TE2775- Influences from Films I like

I have been researching different films which use special effects to see what effects I like and can possibly use in my project, this is to give me more ideas and I can also look into how the films are made to give me more knowledge and also using YouTube to watch tutorials as some people upload videos showing how to use After Effects and I can possibly use their techniques if it is not too much of a challenge, since I am not very skilled in editing.

I quite like the film 'Monsters' by Gareth Edwards, I first learnt about him in my second year of Media Studies in college, we looked into how he made the film and it took him a very long time using very basic technologies and editing software, however, he made the film look amazing with all of the special effects which were done on a computer, not CGI, which is rather expensive and we see this used a lot in big conglomerate films. 

The monsters look so realistic and this is something I can try to add to my idea, maybe my character can be dreaming about the future or some post apocalyptic world,

Another film I like which has a lot of special effects is Jurassic Park, although this is now an outdated film, it is considered one of the best films of its time because the dinosaurs were computer-generated and looked so real for a film in the 90's.

The dinosaur looks so real and is computer-generated which is better than it being a model like 'JAWs' was. We see so much detail of the dinosaurs, their teeth, eyes and skin looks almost real, of course we do not know what a real dinosaur looks like, but we know it should look something along the lines Jurassic Park set.