Genre

Even though the concept of our film is quite light-hearted and witty, the technical genres we will be showing are mystery and suspense. The reason for engaging the audience is the question of 'what is he going to eat next'. We will show this in our film by changing the shot durations of him eating paper and books and getting more agitated, and changing the shots of him doing different things and of other people watching him. This also shows that's going on in his mind as he is slowly becoming obsessed with eating paper. At the beginning of the film the shots will be slow, and as his obsession grows in the middle of the film the shot transitions will be quick and fast paced. Towards the end they will get slower again, as it is revealed what he finally eats.

In this opening sequence of brick there are close up shots of the girls body parts. We will be replicating this by doing close ups of various books, pages and his face, showing his facial expressions as he gets taken over by his obsession. This will create suspense as not only are the audience waiting to see the outcome of his obsession, they will start to wonder why these close ups are important to the outcome. This also creates a mystery element as the boy seems quite mysterious as his obsession with eating paper is weird and not normal.