double bass and the baseline is repeated throughout the piece, this is similar to memento in the ways that the music is very legato (soft notes connecting to one another) and just like in insomnia it is mainly strings but with a few digetic sounds that were heard during the filming.
The titles of the films however are not very similar due to the Sequence for Momento the title is not as involved with the music and does not seem very right, creating a unsettling atmosphere for the viewers which is fairly alike the title in the sequence for Insomnia however the title flows with the music in beat and starts very cramped together then the letters spread apart and seem to move closer to the viewers the image also seems to help push viewers in and out of conciseness, this illusion suits the Thriller genre very well!
Overall both of these opening sequences portray stereotypical conventions of the thriller genre such as digetic/non digetic sound, Editing and many more to consider.
Well enough of me ranting on about pros and cons of the trailers see what you think about it I posted the links after the introduction!
