Inspirations for Opening Scene - Miss Miller

Before we create something, we need inspiration because it would help to create something of good quality taking on similar ideas from where we get the inspiration from.  We can take inspiration from anything depending on what we want to create, including if we want to create an art piece, we would get inspiration from other artists work or graphic design and taking ideas from other pieces of graphic design and incorporating similar qualities into the design.  We are able to get inspiration everyone if you put your mind to it.  In this matter, we have to create our own opening thriller sequence, so we have taken inspiration from a range of different films.


Elaborate - What sequences have you looked at? (Various research posts) and what inspirations have you taken from them? How were they inspiring? How will you try to incorporate these ideas into your opening sequence, whilst making them your own

SAW - CINEMATOGRAPHY

We have taken inspiration from Saw 1 with the element of a close up shot.  The close up shot shows details of the character or object which the audience would not be able to see from another certain element of cinematography.  This was inspiring as we could show the victim of our sequence fear in the face when she realises the killer.

Another cinematography element would be the establishing shot, we have taken inspiration from this, as it would help set the scene or location.  It helps the audience get an idea of where the action will take place.  This shot was inspiring because it would help our sequence and we could use this when the car would be passing the Repton tower.

Another element would be the hand held camera cinematography shot, this was inspiring as it gave us, as the audience a sense of fear and chaos, as the shot does not appear to be smooth like panning is.  We have taken inspiration in our own thriller, for the victim would be running in the forest.

SCREAM 3 - EDITING

We have taken inspiration from scream 3 with the element of a straight cut, as this helps indicate a change in location.  This editing element was inspiring because it would help us in our own thriller sequence.  We plan to use this in our thriller opening sequence as it will show a change in location, as our thriller involves three different settings.

Another editing element we plan to use would be timing of shots as the slow editing creates emotional impact and builds suspense, the the editing would get noticeably faster therefore creating emotional impact.  We would incorporate this into our own thriller from the point of the antagonist walking past and then it would get faster from the point onwards from when the victim starts running.

Another editing element would be jump cut, this is inspiring because it would help the audience focus on an object.  We would incorporate this idea by showing the victims face when she realises the killer is holding a knife and then a jump cut will focus on the knife, to emphasise and alert the audience that there is a weapon involved.

HALLOWEEN H20: 20 YEARS LATER - SOUND

We plan to use non diegetic sound, the music was inspiring as it was suspenseful. 

Evaluate - How was your research useful in terms of getting ideas for your narrative? How will have various inspirations made your sequence better?

In terms of getting ideas for our narrative, my research was very helpful as getting ideas from different films was a better idea than getting it from just one specific film.