Inspiration

Inspirations include all kinds of thriller’s, but primary ones are:

• ·         Dark Knight
• ·         Shutter Island
• ·         No Country For Old Men
• ·         Cape Fear
• ·         Big Lebowski
• ·         Final Destination

Our primary inspiration is probably Final Destination. Final Destination is considered a Horror but personally between me (Will) and Dan, we consider it a Thriller. This because there was no aspect of being scared within the film but it was still fantastic and thrilling. We incorporated an idea from Final Destination, something that is quite an obvious motif in our film, the fan. The fan is used in final destination as motif of blades and sawing and death. We included this to be a motif also, including the idea of hacking and sawing and blades. Also the sound of a fan can be considered intimidating.

Shutter Island is probably our second primary inspiration as it incorporates the idea of messing with people’s heads, which is what we are aiming to do with our thriller. Shutter Island ends with that final question. Was it all real? If we were to make a film out of our idea, we would probably end with that same question.

Dark Knight is our last inspiration that we will include in our film. This film is great example of a film that builds up suspense and creates tension. We will try and incorporate an idea from this film to give that tension and suspense feel.