Directors that inspired our idea

Directors that inspired our idea

Alfred Hitchcock

We saw some of the films that Alfred Hitchcock had made for instance 'Psycho'. We noticed that he used a lot of low lighting in his films to show the perspective of the person in the film by only lighting the objects that would be available to be seen from the characters point of view. this helps to create tension through the enigma of the unknown growing in the minds of the viewers as its feed also by the eerie music. We took this idea and are going to implement it into our film to also create tension and the fear of the unknown.

We also saw that his titles for his films have a certain mystery around them. His film titles don’t reveal much of the movie. We are going to try and use this style for our thriller opening as well.

James Cameron

James Cameron also inspired us because he is a sci-fi director and our film has a running theme of sci-fi so he fits in with our category. our group also watched several of his films to evaluate his methods of creating a long lingering sansation of suspense. Aliens, for example, used a stark contrast of action to build the inevible feeling of suspenses. Because there were no aliens in the first incident, just traces of them and complete silence and wasteland. It made the audience think and become confused, creating tension and intrigue.

His Terminator films were also an inspiration for our film because it was also in a dark setting and was very futuristic which is what we are aiming for in our film.

George Lucas

George Lucas was also a big inspiration for our idea. This is because of all the Sci-Fi films he made which fits into our type of category; such as the Star Wars trilogies and Indiana Jones and the way he gave a fictional film a reality edge to it. His use of editing was also a good baseline for our own video editing. The special FX were also very good and didn’t seem out of place at any point in the films.

He also used a lot of suspense in his films which is what we want to create with the use of editing, music and lighting. Films such as the Star Wars trilogies also seem very futuristic even though they are set in the past. This is a feeling we want to create in our opening


Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese was a large influence on us and our ideas as well. He is known for having an abnormal style and particularly distinctive way of shooting. This helps keep the audence intrigued and also excentuaite important moments in the plot that may otherwise seem irrelevent or be too subtle to notice. He expertly crafts his shot together with fluid transitions and smooth editing, however he knews when to add a more jagged rough sense to the filming to create an emotional response of fear or danger.

All of these skills we hope to mimic or learn to keep our piece entertaining and engaging. Scorsese is also very skilled at hinting toward and elusive character throughout his films, despite our piece only being a brief opening we could still include some of the ideas created and developed by Scorsese.