LO2: Footage in the style of chosen genre:

The genre of my short film is satire, and in particular the satire of a new sci-fi like technology in a dystopian world in a very similar yet less sophisticated to the series Black Mirror, who's films are made in sci-styles, however the narratives are usually very darkly funny. You can see that my footage has been influenced by Black Mirror, for example the scene where the office workers computer is glitching, looks very similar to the type of visuals you would see in a Black Mirror episode.

Screenshot from Black Mirror Episode 2 Season 4:

Screenshot from my own short film:

You can see that including a glitch in the short film gives my film a very dystopian aestetic, which Black Mirror successfully manage to create. 

Another satirical film I pastiched was Barton Fink, and although Barton fink isn't related to sci-fi there is a scene which inspired me to use candle light as the lighting in the scene where the Office worker is murdered, since the Coen Brothers did the same thing in Barton fink. 

Screenshot from Barton Fink when a detective gets murdered:

Screenshot from my own film when the office worker gets murdered:

I think the satirical genre likes to use fire as lighting for death scenes, because it gives the scene a very hellish appearance, almost as if the murderer is sending whoever is being murdered to hell, which is a satire of religion in itself. The Coen Brothers are very good at creating a terrifying villian yet also creating a character which you will happily watch the villain murder, I tried to mimic this style by making my protagonist come across as slightly pathetic. 

I also satired the time travel genre successfully in my short film, with the inclusion of the famous cat clock from the film Back to the Future. The cat clock gives my short film a very comical aethstetic and is a direct homage to one of the original time travel films.

Screenshot from Back to the Future:

Screenshot from my own footage: