Inspirations/Influences

The storyboard for the opening of our film shows an obviously psychopathic man cutting up images of a girl, the film ‘Seven’, directed by David Fincher, begins with various shots of doing various strange and creepy things, such as cutting up paper. Most of the shots are close ups and the characters hands are filthy, the lighting is very low key.





This creates a creepy effect and makes the viewer wonder why he is doing this and why he has ended up in that state. This same effect is going to be created by showing a montage of one of the main characters in a small dark room, to create low key lighting the windows will be covered with newspapers. He will be wearing black gloves, to match his all black outfit which maintains anonymity. All this put together will establish that there is something wrong with him and that he is going to have an influence on other characters and the viewer. The credits in ‘Seven’ are very effective by showing a mixture of eerie images, then credits which shake and move about the screen. This creates a sense of fear for the viewer which we intend to do in our film by using a font and soundtrack to match the genre of the film.



Another influence for the idea of our film was ‘The Human Centipede’ where characters are drugged by the main antagonist, he does this by putting tablets in their water, then takes them away. Our film is similar because the man shown at the beginning switches the main protagonists’ pills, which force her to pass out, she is then kidnapped by the psychopath and taken back to small dark room that was seen in the opening shots.

The film ‘Disturbia’ involves a teenager under house arrest who is convinced his neighbour is a serial killer, our film can relate to this because one of the characters is a teenage girl who is taken by a by a crazed man, who, later on in the film, is discovered to be a serial kidnapper.