We as a group had many influences for our thriller. Weirdly enough our main influence came from the trailer of an animated video game called 'Dead Island'. The bit of the trailer that influenced us was the beginning. The first shot is of a eye, this then pulls back to reveal a dead body lying on the floor, we used this as we are thinking about having our first shot as a close up of a knife in a body, from this we will then pull back to reveal a big man on the floor with a smaller man above him. Also in the trailer for 'Dead Island' there are alot of flashbacks, this also influenced us as we have decided that after the first scene in our thriller there will be flashbacks.
This is the poster for the game 'Dead Island'.
This is the pull away from the little girls eye which influenced our first shot.
This is one of the flashbacks that influenced the idea of us using them.
We decided to use these elements in our thriller because we felt that they added tention, drama and suspese to the trailer, as well as intrigue. However we had to be careful to distinguish our opening as the beginning of a film and not the trailer.
Another influence in our thriller was the movie '21', this is a thriller which is based around poker, all our group liked this movie so we decided to base the start of the movie around a poker game in which one person cheated in. We took no other ideas other than using poker from the movie '21'.
This is the poster from the movie '21'.
By Scott Cawkwell
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