Dude, film techniques how hard can they be...
They are the most generic techniques you can reproduce. Just use things like the blood and violence of the film, the continuous dialogue between Tyler and whatsisname... Close ups, special effects, gore. Then use some crazy statement to link them...
This whole cliche business. its extremely easy to fall into the trap of writing a cliched story, but if you're able to identify what you're writing as cliched and effectively satirise it, the markers will go "hey look he's using his brain" and will be more receptive of your response.
I did it...
Fight Club
I used Fight Club for my trials. It's good if you can put a gender powerplay spin on it, (there's no women in Fight Club itself, and concentrate on the way women are represented) the dynamics of male power relations, the fact that Fight Club enforces the primal masculine qualities of...