Films That Have Influenced Me

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There are a number of films which have influenced when coming up with our final film. The first of these being Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). 
"A bored married couple is surprised to learn that they are both assassins hired by competing agencies to kill each other." - IMDB
Another element of a film we liked was the opening to the film Lord Of War (2005)


The thing we liked most of all about opening was the way it followed something through its life. We aren't going to use this for the opening's entirety, just the first 15-20 seconds.

Something I personally would've liked to have done was a breaking of the fourth wall, where a character talks to the camera as if they were actually talking to the audience. This can be seen at the beginning of Lord Of War, but rather more famously, it is used in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)


Something else I would have liked to have done was to film something in one take. On the face of it, that seems like you want to take shortcuts in the editing stages, but in fact it can show you have excellent directing skills. Something like this needs to be all done in one go, hence the single take, unless you are capable of editing clips seamlessly together. Lord Of War is made to appear as one take, but those areas where you can only see the bullets, and given these are CGI (you can tell by the poor (by today's standard at least) light rendering that they aren't the real deal), they can use these as breaks to make it seamless. Filming in a single take will require a lot of patience since messing up is an almost guaranteed unusable clip (or perhaps one for the bloopers reel). An example of this, other than Lord Of War, which I previously mentioned, is Shaun Of The Dead (2004). They use this twice in the film, both following the same route. Firstly on a normal day and then on the day of the outbreak. The clip below is prior to the outbreak



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