Influences

Some of the influences over our opening have helped change the way we have progressed our idea. For example Miss Allison showed us the opening of Arlington road which we thought was a good reference, as some of the effects in Arlington Road, uses negative and inverted shots and effects to give a more eerie and creepy feel, we wanted to help use these techniques to improve our video, however we did feel that these effect weren't in keeping with the rest of our video so instead we used the idea of giving a strange editing feel to our video, so Dan used gamma correction to the video to slightly distort the video, and it solved our problem of the shots being too dark as it took down the brightness and emphasized the dark.

The influence of True Blood came about as I am a big fan of the show and so have seen the opening a lot of times over, and it immediately came to mind as the flashes of random shots and complementary music gives an offsetting feeling of anticipation and it soon because quite iconic after the show was first aired, we used this as an influence as the shots aren't only haphazard but quite ghastly and give a bona fide sense of shock.

American Horror Story (Season 1 / Season 2)was an influence as again it is one of my favorite shows, and I think its opening is very inspiring, and influential. The chaotic shots which flicker and jump around I thought would be brilliant to use as an influence as they really instigate a shock factor with the fast moving cuts and the controversial shots.

However what first made me come up with the idea for the Plot of Red was the song CYMK –James Blake which is why at first I was insisted we had to find a way to use it in our opening despite the very restricting copyright rules. As I originally fit the plot around the lyrics,
‘Look I found her,
Red Coat,
Look I found her.’
Perfect for Little Red Riding Hood with reference to the Red Coat, and look I found her as if she is being tracked down and is in hiding.