Inspiration - Rocky II

Rocky - Inspiration

We wanted to include intertextuality to add familiarity to our teaser trailer. Upon watching the Rocky II running scene we wanted to replicate this in our piece. We felt that the montage shots tracking Rocky kept continuity throughout the sequence, while portraying the archetypal sense of masculinity.  To replicate this within our teaser trailer, we filmed various backwards tracking shots of our protagonist running through various locations. The example below is a vertical tilt high angle shot coupled with a low angle of the protagonist's feet. As you can see we took inspiration from Rocky II, while making the sequence our own by including the close up shot.