inspirations-miss miller

Inspiration

Inspiration plays a vitol role before creating something as your imagination and being inspiered by someting is key for you to create a good idea, also it ensures you to have good ideas in the making of your narrative so you know you will end up with a good final piece. As you may have taken many ideas from films which already have a good rating from people, telling you that if you do something similar you should hopefully receive the same response. People take inspiration from all different kind of things, something that may had occurd or a film they may have watched. I have taken my inspiration from looking at a range off different films, taking insperation from sound, cinematography and other micro-elements.

Firstly i took my sound inspiration from looking at various different films, but especially from looking at wrong turn 4. In this a classic upbeat song is played while they are electrocuting someone, this is a contrapuntal sound and juxtaposition is used to allow the audience to understand that they are murderers and have mental issues. Also it creates a sick and twisted plot, creating it to be conventional to a thriller. From this it make me think of what sort of sound i would like in my own narrative, i liked the idea of the contrapuntal sound as this interests the audience and entrigs them as it is not what they expecting, causing them to look into the film further and make them unexpected to what will happen next. Causing them to be shocked and surprised and to also build suspense as they are unsure of what will happen next, making the film conventional to a thriller. As well as contrapuntal sound, non- diegetic and diegetic sounds are used throughout all films. This inspired me as i began to see how editing in sounds could cause the audience to see a whole different perspective of a film, due to sounds being more empathised it create a different emotional impact on the audience as they began to notice things that they wouldn't before due to it being editing in it created things to be worse or better then what they actually were.

Secondly I began to look at the camera shots taken in Saw. Various of different angles and shots were used for the correct shot to be taken, showing the audience what they need to see for them to understand the narrative and begin to interpret whats going to happen next. What i especially liked in saw is when they used timing of shots, slowing down a certain point in a scene to empathises what is happening so the audience are aware of what is most important. I found that this was a good idea as it cased the audience to be aware of what to watch out for during the film and were able to understand the vulnerable position the character was in. Which is why i want to use it in my own narrative as i found that it created a better relationship with the audience and the character as the audience were able to take more notice of what was happening to the character.

From looking at mama, a number of different thriller conventions were used which i took inspiration from for my own thriller. A montage shot was used, switching the main shot from the women to the girl back to the women. This created excitement and suspense where the two different shots were quickly juxtaposed together. From seeing this i will more then likely use it in my own thriller as it helped add excitement for the audience because of the chaos that was being created. 

From researching all these different films it has helped me alot to find my own ideas for my own narrative as it has inspired me to try different things. For example the contrapuntal sound in wrong turn 4 was unusual, and i would not of done it originally, but as i saw how well it worked there it inspired me to do it for myself, as well as included all different conventions to make the narrative conventional to a thriller.