Now that we had finished both our poster and our radio advert, it was time to concentrate on the first edit of the actual film as our teacher decided that the best time to finish the first edit was straight after Half Term. However, we have already edited some of the film already (due to the fact that when we were unable to use some of the equipment when we wanted to, so we started editing our film so make use of the time), so this deadline of after Half Term is easily achievable.
In terms of analysing full-lentgh feature films, we chose 'Donnie Darko' and 'Memento'.
'Donnie Darko' (2001)
This film applies to our film a lot because it tells the story of Donnie Darko, a teenager is plagued by Frank, a hallucination that takes the form of a demonic rabbit. Frank proceeds to threaten everything in Donnie's life while no one seems to believe him; Gretchen is one of the few people with whom Donnie can divulge his visions. This is largely similar to our film, however we have chosen to use a person to plague Lucy to make it slightly easier for us and we feel that if we used something like a demonic rabbit, it would take away from the thriller aspect of the film and would make it more comedic.
'Memento' (2000)
One thing that we decided to take from this film is the use of black and white footage and colour and how they are used to distinguish between past events and present events. We thought that this was very effective, and we would use this to show the difference between Lucy's hallucinations and reality. We also liked the way that the plot is jumbled up, but I don't think that this would work with our film; I don't think that we would be able to use it effectively within 5 minutes without it becoming very confusing.
