Influences made to my filmINFLUENTIAL FIGURES

Guy Richie is a huge inspiration to me and the entire film industry, his films focus on how there shot and interesting

plots rather that huge CGI sequences. I have chose him because of his unique take on filming scenes, his films

contain loads of graphic matches and other clever edits. For example in his film snatch, he uses reverse shots, shots

sped up and slowed down and action matches. There's such a variety with what he does that every short is new, clever and exciting, which engages a fox thinker audience. His

films never really follow what you expect, again, in snatch, the film revolves around a betting scam from a rigged

boxing match, a group of gypsies killing a notorious gang and a jewellery heist. For me Guy Richie has influenced my piece in terms of story line and use of shots and what I do. Looking at his work I want my film to have lots of clever

colour grading to show contrast between scenes and have connotations.

GUY RICHIE

One of things I have to work out is how roll my credits in the opening scene, what I'm currently thinking is taking what guy Richie has done is snatch. And doing a cut-out

style effect like this:

MORE GUY RICHIE INFLUENCE.

Here's my attempt:

This effect was achieved in adobe after effects. I masked out my subject, applied threshold, grain and torch, which gave it a cut-out look.

My version has purposefully lost more detail as I prefer the non realistic look.

KEANU REEVES

Keanu reeves to me is an influential figure of acting to me, and has really been the basis for my character. In his films he has always been very loyal to a lossed one or very family centred. For example “john wick”, people come and kill his dog, the only remaining gift from his dead wife. And he goes on a murderous rampage seeking revenge. He played both loving, like at the start of my film concept, to violent killer in the end. This character development of the role is

Something that Keanu is very good at. And its exactly what I would like my character to be like In my films. Also Keanu reeves has been seen in conglomerate films and independents, so there is a chance that he could come and be in our film without costing millions.

The role of the producer is very important, he covers everything from script to lighting, and I think of all time

Steven Spielberg is the best, his use of framing and lighting always add to his films

making them ageless, Jurassic park 1 is as good now as itwas then, Spielberg's decision to use models instead of CGIWas an amazing amazing idea. Spielberg has away of using

Very basic concepts to create an atmosphere. Just using low-

key lighting, strategically placed in frame gives all his films a

“flat” appearance and makes everything a little more interesting.

STEVEN SPIELBERG

See how simpleLighting is used Exceptionally well.

INFLUENCE OF SPIELBERG

Use of haze in lighting. The use of a haze machine creates a foggy atmosphere that makes all light turn into beams of

light that looks really cool on camera, it’s a basic cinematographic element that Spielberg often uses which

ties the shot together. My film needs to have a sort of unreal aspect to it, as its dealing with a representation of

heaven, and lens flare, light beams and lots of colour grading (like Spielberg uses) will create the atmosphere

that I am aiming to achieve.

Here you can see how Spielberg used fog and light beams to create a setting of mystery and almost fear, as the gloomy room hyperbolises the mans anger.

To me lions gate is a huge influence, as an independent company they have progressed to making bigger films such as the hunger games, but there earlier films from 2005 and backwards often had a harder meaning / background,. For

example they made the film hard candy, which brought attention to the adults out there praying on teenagers for sex. This here is a hard issue which lions gate managed to adapt and create into an action packed film that appealed

to a lot of people. And this here is what I too, want to attempt. To take an issue (albeit mine more philosophical)

and convert it into a film that the mass audience would take.