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Research, details and examples of influences on our film

Shot Influences of our Film.

Shot Influences of our film.

'The 400 Blows'

At the end of our film, we included a scene inspired from the ending scene of "The 400 Blows", where a freeze-frame is used and the protagonist looks directly into the camera. We decided this scene was emotive and was a compelling way to conclude a film. At the end of 'Outcast', we also used a close up freeze frame of Zachary's face, after he has been defeated.

'Death Note'

The scene where Zachary is researching about witchcraft before the ritual and sitting at his desk also took inspiration from the scene in 'Death Note', where 'Light' is also sitting at his desk, investigating on how to use the death note. We used similar close up and mid shots to 'Death Note' in this scene, as well as using a similar charisccurio lighting, which gives connotes mystery and isolation, as the protagonist in both films discovers the power of the book alone. The mid shot used in 'Death Note' simply shows the protagonist and the book, which is emotive, since they are two main focuses of the film.

'The Ninth Gate'

Close ups where the book is the focus of the shot are used in 'Ninth Gate' which we used in our own film in order to reinforce to the audience that the book is the centre of our film's storyline, and has an enormous influence on both the plot and the main character's motive

'Good Fellas'

We were inspired by the freeze-frame voiceover in 'Good Fellas', in order to add a narrative in the library scene, where Zachary's monologue explains what book he's looking for and what power it beholds.

'Shaun of the Dead'

A montage scene in 'Shaun of the Dead' inspired our montage scene in the library scene of our film, when Zachary is looking for a book. This is an example of elliptical editing, which was used in order to convey a passage of time quickly.

  



Influences on our film

Research and influences of our film.

We were inspired by the opening title sequence of 'Se7en''s use of cinematography for effect. 'Se7en''s emphasis seems to gravitate towards symbols in a book in the title sequence, which (because our film's main focus also situates around the power of witchcraft written in a book to cause disturbance in the equilibrium) we wanted to recreate. The font for the opening credits also flashes and flips across the screen, giving a distorted effect and already suggesting the type of convention of film.  The text rapidly changes and shakes across the screen, and it was something we wanted to recreate in our title sequence. We use similar ideas therefore in our title sequences of rapidly changes images and shaking/flipping opening credits, in order to achieve the same effect. 

In 'Fight Club', a scene is used where the camera blurs and shakes around the protagonist in order to create the effect of weirdness and isolation of the character . Because our protagonist is also seen in this way, wanted to use a blur effect in a similar way around the character in the opening scene, making him distant and dream-like.

Our character's personality and isolated behaviour was also based on protagonists from films such as 'Carrie' and 'We Need to Talk about Kevin' as previously mentioned.

Influences On Our Film

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