Inspiration

Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012):
At the beginning of my research I analysed the opening for this film, and have taken on board certain elements as inspiration for my own production. Firstly, I liked the idea of a false sense of security at the start of the film as the audience believes that everything is fine when in actuality it is not. I also enjoyed the simplistic typewriter style font and sound effects used for the opening titles. I feel that this adds to the theme of nostalgia as the font appears old and out of date, therefore it may be something that we use in our own production as we are following a similar theme.
There is also a scene later in the film that deeply influenced my own film ideas. In this sequence Charlie, the film's protagonist, begins to deteriorate mentally. This scene delivers high emotional impact through its use of flashbacks and confusing sequences. A medium long shot shows Charlie walking up the street in an exhausted manner. Flashes of memories appear throughout this shot, revealing new information about the character's past. After each flashback, we are referred back to the same shot, however Charlie has been multiplied. This
continues until there are three versions of Charlie walking up the street. This clearly shows his fragile state of mind as the memories confuse and distort his version of reality. This is very similar to what we hope to represent in our own film and has highly influenced the way in which we will be representing the deterioration of our main protagonist.
Also in these scenes, there is a very limited amount of dialogue. When Charlie does speak, it is on the phone to his sister, however he is not on screen during this time. His voice sounds broken, scared and distant and worries the audience as they can not see his physical state thus leading them into fearing the worst for this character as we do not know what he is doing or where he is. Further shots of an empty room again reinforce this feeling within the audience. This reaction of confusion and fear towards the character is something that we would like to be able to stir within our own audience.

Sources: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9OVBkRPEh0
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Teen Wolf - TV Show
One of the protagonists of this programme, Stiles, experiences a subconscious battle within himself. His demeanor becomes extremely aggressive as he looses who he truly is. We took inspiration from this as his character transforms from a relatable young teenager to someone frightening and unrecognisable, which is extremely similar to our own story. We shall direct the actor playing our main protagonist in a similar way as we would like to achieve a similar sense of pity and fear as is created in this show.
We have also taken inspiration from the visual effects used in this show. Firstly, the makeup used in
these scenes makes the character appear vacant and tired. It enhances the fear factor created within the audience and therefore allows the scenes to land much greater impact. The scenes with the character also have very dim and dreary lighting again adding to the overall tone of the scene. This is something that we also be doing in our own production.

Sources:  > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QJ-534nAy4
                > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg3qMmPJKJA

Up (2009)
This film opens with a montage of memories leading up to the present. They begin with joyous events from the beginning of Ellie and Carl's relationship, however as time goes on the scenes depicted are much sadder; first as they find out that they will never have children and later leading up to Ellie's illness and eventual death, leaving Carl all alone. The music played over the top of these
images shifts in tone along with the scenes, adding to the deeply saddening ending of the montage, and thus delivering a much stronger impact on the audience. In the final scene we see Carl sat alone for the first time, holding a single ballon.
Loneliness is a key theme in this film as well as in my own. For our production we would also like to combine memories to create a similar sort of timeline of events. I also have found from this film that by having the protagonist sat alone, sympathy is created for that character is created early on. We will therefore be using this in our own film however we will distort the idea in order to fit in with the genre of thriller, by having our character look scary on top of being desperate and alone. We will also be including a similar shift in the music from cheerful and merry to sad and tense.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2bk_9T482g

500 Days of Summer (2009)
This film follows the protagonist, Tom, in his pursuit of love. We watch his relationship with Summer through a distorted non-linear timeline, hopping between past and present. In this film some scenes are repeated. For example, after spending their first night together Tom is elated and dances through the streets with joy. However later in the film, when their relationship begins to fall, we see Tom take the same path to work, but the tone has changed completely. Instead of dancing he drags his feet, and instead of water fountain displays lighting up in his presence, they fall down.  This shift in tone is something we would like to be able to achieve in our own film. Through repeating the sequence the change in mood is much more apparent and therefore has a greater impact on the audience. Therefore we will consider repeating locations for our flashbacks in order to create a similar effect to this.

Sources: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tJoIaXZ0rw
               >  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctF7IkKNQ4U