Influence

Our film was majorly influenced by other christmas films likes elf, home alone, bad santa and of course saving santa. The film Arthur christmas really impacted us as well, because this films is where we got the idea of military style elves, and how the elves actually helped santa deliver all the presents. The name of our film ' saving santa ' was taken from the animated version, that film also really made a difference in how our story came about, due to us wanting our film to be just as successful as the other saving santa, but not copying the story or anything. Elf was a major player in creating our film, due to elf's success all around the northern hemisphere, and it becoming one of Christmas's traditional films, as most families will watch elf around Christmas every single year. We wanted our film to be a major contender in the Christmas film category, so we made sure we had all the representations and genre conventions that all these films had, we played it as safe as we could, but we also wanted  our film to be unique and stand out from all the other films. This is why we tried a completely different storyline to any other Christmas films out there, it was designed to include every aspect of every Christmas film, thus making it unique. Our credits we also got from elf, as it uses the book to introduce everyone so we took that idea and changed it to putting all the titles on the Christmas decorations.