Oren Peli- Influence

Chloe has researched into the film director Oren Peli and as a group we decided to use him as an influence for our film, we decided this because he directs low budget horror films, this is like ours because we obviously don’t have a big budget. The way his films are conventional with the way he always has unsuspecting victims who then fall into the clutches of the ‘villain’. Peli only uses less known actors as his main characters, by doing this he has stopped the audience from relating the actor to a film they have previously seen them in, also the fact that they aren’t well known makes his films more like a documentary rather than a fictional horror movie. Our main interest with Peli’s work is the way they are filmed; they are filmed almost as though the characters are the directors this makes the movie scarier as it seems realistic. For our trailer we wanted it to be as though the girls are filming it themselves, as though they were documenting their experiences.