I had researched into a film called The Eye, which I thought it was very close to one of my ideas of the film: being followed and seeing things that are not real. The film is about a woman named Sydney Wells who is a successful classical violinist who has been blind since the age of five. Fifteen years later, now 20, Sydney takes a cornea transplant, which causes her eyesight to return, a bit blurry at first. As time goes on, Sydney's vision begins to clear; however, she also begins experiencing terrifying visions, mostly of fire and of people dying. The plot of the rest of the film concerns Sydney unravelling the mystery of the visions, and trying to convince others, firstly her visual therapist, Paul Faulkner, who becomes a helper in her quest. She knows that she is not going insane.

She goes to Mexico, where the donated corneas were originally from. The fire and people dying are the result of an industrial accident that the donor foretold and shortly after that hanged herself because she could not stop the accident from occurring, as her mum was inside the industry as well. Sydney puts the spirit to rest, and began her trek home. As Sydney and Paul wait in a queue of vehicles to cross the border, a high speed police chase ends with the fugitive crashing through the border barriers and into a tanker full of gasoline. Sydney, was able to still see the death silhouettes before it happened, begins to try to get everyone she can off the highway. The tanker explodes from a spark in the getaway car's engine, as Sydney tried to save the girl who she kept seeing in her dreams, which was trapped inside a caravan, the fire caused the window of the vehicle to blow up and glass flew into her eyes making her blind again. After recovering at a hospital, she returns to her life as a blind violinist, though with a more optimistic view of her condition.

The opening of this film, starts exactly with the end in which the film closed. The first 5 minutes are the cause of what the character Sydney undergoes throughout the entire movie. This opening is quite breathtaking as a lot of movement and camera angles and change in shots and characters is happening creating a great confusion in the viewer’s minds. However the opening isn’t very understandable until you go deeper into the film and in the end where you are making the connections of what the opening was quite about. The actions of the character are very prominent as they exactly show what she is doing and the allow the audience to connect to what will follow however they show a kind of false cause of the incidence purposely to let the audience guess what has made her come to this (strangulating herself). The shots themselves are taken of essential furniture and objects which implements what the persona will follow doing. I would like to use for my video the atmosphere the camera shots is creating and the lighting used in the scene as it was a quite dark place with minor lighting, making the scene seem as a mystery and giving the uncountable feeling for the audience. 

 

The film was distributed by the Lionsgate but also in partnership with Paramount Vantage. The Lionsgate is a North American Entertainment company. The company was created in Vancouver, the British Columbia and California. In today’s time this company has come to the most successful independent film and television Distribution Company in North America.  The Paramount Vantage is the film division of Paramount Pictures, charged with producing, purchasing, distributing and marketing films, generally those with a more "art house" feel than films made and distributed by its parent company. Paramount Classics was launched in 1998 and released such art house fare as The Virgin Suicides.

 

 For my video I will research more into these types of distributions, to see which will be perfect for my video.