Pink Moon

 

Pink Moon is about a society where heterosexuals are persecuted

and abortion is forbidden, two teens are forced to hide an

unintended pregnancy before their secret romance is exposed.

I have always been passionate about animal welfare and wanted

to find a way to make people think about how the animals must

be feeling and not just presume it must all be okay because it's

legal. This film made me think about how I could make a film

about a society where people are the ones that suffer like animals

do. To see if it could make people realise what other lives go

through, as it makes the ‘other life’ similar to theirs making it

easier to relate to. Then they will be more likely to understand

and make a change, like in ‘Pink Moon’ where heterosexuals are

the minority instead, making you think how would you feel? Role

reversals really help put into perspective how it would feel if it

where you.

 

This was my main inspiration behind my thought process for my film.

 

 

The Graduate

 

This film is very different to my film but I liked the narrative at the

end. I liked the twist that even though it was a happy ending and

they ended up together, there was that daunting thought at the

end of have they done the right thing? What happens now? What

happens when everything has worked out and you find out that

you're just a couple of people sitting on a bus, wondering who

the hell you and the person beside you are? This has similarities

to what I wanted to achieve in my film. At the end Leah saves the

sapien and all appears well, but as Leah drives off she notices all

the other sapiens and the sudden realisation that it isn't a happy

ending, what about all the other sapiens? Even though she stopped

one sapien from dying, they are all still there at the farm with more

cruelty to come.

 

This will give the audience some satisfaction that not all ended

badly and also give the audience some motivation that they can

do something like Leah did. But also show them that it isn't over,

they still need to do their bit even though it's going to be a big

issue and may take time to get put right.

 

 

Children of Men

 

When infertility threatens mankind with extinction and the last child

born has perished, a disillusioned bureaucrat (Clive Owen)

becomes the unlikely champion in the fight for the survival of Earth's

population; He must face down his own demons and protect the

planet's last remaining hope from danger.

 

This film explores similar themes as Sapiens does. The 'what if?' idea

makes people second think about their behaviour and the long term

effect it will have on the world. Children of Men says what if women

where infertile due to factors like pollution, what would happen to

the world? Sapiens questions the idea of role reversals, what if we

where the ones being farmed? It also questions our behaviour and

how we treat others and what that could lead to.

 

The world the society lives in within Children of Men isn't too different

form today apart from technology has advanced a little as it is set in

the not too distant future, but it's only subtle. It also may seem different

to our culture and society due to all the disasters taking place,

including the immigration police treating the immigrants brutally. But

when you think about it, in some places around the world that is

happening, even in England you hear about prisons and immigration

officers abusing the more vulnerable. This relates to my film as the

sapiens get treated horrifically linking to cows and refugees today.

 

The colours and look of the film I also want to take inspiration from to

help get the similar feel and conventions of the social science fiction

genre.

 

 

Avatar

 

On the lush alien world of Pandora live the Na'vi, beings who appear

primitive but are highly evolved. Because the planet's environment is

poisonous, human/Na'vi hybrids, called Avatars, must link to human

minds to allow for free movement on Pandora. Jake Sully, a paralyzed

former Marine, becomes mobile again through one such Avatar and

falls in love with a Na'vi woman. As a bond with her grows, he is drawn

into a battle for the survival of her world.

 

Avatar is also a social science fiction film like Sapiens but it too as a

deep meaning about the world. It questions do humans connect with

the environment? Do humans live separate lives from nature? Why do

humans feel separate from other kinds of life? Are corporations

heartless? What does it mean to be human and what is our relationship

to things not human? Many of these questions are also explored in my

film. Why do humans feel separate from the Sapiens? Are farms and

the meat and dairy industry heartless? My film and Avatar explores

human behaviour and what it is to be human and why we act the way

we do.

 

The appearance of the Avatar has similarities to how I want my

sapiens to look. The avatars are visually different in size and

colour but they still have some resemblance to how humans look.

I want my sapiens to share this idea of looking the same but different

so that my audience find it easier to relate and feel sympathetic

towards them.

 

Another main similarity with my film and Avatar is in Avatar when Jake

goes to the Na’vi’s world love opens his eyes to the similarities between

the humans and the Na’vi. In Sapiens when Leah gets to see how the

sapiens live she realises they have feelings and aren’t too different

from humans. Like Avatar I want my film to make people think about

how we as humans treat other living things and how we should be more

compassionate as everything is connected and we share the world, we

don’t own it.  

 

 

The Slaughter

 

This short film is about a pig farmer who tests his unemployed son's

resolve to join the family business.

 

I liked this film's cinematography and colour. The look of this film is

what I aim to achieve with my film. It is a cold film like Sapiens and

the blue look to the film really makes it feel dark, cold and unsettling.

 

Even though the underlying message in this film is different to mine

it still has the same themes and feel of the animal product industry

linked within it.

 

I also like the directing in the film and how every part to the film adds

depth and meaning to the story.

 

 

Never Let Me Go

 

As children, Ruth, Kathy and Tommy spend their childhood at a

seemingly idyllic English boarding school. As they grow into young

adults, they find that they have to come to terms with the strength

of the love they feel for each other, while preparing themselves for

the haunting reality that awaits them.

 

This film has links to genres used in my film. The sci-fi element is

similar as it is in a similar world to today but has furturistic elements

or a different society like mine and makes the audience think about

certain practices going on and what this could lead to. It has a

message of how we treat humans and questions what is acceptable

and what isn't. In the film they bring children up for their organs and

use them if someone needs a transplant and have no rights to life and

no medical rights either. I also like the way it is filmed the colouring

and over all look to the film.