Inspirations-Miss Georgiou

                                           Inspirations

Before we create work, watch a film or even take part in an activity, we need to be inspired inspiration requires interest, but also motivation and we can take inspiration from personal experience and also interest from something we'd seen. If someone had never tried or seen something before and were talked or pressured into something, they would not be inspired and they would need to hear and more importantly see good things from that partially field to be inspired and motivated to take part or do something. For example, with our production, we have taken inspirations from various thriller films and also clips from these films.

Psycho
An Alfred Hitchcock classic was one of our main inspirations for our film for a number of reasons. Mainly for the low key lighting used throughout the film to create suspense and darken the mood, adding tension as the audience do not know what is around the corner. It is essential to use low key lighting in our production, as it is a thriller and is conventional to the genre. The film is also directed very well by hitchcock, who is known very well for building suspense, tension, shock and surprise very well in his films, particularly in this example by using the shower scene to mix all elements into one scene. We use this as an inspiration for our thriller by building suspense throughout, but also shock and surprise when Cameron kills himself and then his mother.

Se7en- From our opening sequence, we took many inspirations from the opening sequence of se7en. It is mainly a dark scene, with low key lighting throughout to dimmen the mood for the audience and also not reveal very much about the plot. The mysterious use of sound throughout also creates suspense and tension for the audience, drawing them into the story, which is vital for us to repeat as we want people to be interested by our sequence and feel emotions towards it.

Human Centipede- Editing is significant in the Human Centipede, elements of slow editing, reaction shots and straight cuts. It is used to slow the action to create suspense for the audience and leave them further waiting to see what will happen next, the reaction shots are used to show facial expressions, allowing the audience to connect with the character and see their emotions. We use this in our sequence for the main character cameron, using reaction shots in his suicide scene or when he kills his mother, which also includes slow editing followed by a straight cut to his frantic girlfriend on the phone. 

Overall, our inspirations have inspired us to include key elements at various points of our filming and also gave us ideas on how we could make our production better and more suspenseful.