Research sources

In order to have an understanding of the film genre and the themes and ideas in the film, we researched on similar films and other media. This helped us understand how we could build up tension through the scene and what other films have similar themes to 'Elizabeth's Dairy'.

The Shawshank redemption

After the murder of his wife, successful banker Andrew Dufresne is sent to Shawshank prison, who suffers the usual unpleasantness of prison. Over the years, he retains hope and eventually gains the hope of his fellow inmates. He becomes friends with prisoner 'Red', and realises why it is crucial to have dreams. With Andy's spirit and desire, the film leads us into a world of spirit and imagination on Red and Andy's Journey inside the prison walls.

There is a famous scene in The Shawshank Redemption that will be useful for our film. This features a hanging scene, where the character Brooks Hatlen hangs himself when he is released from Shawshank as he feels he has no quality in life in the outside world. In this scene you see feet rocking on a chair and the chair fall over. This then reveals Brooks was here on the beam he was hanging from. We might use this in our product because it could make the scene more effective than showing the face of the girl hanging. This would leave the girls death to the audience's imagination which would be more realistic than how we could show it.

The Ring

A mysterious video tape is killing off anyone who watches it. Whenever the victim watches it, the phone rings, telling them they have only one week to live. A young reporter named Rachel is investigating these events, but after she and her small son watch the tape, it becomes a race against time to find out why the tape is killing everyone and how it could be stopped. The girl who is featured in the killer video tape, has the look that we wanted to have for the girl in the film. She has inspired us for the Elizabeth's character, hair and dress, which will help us choose a suitable actor.