Research into similar products

To support our thriller planning, as a group we did some research into films that are similar to ours. This is posted on Holly's blog:
http://rhs-hollyf-media.blogspot.com/2010/11/research-into-similar-products-we-are.html#comments


These films, as well as all the others that we have looked at over the past few weeks while doing audience research have influenced our thriller majorly. For example the large rabbit in Donnie Darko as the idea of being followed by something that is not actually there, an idea which we developed when we first started planning. We came up with the idea of being followed through the woods, but we decided to make it so it is being haunted by the sub conscious mind as this was much less cliche, and created a more interesting storyline and character dynamic. This is a similar thing, that influenced us after looking at the Machinist, although we developed our idea further for the whole film, with the development that the main character is slowly deteriorating into madness as the tormention of the conscious gets worse.