My Inspirations (Harry)

For me a lot of my inspirations were more involved with the story or plot as opposed to a variation of shots or effects. I think looking at our film with a bit of depth or analysing it more then just watching it for fun you can spot some of the things which influenced me in the character development area of the film.

For example the character of Barry has some strong influences from characters in other films. A film trilogy both me and Chris are heavily influenced by is the Lord Of The Rings Trilogy (Peter Jackson) and there are a few elements that both Barry and Frodo share for example they are both under a heavy burden with Frodo's being The Ring and Barry's being the fact that he can see the end of the world whilst others around him can not and would think he is insane if he tells anyone. Also another influence would be Peter Parker from the Spiderman movies (Sam Raimi.) The resemblances between these two are that they are both like normal or average people with a secret that makes them extremely different to everyone else but only they know of this thing that makes them different. Also between these two they are both constantly tired from work and are struggling with some of the difficulties in life such as getting enough money for rent to have anything left to live off. A third influence to the Barry character is Ned Schneebly off the movie School Of Rock (Richard Linklater - 2003) This is movie influenced both of our characters moreover then just Barry. It's a film both me a Chris like so it was something we both agreed on. Barry and Gregg resemble Ned and Dewey because they are two friends who have a lot of history but also are now completely different. Barry is a hardworking, self-sufficient, independent whilst Gregg is the complete opposite being a lazy, unemployed loser. However the catch is that these two completely opposite people make a brilliant team and also are the best of friends.

Out of character development films that influenced me would be films that include something unordinary and paranormal in a modern day realistic setting. So for example The Terminator series of films played a big part in when I was thinking of an idea for a film with Chris right at the beginning of this project.

However I did not want to rip these films off completely and had a lot of fun with Chris developing the characters and making certain traits that they had. I enjoyed designing the Gregg character especially and I also liked the contrast between the two. You could say there are resemblances between them two with me and Chris, me obviously being more Barry then Gregg though.