The creator Eric Anderson got his ideas from re-contextualising mundane things and giving them a sinister importance. He started his ideas from noticing the name 'Dexter' looks the same if it is turned around, this gave him an idea that a person could have two sides to them. He then looked at crime scene photography and realised that the photographs contextualise mundane things and got the idea that a entire situation can unfold from one photo giving it an importance, once the history is discovered behind it eg. the Martin Luther King photo - where he was shot.
To fit this sequence Eric needed a character which introduced two sides to him, showing a man doing normal things in the morning but doing them in a brutal, harsh way to create a side of violence. The final sequence that Eric chose communicated the idea of 2 sides of this character in this sequence as the use of noir lighting and shadow depth of field helped to add a certain atmosphere to the piece. By Eric showing the detail by using shadow depth of field it made the viewers see 'normal' things as violent by the use of diegetic sound and jump cuts.
There are 2 trailers for this sequence. Eric decided to chose the one over the Xploding Plastix track. He did this because the first trailer had sinister music along with fast paced edits to connote tension, but the other creators thought that this clip gave too much away to the viewers rather than leaving a mystery - Bart's enigma code. The final sequence that he decided to select had a more playful soundtrack throughout it -the 'Rolfe Kent' track. By the use of this track it connoted tension but in a more mysterious way and set the clip to have a more humorous light whilst introducing subtly that this character could have a violent side to him.
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