INFLUENCES AND RESEARCH
I did some research into looking at homosexual based or obsessed based storylines and found several movies and dramas;
-Notes on a Scandal
-My Summer of Love
-The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love
-Lost and Delirious
-Obsessed
-Desperate Housewives
-Hollyoaks
-Skins

Many of the movies and dramas focusing on homosexuality demonstrate that three is a crowd or a couple in a sly plot and they don't want the world to know. In some dramas the actors dont even realise that they are actually gay until put in a situation.
Obsessed based movies and dramas present obsession mainly towards another person and that person tends not to know what is going on or doesn't feel the same way and is usually medaling in a couples relationship.

We came together and decided to use Hollyoaks' Lydia, Sarah and Zoe's love triangle episode as our main influence. All three of us identifed this drama in our research as it best presents most of our ideas and conventions for our own movie plot and creates the key atmosphere helping to establish the genre.

In this intriguing Hollyoaks storyline, the key character Lydia is a lesbian who feelings develop for sarah as she spends more and more time with her and she becomes obsessed with her; always wanting to be around her, controlling who her friends are and even trying to manipulate her into believing her bestfriend is a jealous bitch as Lydia knows Zoe is a threat to her.
Her jelous antics caused her to plot to kill Zoe by cutting her parachute which Sarah took leading her to her death.

Sarah is the main character in this story as she is the victim Lydia is obsessed over. Sarah is a popular and beautiful young woman but confused about her sexuality after being in a relationship with both boys and girls including best friend Zoe. Sarah ended up being with Lydia clueless to Lydias obsession with her, as she realises her feeling for Zoe are coming back she wants to end things with Lydia.

Zoe also another main character is a clever, cheerful student also confused with her sexuality who's role is playing Sarah's best friend and being aware of Lydia's behaviour she is Sarah's warning but looks as if she is only trying to break them up so she can be with Sarah making the plot much more interesting and twisted. Lydia becomes frustrated with Zoe and attempts to kill her resulting in Sarah dieing. Lydia then tries to frame Zoe for Sarah's murder and begins to have feelings towards Zoe now believing that this is what Sarah would have wanted.
Zoe becomes Lydias next victim and she ends up stabbing her and Lydia gets life in prison.

This storyline is our key influence as it consisted of various conventions that we wanted to incorporate into our opening sequence. The twisted but very engaging storyline had an amazing reaction with the public as this was all they was talking about which would be a plus factor to have people talking about our movie. The originality of the plot attracted alot of audience and the characters did a phenominal job, so we knew we wanted to do something similar to this although we didnt keep the 'three's a crowd' aspect. This idea overall gave us all inspiration and influenced us in the production of our sequence in; characters behaviours, locations, props and ofcourse the narrative.