FILMS INFLUENCING PLANNINGBy Chloe Yearsley

SILENT HILL

Silent hill is one of my favourite horrors as the film makes the narrative so realistic. I’m very into horror films so I might include some of the costumes or characters to include into my planning as they have a wide range of strange unrecognised characters.

This film has its own technique to the filming such as the theme. The theme within the film is grey, dark, dim and negative which gives you an insight that its not a very happy place to be.

I might include some of their techniques into my planning as this will develop y ideas to investigate further into my planning.

TAKEN

Taken is a very action/thriller film that includes a lot of mystery's for the audience to work out for themselves as well as in the film. Some of the scenes in Taken have conflict.

In my planning, I might include a similar narrative that represents the film taken as it has a mysterious point of view that brings across the audience.

As this is an action film, there would be a lot of conflict involved but I will consider this when it comes to planning a storyboard.

SAW

Saw is a very horrific film to watch as it contains in high contents in blood and gore which some viewers may find offensive. When I watch Saw, I notice that they use a variety of techniques to make it seem surreal.

I noticed that the mise en scene is shown when they have dark settings a lot with locations and costumes. You would always see the characters in blood with cuts.

I could consider doing something like this in my opening sequence e.g. having the first shot set in a dark setting which is similar and representing Saw.

THE CONJURING

The Conjuring is also a horrific paranormal film that is to represent real life events that was based on this story. From this, having it as ‘based on true events’ would scare people so this would be good to include in my opening sequence as this would have the viewers on the edge of their seats.

This is a paranormal film so I would not be able to do that in my opening sequence as this would be very hard to do with all the stunts that I would have to include but I will use some of their narrative that makes people believe how real this story is.