During the networking event many people had said that out idea was similar to Shrooms. none of us had seen it before so I thought I best that I go watch it.
"3 couples go to Ireland woods to collect magic mushrooms and trip out. On their way they meet some strange inhabitants of the woods and it doesn't take long until a creepy story is being told at the campfire which might be more than just a story. So strange things happen, people start disappearing, silhouettes move through the woods and the creepy story starts to melt into reality. The horror kicks in along with the effect of the mushrooms."
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I think this narrative is really good and we could take aspects from it. They seem to have to one character that is knowledgeable about the drugs teaching the other characters and thus giving the audience a bit more background information about the drugs in use.
Watching this film I do see similarities in this and ours but this is much more darker and a thriller where as we want something a lot more light-heartened. Editing wise I think the Trip scenes are really well done and a lot more realistic compared to Across the Universe. As you can see in the screen shots they have use a lot of overlay on the scenes with a slight delay and change in opacity in the different layers. I really like this effect and think this would work well in ours. It a simply effect to apply but I think is very effective in distorting the image.
Shrooms is a very dark film with a lot of the trips happening at night in the dark woods whereas I think a lot more of ours is going to be set in the day. This will mean i can still play around with this effect but also there will be a lot more colours for me to play around with in the shots.
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