Influences

Although we put together a unique storyline it didn’t just come out of nowhere, each individual piece of story was influenced from other sources each other member of the group had seen or heard , most of these were short films we had been researching whilst others were from other aspects of media. The shorts films I felt influenced me to contribute what I did to Confined where from titles such as ‘Cubs’, I felt the short film portrayed every emotion from the protagonist really well, not just through script but through expressions and movement especially with the last shot when the forth wall is broken and the protagonist stares straight at the camera, I used this same shot in confined in a different way but it also gave the same effect. A connection between characters and audience.





Another title ‘enough’ also shares the same cuts between shots as we used back and forth from fears and reality and it also influenced me when it came to the mugging scene, although edited slightly different the structure around that particular scene in our short film was influenced from the fighting scenes in ‘enough’. Enough was also the short film that showed just how important it is to make every shot count. Apart from short films I also got a lot of influence from other pieces of media, firstly the connection between the fear scenes and reality started through my eyes from the editing used to show peoples secrets in the feature length film unbreakable, when Bruce Willis was to touch a stranger in the film it would cut to a scene of that strangers darkest secrets using very different colour and atmosphere to the reality showing a clear contrast between the two.