Influences made to my filmINFLUENTIAL FIGURES

Guy Richie is a huge inspiration to me and the entire film industry, his films focus on how there shot and interesting plots rather that huge CGI

sequences. I have chose him because of his unique take on filming scenes. For example in the film “snatch” he had a lot of his shots edited so that

they would be normal, and then reverse and repeat again, he also played a lot with slow motion and speed, which looked very cool and targeted the

audience that are more media literate. His films also contain lots of graphic matches and other clever edits such as wipes. There's such a variety of edits with what he does that every short is new, clever and exciting, which engages a fox thinker audience. His films never really follow what you expect, again, in snatch, the film revolves around a

betting scam from a rigged boxing match, a group of gypsies killing a notorious gang and a jewellery heist. Its so rammed of stories that have amazing links to one another that it keeps you entertained for the entire

film. For me Guy Richie has influenced my piece in terms of story line and use of shots I use. Looking at his work I want my film to have lots of clever colour grading to show contrast between scenes and have connotations,

for example, I really need to show the difference between heaven and hell, so I'm thinking heavy orange and gold for heaven, with a strong blue for earth. The connotations of these colours are that gold often represents

vitality and health where as blue is more cold and sad. Guy Richies film is conventional to a gangster film, but his use of loads of different plots

intertwined means its more unpredictable which is why I chose him as an influential figure, I want my film to be unpredictable. Furthermore, I have

chosen his style of filming, as although it appeals more to fox thinkers, when slowed down to longer takes, more connotations can be attached to

the shots and they emphasize the story more.

GUY RICHIE

One of things I have to work out is how roll my credits in the opening scene, what I'm currently thinking is taking what guy Richie has done is snatch. And doing a cut-out

style effect like this:

MORE GUY RICHIE INFLUENCE.

Here's my attempt:

This effect was achieved in adobe after effects. I masked out my subject, applied threshold, grain and torch, which gave it a cut-out look.

My version has purposefully lost more detail as I prefer the non realistic look. HOWEVER:This is not found in a drama, so therefore will not be used in my film.

KEANU REEVES

Keanu reeves to me is an influential figure of acting to me, and has really been the basis for my character. In his films he has always been very loyal to a lossed one or very family centred. For example “john wick”, people come and kill his dog, the only remaining gift from his dead wife. And he goes on a murderous rampage seeking revenge. He played both loving, like at the start of my film concept, to violent killer in the end. This character development of the role is

Something that Keanu is very good at. And its exactly what I would like my character to be like In my films. Also Keanu reeves has been seen in conglomerate films and independents, so there is a chance that he could come and be in our film without costing millions.

Steven Spielberg is first and foremost a director, but he often takes the role of the producer too. The role of the producer is very important, he covers everything from

script to lighting, and I think of all time Steven Spielberg is the best, his use of framing and lighting always add to his films making them ageless, Jurassic park 1 is as good now as it was then, Spielberg's decision to use models instead of CGI Was an

amazing amazing idea. Spielberg has a way of using Very basic concepts to create an atmosphere. Just using low-key lighting, strategically placed in frame to give pop to his films, so nothing really is “flat” by that I mean there are constant focal points

created by the use of lighting. As you can see in the image below there is a lot of contrast, especially the fact that the room is blue, where as there is lots of golden

light coming from outside, this draws our attention to outside and creates an atmosphere of wonder outside where as inside is old, mundane and boring.

STEVEN SPIELBERG

See how simple Lighting is used Exceptionally well.

INFLUENCE OF SPIELBERG

Use of haze in lighting. The use of a haze machine creates a foggy atmosphere that makes all light turn into beams of

light that looks really cool on camera, it’s a basic cinematographic element that Spielberg often uses which

ties the shot together. My film needs to have a sort of unreal aspect to it, as its dealing with a representation of

heaven, and lens flare, light beams and lots of colour grading (like Spielberg uses) will create the atmosphere

that I am aiming to achieve.

Here you can see how Spielberg used fog and light beams to create a setting of mystery and almost fear, as the gloomy room hyperbolises the mans anger.

To me lions gate is a huge influence, as an independent company they have progressed to making bigger films such as the hunger games, but there earlier films from 2005 and backwards often had a harder meaning / background,. For

example they made the film hard candy, which brought attention to the adults out there praying on teenagers for sex. This here is a hard issue which lions gate managed to adapt and create into an action packed film that appealed

to a lot of people. And this here is what I too, want to attempt. To take an issue (albeit mine more philosophical)

and convert it into a film that the mass audience would take.

The film “Anomalisa” is about a human attempting to escape the mundainity of life. What makes this so

interesting is that they are stop motion figures, this here shows that in our eyes, they are literally just

robots, they are inanimate objects incapable of feeling, however this film takes those representations and applies them to our lives. This here is similar to my piece as both challenge our grip on reality, using human emotion as the catalyst. Its post modern as it

uses stop motion to represent a drama, which clashes with the philosophical backbone of the story as it

undermines by its almost childlike interpretation of it, however I think that it is very ironic how the film

explores the human condition without using humans, this gives us a sort of third person view of our own

psyche which is different and therefore adds intellectual pleasures.

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