Convention uses and challenges in "The Antiquarian"

I have made examples of Thriller conventions and progressed my ideas and thought sfor the film (although loosely) in this blog and in this post I will outline which conventions I am going to abide by and which I want to challenge-

Sound-
In my film I wanted to use no natural sound, the music I created myself represents the thoughts of the character, the methodical vibraphone has been distorted and put to an "off beat" to show the characters methodical but hap hazard behaviour, hinting at his psycological issues. The inspiration for the music is taken from the work of Angelo Badalamenti, who composes for surrealist/thriller director David Lynch. His use of repetition and low level sound throughout his compositions creates a strange and unnerving atmosphere (I use a heart beat and a machine like wheeze throughout my piece) under a louder and more complex melody that is the root of the musics message (in my piece that is the vibraphone, dissonant and loud). Overall the music lends to the strange/surrealist atmosphere of my opening, challenging the normal conbentions of Thriller using natural sound or characters dialogue to estabilish atmosphere and place. Here is a piece by Angelo Badalamenti for Lynch's Thriller series "Twin Peaks":

Cinematography-

Using extreme close up to show a characters emotions in a scene is a convention of any filmmaking but with my b/w shots I over exposed my extreme close up shots to give an unrealistic and surrealist view of the characters face, painting over his blank expression with mania exposing his pyscological problems, this is a clear example of thriller joining with surrealist filmmaking when comapred with the shots concerning the "red herring" of my opening. The book is shot in a classic Noir/ Hitchcockian way to expose it as a red herring/object of mystery. It is clearly shown as the catalyst to the thriller in the film as it appears in colour and every shot it appears in is drawn towards the book as its point or its centre drawing focus from the character as many thriller mystery objects do, for example the suitcase in classic medern thriller "Pulp Fiction" (1994, Quentin Taratino).

Mise-en-scene-
As in any film attention to mise-en-scene must be expertly handled, in my opening the room is taken over by books, his small abode covered in them, on his bed, floor, the walls lined with them, to show the characters obsession with the texts. Black and white is used in every shot bar the shot concerning the "mystery book", shown in a dangerous red to contrast the characters over exposed colour. The charcter and the books show a great attention to detail to the mise en scene and it was alot of work to get it to look like the squalored den of a book obsessed child. Similiar (on a larger scale) is the apartment of the serial killer in "Se7en" (1995, David Fincher) as his apartment is covered in the documents of his murders and piles of his decrepit/twisted journals where no sunlight is shown extremely similiar to The Antiquarian's room.

Editing-
I used the staple of Thbriller editing, quick straight cuts to keep the audience interested in the sparse action in my opening, creating slight exitement and tension in a mundane and slow opening, as seen in many Thrilers.