After the nightmare we had previous, we started from scratch. We had lost Josh as a member of the group. So the 3 of us discussed what our film should be about, and thought about what film (s) we could make ours similar to. We decided to make it almost a cross between "Saw" and "Phone Booth".
"SAW" (2004)
Saw is a film about two men who wake up at opposite ends of a dirty, dis-used bathroom and are given the task to kill the other before 6.00. There lives are being controlled by the "Jigsaw Killer". We tried to adopt characteristics of the "Jigsaw Killer", for example the way he plays his mind-games, and how he is clever and manipulative in the way he finds a way to get his victms to kill each other. We thought the twisted, sadistic side of his character would work for our main character, and how he tortures his victms. We liked the idea that Saw had of the setting being dark, we thought it added to the overall feeling and emotion of the characters.
The saw franchise is proving to be one of the most successful in film history, with all 5 of the films acheiving a spot in the top 1,000 of the all-time US box office. All 5 films together has provided a total revenue of $668,179,508.
When making the 5th saw the budget was almost 10 times as much they had for the first.
Saw was graded a B+ on "Yahoo Movies"
"Phone Booth" (2002)
Phone Booth is about an arrogant New York publicist (Colin Farrell) who every day uses the same pay phone to call the woman he's cheating on his wife with. however when the phone rings in the booth, Stu naturally picked it up and finds out the caller is a visible sniper who knows everything about Stu, the caller has Stu as a hostage.
Again we had similarities to this film, too start with we used the idea of a man picking up a ringing phone and being terrorised by the caller. We also used the idea of the caller speaking down the phone, barking orders at him. We also like the idea of giving the victm a chance of escape but to give him a moral dilemma.
Phone Booth got $97,837,138, and is just outside the top 1,000 in all-time US box office history.
Friday 24 April 2009
Evaluation - BBFC
Every film, DVD, video game has an age rating, these are implemented to protect younger people from viewing a film with inappropriate content. It is a way of helping parents decide of a film is suitable for there children.
Our film
As our film aims to be a pyschological thriller, we decided it would probably be given a "15" certificate due to the swearing and through the manner of how a character in our film is terrorising the other. However in the clip actually shown, there isn't any acts of violence dispalyed, but the psychological element would probably make the clip fall into the 12A bracket.
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