Character and Film Comparsion

When we were researching for our trailer, we were continuously brainstorming ideas together making lists and updating them.  Most importantly though we had to do our own research, with this we found a couple of really intriguing thrillers that lead on to making our decision for our final idea. That was the stalker narrative and the victim being harassed by a unknown caller.

 A film that inspired us a lot was the film called 'Obsessed' that starred Beyonce, this film had a really interesting narrative. Beyonce's character thinks that her husband is cheating on her and then is confronted with a situation that she cant really handle but the woman she is confronted with is crazy. 

In this sense the narrative is similar to the film 'Obsessed' but in comparison in terms of shots and sound the film 'Gone' is similar to what we based our shots on.

That's one of the posters for the film obsessed.

And this is one of the posters for the film 'Gone'

In a particular shot in the film 'Gone' it seems also exact with how we have portrayed Harley, at the end of the trailer we see Harley's character behave abnormal this is similar to the end trailer of 'Gone'.

This shot in particular is similar with the lighting, looking like it was taken in a night mode and also the positioning that the actress is in seems similar to the way Harley is when she is crawling up the stairs, in the fast shots towards the end of our trailer.

I think that character comparison is very important and so is researching films and the way the narrative takes place in a variety of trailers, it gives a wide range of ideas. By creating this thriller we had a lot of ideas from watching previous trailers and i think from both of us it helped a great deal, when deciding what to wear, how the shots should be taken for instance this shot above is practically on eye level and this is to allow the audience to feel apathetic towards the victim whereas if we had taken this shot from a birds eye high angled shot the audience would have felt of a higher status. That's not what we wanted we wanted to make the audience understand the victims point of view.