Video inspiration

Video Inspiration

When creating my video there were several other videos that inspired it such as ‘Kung Fury’ which is a 70’s inspired spoof of the ‘buddy cop’ and ‘marital art’ films which were popular at the time, much like how my film was intended to be a parody of B-movies as well as films which have an unstoppable main character. The short film uses tropes which were common in the original films as well as takes the look of sci-fi films such as bright neon lights, much like how when adding in effects to the original film I tried to make the laser shots seem like they were in the original film as well as be inspired how the effects would be done in a more extreme way such as when people are killed by the laser they explode. 

My video was also inspired by the ‘VHS boom’ where many low budget films were released on the format en masse in which the films would be about everything and anything, the main genre that came out of this which inspired my video is the monster/action films much like the ones that came out of Italy which usually have a poor rubber suited monster as the big bad of the film which I referenced when Rob shoots things from other films I included the giant Lobster monster which appeared at the end of ‘Teenagers from space’.