Inspirations of our thriller

When planning to make our thriller we watched a few films for inspiration. As we are doing a physiological thriller we had to make our film appear to the audience as being a confusing film to get the audience thinking and asking questions about what is going to happen/ what has happened.
The types of films we watched were to do with paedophiles as this is what we are hoping to aim our film about, although this could be a hard aspect to cover. We all went round Becky’s house to watch; ‘The Lovely Bones’, ‘One Hour Photo’ and ‘Disturbia’ this meant we could get some ideas to help us with our film. When filming we chose to base it around our inspired movie which was ‘The Lovely Bones’ as it had a clear structure and gave us a clue on how we can make our film creepier in filming about a paedophile.
We over looked all aspects of making the film more realistic, for example the use of lighting. The change in lighting from the paedophile and the little girl allowed us to show the difference between good and bad. We had to manage to film certain parts in pitch black which meant this would be a suitable time to fit in with the paedophile but also meant we would have to cope with the camera having poor lighting in which we brought in a flash light. As for the little girl we filmed in natural lighting which was meant to show her as vulnerable and pure, also meaning that she is doing no harm but as it gets darker we realise something is about to happen.

From ‘The Lovely Bones’ we adapted the idea of when the paedophile draws out the victims house and how he is going to capture her, we thought this would be a good idea to make Kieran look more creepier and makes the audience worry for her. We used this idea in our film and it looked affective as it was as if it was going to happen as we drew out the place in which he takes her out accurately.