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For our original idea Ellie’s influence was ‘The shinning’. She liked the idea of the two twin little girls. How they were innocent but still created this creepy atmosphere. She wanted to have at least one little girl like that, that looked innocent at first but was really evil. We then looked at the last scene of ‘Don’t look now’ and wanted to use that idea. Where there is a small character which makes the audience think they are harmless. And for that character to be sobbing so that the audience sympathise with the character and then when the character turns around it shocks the audience as the character is far from innocent. The music we want to use is the general thriller increasing movie which we got from several different films.

One particularly important text that directly influenct our casting and narrative construction was 'The Shinning', specifically the scene in which Danny encounters the ghosts of the dead twins in the hallway. this helped us to consider the construction of the mise-en-scene (hallway) and the aesthetic appearnce of the ghost child in our sequence. See