Research-Momento

At the beginning before we had done any of the filming, me and Alex Lloyd decided to watch Memento. By doing this we hoped we would gain some inspiration, as at this point we didn't know what we wanted to do for our thriller. The whole film does not happen in a chronological order and therefore the film has many ellipsis' in time, this creates confusion for the audience which might be to mirror the main characters confusion, as it is made evident from the beginning that he has lost his memory.
The audience is given a very restricted narrative and are not meant to know too much, giving the film a great sense of enigma. The audience gets questions raised in there head throughout the whole of the film, at one point I was even beginning to doubt whether the main character was meant to be the protagonist and not the antagonist.
This happens with quite a few other characters in the film, whether the main character can trust them or not, the effect of this is that the whole time you are on edge, because you are not sure at all what is about to happen or if a person is a protagonist or an antagonist.
The main plot of the film is that Leonard (the main character) has a damaged memory due to an injury he sustained during the brutal attack and murder of his wife. He now can only remember things for a short period of time and therefore tattoos things on himself or takes Polaroid pictures of people to say whether he can trust them or not. The main theme of this film is revenge as the whole time he is looking for the person who killed his wife so he can kill him.
At the end of this film we gained quite a lot of ideas and had a basic idea of what we wanted to do, deciding on one of the main themes of our thriller to be revenge and to also include ellipsis' in time jumping from on time to the next in a fast sequence.