Inspiration

Mr and Mrs Smith (2005)

A film that inspired me when filming the underpass scene, was Doug Liman's Mr and Mrs Smith (2005). The poker scene in this film is filmed by the camera rotating around the poker table. I think that this is an interesting way to shoot a scene with more than two people and therefore  challenged myself to create something similar. However, when it came to filming, this proved very difficult as we were not blessed with having a steady-cam, and so it would have been impossible to form such a smooth rotation like that in Mr and Mrs Smith.

500 Days of Summer (2009)

Mark Webb's 500 Days of Summer (2009) really is quite a quirky film. I loved its abstract style of editing in particular and planned to use this as inspiration when describing what I wanted to the editor. The combination of animation an real life within the film gave it some humour and I would have liked to experiment with this if I had more time. The notion of 'expectations' versus 'reality' was a great aspect. It not only added humour to the film but also gave a great example of split screen and I credit the editor for this. It plays with the audience because it is highly likely that the audience's expectations will be the same as the male protagonist's, however, this is not the case and gives a new and interesting edge to the piece. Overall, I have been influenced by a number of elements in this film and also wanted to challenge the audience's view of what was reality within my own film. I think that I successfully did this as I wanted them to wonder whether the final scene in the park is reality or just another one of Lola's daydreams.