Research - Intertextuality

Intertextuality is using another using another person's work to shape your own work form. Intertexuality is used in film making as people use scenes from past films and put it in their own ones, they usually do it as an inspired piece and not a directly copied version.
Examples of this is the film Pyscho, the famous Psycho shower scene has been used in countless films, such as the stepfather, what lies beneath, fatal attraction, etc.

 Fatal attraction bathroom scene

My group using intertextuality can help us influence our own film opening as it can help us build a storyline and help inspire our mise en scene, camera work, sound and editing. I think that using intertextuality for our own film opening can help us because it could be paying an homage to another film, it can help make our film a true thriller opening, it can help us putting in the conventions of a thriller.