Short film inspirations for project

To help create our short film, we were told to look at three short films that would inspire our piece.

Film 1: 'How to Murder a Best Friend' - 2017, directed by Rohan Yadav
For me, the first short film I looked at was called 'How to murder a best friend'. For my original idea, I originally wanted the two main characters to be just a wife and mistress, however, after watching this short film, I soon realized how much more impactful the argument and characters could be made if the two were actually best friends rather than strangers.

Although this film is in a different language, the basic premise is clear - three friends getting into an argument, and then planning and carrying out the murder.

How to Murder a Best Friend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpP7hlOv34Q 

Film 2: 'Betrayal' - 2015, directed by Daniel Medrano 
This short film revolves around a young female student who is with her boyfriend, she is later killed by that same boyfriend as she is stabbed with a knife after running away from a hooded figure chasing her.

This became an inspiration for my short film as it centers on a 'loved one' being killed, seemingly for no sown purpose or motive. I decided to take that and twist it for my film, where the mistress is found out and killed by the wife, only for the wife to find that her husband and best friend had already betrayed her by planning to murder her.

Betrayal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqgL70XdYHU

Film 3: 'Betrayed' - Directed by Michael Ellis
This film encapsulates my entire film with its single plotline: 'Jennifer, a loyal and faithful wife, resorts to murder, after finding out her husband and her best friend have been having an affair'. The plot inspired mine as it directly links to my plot. The difference between my film and theirs is that in their film, you never see the murder, it is just always implied and is replaced with tension being built, with my one we physically see the mistress being murdered (something I made as a personal choice)

Betrayed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfctaqANHPc 


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