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The film which I have helped develop can be equally compared and contrasted to other film openings of the same genre. The first example of a comparison is the placement of titles and similar lighting between my own film opening and The Man in the High Castle opening. The title placement is similar as each have not been placed onto a key part of the shot but are still prevalent within the shot. The lighting is also similar as you can sort of see that we have tried to focus the lighting on key parts within the shot with some degree of success, this is also done in the MitHC opening.

Both openings do have some major differences however, TMitHC's opening uses black and white and relies on computer generated imagery of symbolic objects, our opening uses actual shots which we filmed and is also coloured.

The shots I have chosen from my film opening demonstrate the use of titles during key frames to advertise famous actors we would use. The shots we have taken also tell the audience that it is set in a rural home and the actor is an ordernary looking old bloke with a dark past. By using a male as the main actor within the film we are following the media tradition that men are often the main a character within the film. Our film does however conform to media norm as the main character is in limbo between antagonist and protagonist because he may have been a Nazi but he considers himself innocent now. Regular films have a protagonist which is in conflict with the antagonist, instead of one actor who can be considered both.