A lot of our inspiration came from the film Mirrors (2008). It is set in New York, where Ben Carson, played by Kiefer Sutherland, is hired to
work as night watch man of the remains of the Mayflower Department Store that was
partially destroyed by fire many years previously. Ben sees the employment as a chance
to rebuild his life. When he goes to the rounds in his first night, he finds
that the mirrors are impeccably clean and his colleague explains that the
former night watch was obsessed by the mirrors. After a couple of nights, Ben
sees weird images in the mirrors, but due to his history of alcoholism, his
ex-wife Amy believes he is having hallucinations as a side effect of his medication.
When his sister Angie is found brutally murdered in her bathtub, Ben discovers
that there is an evil force in the mirror that is chasing him
and jeopardising his family.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0790686/plotsummary
This film plot line links in with our theme of good and evil. The idea is to have a female lead who plays the role of an innocent girl. she will be very vulnerable, as most girls this age are, to peer pressure and is influenced to do bad things, like cutting herself by an 'evil' girl who is stalking her. We really liked the idea of her looking into the mirror while her reflection looked back. The reflection then does something sinister and different to what the person looking into the mirror does so you know that something bad is going on. We wanted to incorporate something similar but we were not able to use the same person to be on both sides as we didn't have the experience or technology required to perform this shot. Therefore, we decided that we would get the the main character to go into the toilet and then show a shot of her like she is looking in the mirror, but in the dark and her face is lit so it looks sinister.
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