Documenting the Influences of our production

Throughout my life, i have enjoyed picking up a camera and learning how to use it and the find out the wonders of technology. I wanted to do media for part of my studies in 6th form due to the sheer excitement of being able to use my knowledge of cameras and editing to produce my own production. Below are some of the influences that have inspired me.

Director - Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg, is one of the most significant and influential directors in the present history of film. He is known as one of Hollywood’s wealthiest filmmakers in the world and has produced many successful films. Spielberg, throughout his career, as a producer, director and writer, has countless credits that have been critically acclaimed and also has countless big-grossing films. 

Location – Highgate cemetery

Using this location was convenient for us to use as my associate and me came up with the script, even though we could film in any cemetery, we felt as if this one stood out. The cemetery has a big location; we can get many types of shots in.

Films

Some movies that have helped influence our film is the movie Grave Encounters, and as a part of the direction of “More Than Human, we believed that we should follow in the steps of this film and create something that has the similar effect. There are also a few other films that helped in the influence of our film, REC (2007) and The Blair Witch Project being some of the films that helped and influenced us on how to make a found footage horror.

We have had a broad range of films that we have been working on. We both wanted to do a film, for example, our film, “More Than human, we wanted to please the teenage and young adult target audience, with hope of scoring highly for the film and production.

Photoshop/Sony Vegas

With regard to Photoshop, it enabled us to create magnificent poster and magazine covers, something other software’s couldn’t offer us. We used Sony Vegas to edit our trailer; we have found this software very useful as it provided many editing tools to the footage.