Inspirations
Inspiration is when you take aspects and ideas from another source to put into your own and make it your own.We need inspiration as otherwise ideas would be very hard to find as we use other ideas as a template for ours, if we could not then original ideas would be all that there is possible and could make the number of ideas very low. If you have an original idea then it cannot be a bad thing to watch other successful examples that you could take things from.
You can take inspiration from many things such as books,T.V, film,music and from your own life.Past experiences are often the best as they have not been thought up by anyone else and mean something personal as they have actually happened to you.This will make whatever you are putting it into better. If you took inspiration from a secondary source such as another film you are effectively copying their idea which is not very creative but can be good if you take small amounts that could improve your own idea.This would be acceptable like us using the location of a forest even though many other thriller are also set.
We have taken ideas from many thriller films such as Seven, the Saw franchise, Shutter Island, Phone Booth and Insidious.All of these films are successful thriller which have many similar elements of which they have copied from each other. These elements are expected and are synonymous with thriller films, these things we can include as they are expected and generally make it better for people watching the film. If they had not been in these other films then they would not be successful so we now know that they are successful ways and we should use them.
We have taken ideas such as not having dialogue only screams which brings a sense of mystery and enigma to the scene. A second is having the heart beat of the victim while she is being chased.We have taken this inspiration from Shutter Island which portrays the heartbeat in a different manner. Lastly one from Scream which never shows the face of the killer which again brings mystery and enigma to the scenes where he is present this makes the character much more scary.This type of inspiration is okay due to it not being a straight copy but we have selected the elements that make it good.
These have helped our film in many ways but mostly it being better general viewing for the audience of the thriller film. Thriller films are meant to be mysterious and surprising and these things that are included in other films and they have some of the best ways to do that. So it is better to use other successful things that we can take from other films that is why we have used it.We know they work so we can use them without worrying are they successful in making a good thriller film.
You can take inspiration from many things such as books,T.V, film,music and from your own life.Past experiences are often the best as they have not been thought up by anyone else and mean something personal as they have actually happened to you.This will make whatever you are putting it into better. If you took inspiration from a secondary source such as another film you are effectively copying their idea which is not very creative but can be good if you take small amounts that could improve your own idea.This would be acceptable like us using the location of a forest even though many other thriller are also set.
We have taken ideas from many thriller films such as Seven, the Saw franchise, Shutter Island, Phone Booth and Insidious.All of these films are successful thriller which have many similar elements of which they have copied from each other. These elements are expected and are synonymous with thriller films, these things we can include as they are expected and generally make it better for people watching the film. If they had not been in these other films then they would not be successful so we now know that they are successful ways and we should use them.
We have taken ideas such as not having dialogue only screams which brings a sense of mystery and enigma to the scene. A second is having the heart beat of the victim while she is being chased.We have taken this inspiration from Shutter Island which portrays the heartbeat in a different manner. Lastly one from Scream which never shows the face of the killer which again brings mystery and enigma to the scenes where he is present this makes the character much more scary.This type of inspiration is okay due to it not being a straight copy but we have selected the elements that make it good.
These have helped our film in many ways but mostly it being better general viewing for the audience of the thriller film. Thriller films are meant to be mysterious and surprising and these things that are included in other films and they have some of the best ways to do that. So it is better to use other successful things that we can take from other films that is why we have used it.We know they work so we can use them without worrying are they successful in making a good thriller film.
You have provided an in depth introduction explaining why we need inspirations and how we can take them and adapt them within our own creations. You have not analysed specific micro elements within films discussed or mentioned how you will include these ideas into your sequence.
ReplyDeleteTo improve your post you need to:
1) Make sure you write a pragraph for each micro element (sound, mise-en-scene, editing, cinematography, conventions) and one on characters
2) Make sure you describe what specifically you have taken from each film (not just the element)
3) Use PEER to analyse ideas more effectively
4) Make sure you explain HOW/WHY certain micro-elements create reactions etc. and why they are effective
5) Explain HOW you will incpororate ideas taken within your opening sequence whilst making them your own