In order to establish a professional looking short, we researched into popular films. An example of this is Carrie (Director Kimberly Peirce, 2013):
Carrie follows the story of a telekinetic outcast.
The cinematography within Carrie provided inspiration in regards to our film. Within our plot the main protagonist Lily travels with her boyfriend from the hospital to home. Due to the fact our film is a short film we wanted to reduce the time taken to do this but still convey the travel clearly. 'Carrie' uses quick elliptical editing to portray Sue Snell, an ex bully to Carrie, travelling home.Graphic match is also used to ensure continuity is not broken and allow the elliptical editing to flow. The two scenes and settings cut together can be shown below:
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| The elliptical editing showing Sue's travel home. |
We gained influence of iconography through the film Scream (Director Wes Craven, 1996):
Scream is a horror series featuring a mystery killer. 'Scream' features memorable iconography of a bloody knife used to determine the films main theme of death. This will be used similarly within 'Lily'.
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Ghost face featuring the iconic knife.
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The Dead Zone (1983) is a psychological thriller film based on Stephen King's novel of the same name.
It features the main protagonist Johnny Smith (Christopher Walken) waking from a coma following a car accident to realise that he has developed a new psychic ability: he can have visions of the past, present and future via physical contact with people or inanimate objects. Johnny uses his powers to help others, such as aiding the local sheriff George Bannerman (Tom Skerrit) in solving a series of grisly murders. He later learns that not only can he predict the future, he can also change it. The film's villain is a conniving populist politician named Greg Stillson (Martin Sheen). After shaking his hand, Johnny foresees him becoming the president and starting what is presumably World War 3. Johnny therefore attempts to use his ability to assassinate Stillson; as seen in the clip below. Johnny fails to assassinate Stillson, but is successful in ruining his chances in the election, shown when Johnny has a vision of Stillson committing suicide.
Lily's psychic abilities were inspired by that of Johnny Smith; the difference being that Johnny can see visions of the past, present at future, whereas Lily can only foresee people's deaths. Both Lily and Johnny begin to question their own sanity in their respective films, although Johnny arguably less so. While Johnny uses his powers to save lives (as he does so several times), Lily seems somewhat incapable of controlling her powers, and unlike Johnny, her powers seem to be more of a curse than a gift; resulting in nothing aside from misery and hysteria.
The main concept of the film is that following Lily’s accident, she has developed a psychic ability that allows her to foresee the death of anyone she touches. Given that her vision of Dr. Walker’s demise came true, she assumes that the same will apply to anyone else that she makes physical contact with. Hence, she starts to develop a fear of death, in that she begins to believe that she is bringing certain death upon anyone she touches. She remains practically doubtless that a death seen in her vision is a certainty of events to come; that the future cannot be changed despite her efforts. A film with a similar concept to this is “Final Destination” (2000), in which the film’s protagonist Alex (Devon Sawa) boards a plane with his classmates on a trip to Paris. While on the plane, he has a premonition that the plane will explode in mid-air, killing everyone on board (seen above). When the events from his vision begin to repeat themselves in reality, he panics and a fight breaks out, leading to a handful of passengers being left behind, namely Alex and his classmates. They then witness the plane exploding moments later. Afterwards, the survivors begin to die one by one through a series of bizarre accidents, Alex attempts to find a way to ‘cheat’ Death's plan before it's too late. Six months later, Alex, and two of his friends travel to Paris to celebrate their survival, believing they have finally cheated Death. However, after one of the trio is crushed by a giant neon sign, they realize that Death's plan is still in action. Hence, both films toy with the idea that death cannot be cheated; that it is inevitable, regardless of what is done to prevent it.
The main concept of the film is that following Lily’s accident, she has developed a psychic ability that allows her to foresee the death of anyone she touches. Given that her vision of Dr. Walker’s demise came true, she assumes that the same will apply to anyone else that she makes physical contact with. Hence, she starts to develop a fear of death, in that she begins to believe that she is bringing certain death upon anyone she touches. She remains practically doubtless that a death seen in her vision is a certainty of events to come; that the future cannot be changed despite her efforts. A film with a similar concept to this is “Final Destination” (2000), in which the film’s protagonist Alex (Devon Sawa) boards a plane with his classmates on a trip to Paris. While on the plane, he has a premonition that the plane will explode in mid-air, killing everyone on board (seen above). When the events from his vision begin to repeat themselves in reality, he panics and a fight breaks out, leading to a handful of passengers being left behind, namely Alex and his classmates. They then witness the plane exploding moments later. Afterwards, the survivors begin to die one by one through a series of bizarre accidents, Alex attempts to find a way to ‘cheat’ Death's plan before it's too late. Six months later, Alex, and two of his friends travel to Paris to celebrate their survival, believing they have finally cheated Death. However, after one of the trio is crushed by a giant neon sign, they realize that Death's plan is still in action. Hence, both films toy with the idea that death cannot be cheated; that it is inevitable, regardless of what is done to prevent it.
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