Saturday, February 20, 2021

Got Inspiration? - Portfolio Project Blog Post #5

 

GOT INSPIRATION?

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In my previous post, I discussed my group's newest idea for our genre and overall feel for our film opening, post-apocalyptic. We want to emphasize the feeling of vulnerability and loneliness in a vacant world, breaking various "survivor" tropes within the opening as well. 

There are various films that I have gathered inspiration from for the mood of our introduction, and while many of them lack similar traits to our film (such as A Quiet Place's antagonist being a monster), all of these examples emphasize either vulnerability or loneliness.


Cast Away

In the film "Cast Away," a man by the name of Chuck Noland is stranded on a vacant island after his plane crashes in the South Pacific. Throughout the piece, he scavenges to keep himself alive, searching for food, shelter, and entertainment (which he finds in a volleyball named Wilson). 

Cast Away is a film highlighting "Man VS Nature," and, even if our opening is meant to portray "Man VS the Unknown," there is much inspiration we can take from this movie about survival. Our character, who is not yet named, is a sole survivor herself who must gather materials to stay alive, much like Chuck Noland. It might also be beneficial for us to take notes on Tom Hanks' acting, as he does a phenomenal job at presenting a man who has lacked human contact for a prolonged period of time. 






















A Quiet Place

"A Quiet Place" is a horror film that highlights vulnerability. A family of four (that was once five) seems to be one of the sole survivors in a world that has fallen. Throughout the film, they avoid making any noise, as the monsters hunting them down travel through sound. Creating vulnerability off of one of the very things that make us human (making sound) is a concept that has always interested me, and while we may not be able to incorporate this in our opening, we can definitely use some other ideas from this film in our own. 
The first ten minutes of A Quiet Place displays a run-down world, with shots of street lights and vacant streets. A family is inside of a market store with mostly empty shelves and dirty floors, searching for materials in silence. Despite their situation, however, they still manage to have some humanity left in them. Regan, the sister, communicates with her brother through sign language, smiling as he signs back to her. In our opening, I want to have this "human" moment in which our character displays some internal emotions that do not revolve around survival.



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