The document compares scenes from various films and games to a psychological thriller sequence called "The Salvatore" involving a man trapped in a room with keys. It analyzes similarities in shots, props, and plot elements between "The Salvatore" and scenes from Saw V, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, and the video game Outlast. Specifically, it notes similarities in the use of keys, padlocks, lighting, and the tension of trying to escape within a time limit. The document concludes that while inspiration may have been drawn from other media, the analyzed works were not directly inspirations for "The Salvatore."

1. Media Question 1

2. Saw V Vs The Salvatore
Following Jigsaw's grisly demise,
Mark Hoffman is commended as a
hero, but Agent Strahm is
suspicious, and delves into
Hoffman's past. Meanwhile,
another group of strangers are put
through a series of gruesome tests.
Saw V The Salvatore
Psychological thriller sequence
based on a man trapped in
room full of keys and only one
padlock, he needs to escape
before the enemies will come to
shoot him.

3. Comparison of shots
In Saw V scene the keys are
contained in jars but the shots used
is the same used in our opening
sequence for The Salvatore. In both
movies the used pan to illustrate the
props being used.
In the Salvatore keys are stuck on the
ceiling, the same as Saw, and stressed
is shown towards the scene to find the
right key in a set time condition, other
wise a fatal end will occur.

4. The location are ferly different but
shown in a similar way. In Saw the
location is dark and not lighted to
increase the feeling of darkness and
shadow of the actual movie it self.
The set for our thriller sequence is set in
a cell and only one character is
involved. The lighting is dull but bright
enough do differentiate every single
element presented in the room.

5. Saw V present several doors,
within padlocks and their keys.
The close ups shown in the
sequence are very similar to the
one presented in the other thriller.
The padlock is both scene are one
of the key elements that shows
time running and tension.
The padlock in the Salvatore was shown
several times was the only present in the
cell and the aim of the whole challenge is to
find the right key.
In both thrillers the props have an ancient
look to give the idea of mystery, even
through in The Salvatore you can see a
modernised touch to the composition of the
design.

6. The movements claim the same
feeling: frustration, confusion,
anger and hope. In Saw is lot more
active as four characters are
involved.
In this shot one of the character
has been bitten up and is lying on
the floor in pain, cover of blood
and about to the take a key for one
of the door, it shows similarities to
The Salvatore.
The beginning of the opening sequence of
The Salvatore, there is the main character
lying on the floor waking up after he had
been bitten up and even if in pain he finds
the strength to pick up the key standing on
the floor and standing up, to see the
surrounding.
The actual shot, a close up of their faces.

7. The main difference was the uses of
different type of keys, however the
aim of those props are the same,
escaping from the room in time,
opening the padlock. The process to
find the right key in saw was lot
quicker but we need to consider that
there where more characters
contributing to the action and the
number of props weren't the same.
The Salvatore emphasise lot more the
discover of the right/wrong key keeping the
mystery until the end of the sequence, to keep
the viewers tension up until the very end and
questioning the happening and what is next.
Close ups of key, focus points and pans are
all shots used to draw the attention of the
viewers.

8. Harry Potter Philosophers Stone
Vs
The Salvatore
In Harry Potter movie there is a scene
where the three children to get into the
next room they need to find the right
key and they will be challenged by it,
with magical aspects.
A psychological thriller based on
and trapped in a room full keys and
just one padlock, with the condition
of time running he need to escape
from the room before they will come
to kill him.
Harry Potter The Salvatore

9. In Harry Potter, the used a shot to
illustrate the amount of keys flying
on the ceiling, looking upwards,
giving more the sense of depth of
filed as well as filling the room.
The Salvatore present very shots to clarify
the presence of keys in the cell, especially
at the biggining of the opening sequence
while the main character is looking
upwards followed by a shot with just
keys, similar to the one shown in Harry
Potter.

10. A close up of the main key is shown, as
it stands out from the other if you look
carefully, but it is not easy to find it
and gutted as frustration and fear
income over other feelings.
A change of focus point followed by an
extreme close up is illustrated in the
thriller sequence, the main key
differentiate from the others as it is the
oldest but you need to look carefully,
although that is the right key the
audience won’t know it that the main
character will escape from the cell, to
keep in action the mystery and thrills of
the sequence.

11. The characters once found the right key
they don’t have lots of time to escape
from the room so impatiens they try to
open the door increasing the felling of
time running and tension.
Until they don’t actually get out of the
room.
Feeling of frustration, tension and
impatient come across through out the
clip more and more as time passes,
although we will never know what
happens to the protagonist of the
sequence.
The shots is based on showing the door
and the suspense of finding the
right/wrong key.

12. Outlast Vs The Salvatore
Outlast
In outlast video game you have the
perception and perspective of being
trapped in this building and try to
escape before they will come to
torcher you. The rooms are dark and
you can you a night camera to see in
details the different object that you
as a player is surrounded by.
The Salvatore
Psychological thriller sequence
based on a man trapped in room
full of keys and only one
padlock, he needs to escape
before the enemies will come to
shoot him.

13. The player need to escape from the
building before they come to torcher
him, some targets are set for him to
escape, for example finding a key.
Space are dark and small to
emphasise the idea of claustrophobia
and increase the tension feeling.
In The Salvatore the whole sequence is
filmed in a small cell, as it is cover with
keys it gives the impression that the
cell it even smaller. The lighting is dark
and dull add tension and illusion.

14. To escape the building the player
needs to find the key, so we can
clearly see the similarity from the
two media products, plot wise.
The player won’t finish the game
until he/she finds the key so there
is a certain ending, of the key been
found.
In The Salvatore the protagonist trapped
in the cell need to find the right key to
unlock the padlock in a set time The
movie finishes before the audience sees if
the main character escape from the room
or is being killed.

15. The game shows the different
perspectives of doors and padlock,
from the player perspective.
The view is dark and sound wise
the have the door shakes.
The protagonist through out the scene
tries several time to open the padlock
unsuccessfully, shaking and punching
the door for frustration, increasing the
tension of the thriller sequence.

16. Over all there are different media products that are similar to The
Salvatore, I looked at two different films and a video game to show
variety as well as the the idea or matching camera movements and plot.
They all present similarity between each other as well as differences.
This task shows that every media product or something were imagination
and creativity is required in some ways it will be related with other
products seen before or it won’t be as unique as imagined at first.
Inspiration might have been taken from different sources, I just want to
make sure that all the media product I analysed in this PowerPoint
weren’t part of out inspirational product as some of us have never seen
those media products before.

17. Thank you