Research & Inspiration.

During the research process of our task we were asked to watch three films of a similar genre to get some ideas and inspiration for our own story lines. The three films we chose to watch and analyze were: Shrooms, The Hole, and perhaps the most famous The Blair Witch Project. All three are of the same genre as our piece and aimed at a similar target audience, a teen range from the age of fifteen.


Shrooms - 2006


Shrooms follows the story of many teenagers partying and experiementing with drugs in the woods. This is very similar to our piece as Karly's Character is drugged and the effects are shown in our film. We also needed similar shot types take for example the hand held shots when the teenagers are running through the woods. We liked the idea of filming from the stalkers point of view. We also filmed some scenes from a birds eye view.







The Blair Witch Project - 1999

The Blair Witch Project follows a group of teenagers who film a documentary in the woodland. However the footage is lost and then regained a year later. This particular film follows the conventions we wished to use in our piece. Handheld camera moments. This worked very effectively in our piece as many moments of tension in our film are created by running holding the camera this revealed the characters true emotions.







The Hole - 2001

The Hole influenced our filming because the opening is very similar to our own as it is set in a woods. We took our inspiration from the beggining scene of the film. Similarly to the other two films we analysed The Hole is set in a woodland area and underground bunker.