Technical Inspiration

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We got our inspiration for the lighting of this piece from the episode of Black Mirror in which a boy is being black mailed by an anonymous person. In the episode the boy is in his room and is lit dimly by a lamp and not much else. We wanted to replicate this to show that our character was working late when the incidents began happening.


Another film that we took some technical inspiration from was the new movie Nerve. In this film they use a particular camera angle that can be seen in the image above where the audience is seeing the character through the lens of the laptops webcam. We wanted to do this in our film. However, we tweaked it a little bit as we used an 8mm lens to create a fisheye effect.

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