Influences

The plot for our story is heavily influenced by the Final Destination films. In these feature films, the main character experiences 'visions' or 'premonitions' which show how his friends will die. He then has to act upon this information in order to protect his friends from death. In our short film, the male character appears to experiece similar premonitions. The difference with our short film is that, the deaths are a lot simpler, and therefore are more likely to happen in real life e.g. stepping out into the road and being hit by a car, as apposed to being stabbed and set on fire simultaneously, as seen in Final Destination.  We liked the idea of the character waking up and realising that his dream was not just an ordinary dream, but a vision. Our plot uses this idea but puts a twist on it. We decided to base it on a situation that our target audience is likely to encounter on a daily basis. for most people, their daily commute is so mundane and repetative that they could do it with their eyes closed. Our short film takes this idea, and uses it as a ploy to draw the audience's attention in. They can expect that something interesting is about to happen, but they get the enjoyment of trying to figure out what might happen. 
a recurring theme through our short film is the idea of parallels. Constantly the shots are switching between the lives of two different people, highlighting the ways in which something as simple as their journey to work can be so different. Although this was not directly influenced by any individual piece of media, it is a common trademark in action films to have a male character who leads a fast paced dangerous lifestlye, and a female who has nothing better to worry about than her hair and her routine life. In our short film, we are working on the stereotypes that one character is male and one is female, but this is simply through choice, as the idea could work with two male characters or two females just as well. Both characters would still have the contrasting lifestyles, it just means we would not have the gender stereotypes to play up to.