3. We have chosen Requiem For A Dream as our inspiration
towards out re-make of Ecstasy due to this film having the same
theme as our own. This film successfully shows drug taking and
the side effects of using drugs in a way which we do not class as
cheap, which is how I would describe our way of showing drug
use in our first version of Ecstasy. Successfully trying to show
drug use without making it really cheap and obvious to create
more suspense was hard, however remembering the film
Requiem For A Dream and the way the director shows drug
use, in such a snapshot, way with different sound effects and
lighting than the original film, makes the drug use seem
completely different to usual day life, which is what we wanted
to achieve as a group. Being inspired by Requiem For A Dream
really gave us a chance to work in styles of different directors
and widened our shots we made and how they were completed.
This film had relevance to what we wanted to display in our film
as we needed to show the negative effect of drugs, however in a
more Horror like way, which is like the theme of Requiem For A
Dream as the reason behind the film is the negative effects of
drug addiction, like our own theme.
