Influences

Films

Shrooms - We gained inspiration from their opening scene of a girl running through a wooded area. We felt this was effective because it created a helpless atmosphere and threw the audience straight into the action of it all. This influenced us to use a frantic chase scene.

The Blairwitch Project - The claustrophobic setting worked well in this film making the characters feel trapped. This influenced us to use a forest setting.

Also the use of the moving camera shots to give the perceived perspective of killer and victim grew from the inspirations of this film, however after including this in the final product we feel it did not work as well as expected and that it only worked in Blairwitch Project because it was shown that the film was done by one of the characters upon a camera, so the perspective worked there. Whereas our film was to try and achieve perspective whilst running without making it seem like a camera - looking through the eyes of the killer and victim in effect.

Memento - This inspired us to incorporate the idea of doing the film in reverse, i.e. the ending would be the opening.

If we carried our film on then it would display the events that lead upto the opening, giving a cyclical feeling.

Past examples of AS media films also gave us some ideas that we experimented with.

Directors:

1. Alfred Hitchcock - His success in creating tension in his films influenced us to try and replicate this. In his film "Psycho" Hitchcock used high pitched music to insinuate a murder, this influenced us to try and create a soundtrack that reflected the uneasy nature of "Psycho".

2. Paddy Breathnach (Shrooms) - Breathnach proved also to be an inspiration through his works into the horror genre, he has also made other horrors such as 'Freakdog/Red Mist' that went also for the gorey approach.