Influences

To get an understanding of what our film needed to consist of, I did some research into films based on homosexual, obsession storylines, and found a variety of films. Certain films that really stood out for me, and was an influence to help with our storyline were:
*One Hour Photo (Thriller)
*The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love
*Hollyoaks (TV Drama)
*Skins
*Asylum
*Posessed
*Thirteen

Hollyoaks: Sarah, Zoe & Lydia, the love triangle.

The three main characters in this special storyline were firstly Lydia, the key character. Lydia is a troubled young girl whose sexuality has made her into the obsessive crazy person she is in Hollyoaks. The obsessive Lydia drove previous girlfriend into falling in love with her best friend, due to her possessive and jealous antics over her friendship with Zoe. The troubled lesbian manipulates Sarah into thinking the worst of Zoe, only to later find out that Sarah wants Zoe and not her, but by this time, Lydia has gone crazy over Sarah. Her confused and mixed mind led her to kill off Sarah in spite of her love for fellow best friend Zoe, supposedly by accident, when the cut parachute was meant for Zoe.

Sarah on the other hand, is a confused popular girl in Hollyoaks, confused about her sexuality and her past intervention with best friend Zoe, she comes to terms with who she is, which led her to Lydia. Not knowing how obsessed Lydia is with her, Sarah confides in Zoe about her troubles with Lydia, Sarah then realises her feelings for Zoe are much more than friendship, she then wants to break things off with Lydia, which led her into her death, as Lydia over heard the conversation.

Zoe compared to both of them is an intellectual bubbly student in Hollyoaks, who is also confused with her sexuality, later on realises she is not what she thinks she is. Her main role in this whole situation is being Sarah’s best friend. Aware of Lydia’s antics and behaviour, Zoe warns Sarah off her, not in the sense she is in love with her but in the way of how a best friend would be looking out for her friend. Zoe being the good friend she is, Lydia doesn’t seem to see it like that.

This whole plot ends with Lydia attempting to murder Zoe after Sarah’s death, as revenge for her unhappiness. The plot ends in Lydia confessing the damage she has caused, therefore getting sent down for life, and Zoe being free of all charges against her but without her best friend.

The reason why we used this storyline as our main influence is because it really stood out from the rest, it expressed the same themes that we wanted to incorporate into our opening sequence. The reaction to this storyline in the public was fur nominal, as it gave an insight to so many different matters, which we found out when we were researching different situations to do with our theme. The idea of this storyline is very original which made it so successful along with the character being represented in detail, which made us more fascinated with doing a film similar to this. This plot overall gave us a huge influence in the production of our opening sequence, in ways of presenting the characters to the audience all the way to props and locations.