For Evaluation Question 1 we analysed our OTS and matched various scenes within it to other scenes from famous horror films that we were inspired by our OTS used the conventional vulnerable blonde woman as a victim. We did this because most horror films use a blonde woman as the victim. This links to Wheeler Winston Dixon's theory where it shows the victim at the end of an OTS as being just a "sight for attention". The uniqueness of our OTS idea made it very hard to find similar moving images, however this proves that as an idea it works well for a horror because there is a gap in the market, but we did take a lot of inspiration from various horror films.
We took inspiration of a locked up, vulnerable person who becomes more and more insane as time goes on from "Pet". Aspects that were similar included a caged/trapped victim and the victim being blonde, as well as the victim being covered in blood.In today's horror film industry, victims are often shown to be in cages or trapped in a dark location, this is what we intended to follow within our OTS.
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Quite a few horror films contain a dream sequence of some sort which portrays the character as hallucinative and unsettled. In these sequences we used props and ideas which are stereotypically linked to horror, these included: a snake, blades and the power of suggestion is used to make the audience assume the blade went into a persons eye. One example of a dream sequence being used is in The Conjuring 2 about the nun called Valak.
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Overall most of the scenes were mostly modeled around some of these famous films, the ideas and creative art styles inspired most of the shooting for the OTS. However not all of them worked or were used, but some of the scenes just look like other scenes from other films without intention of using them.