Drawing inspiration from fellow directors, films and in an attempt to include a wide array of media platforms and forms of presenting our work, rather than write out our initial ideas we had a consultation including imput from a media teacher. This improved efficiency and allowed us to capture flowing ideas which may otherwise be missed. In order to come up with our own film idea we talked of our favourite film genres and narrowed down that list taking into the resources available to us and how we could portray representation through this. Due to a lack of resources provided to us we decided we would either go down the route of a Thrillers or Dramas as it appears rather evident from watching films such as 'Shutter Island' and 'Inception' that despite using high quality cameras the light and sound, aspects of mise en scene, had the most impact on the film. We discussed our love for films with psychological twists and films that "made you think" (a deeper meaning or motif to the story). Through the use of the colour red and white we decided to have a plot twist in our film introduction. Red is the color of fire and blood, so it is associated with energy, war, danger, strength, power, determination as well as passion, desire, and love. Red is also very emotionally intense color. It enhances human metabolism, increases respiration rate, and raises blood pressure. It has very high visibility, which is why stop signs, stoplights, and fire equipment are usually painted red and so can be used as a warning to the viewer. We would aim to lure one into assuming that the rest of the film would be based around a romance (with a male and female character) but then turns out that someone has been abused, harmed and eventually killed, as provided with insinuations throughout the film introduction.
The full conversation can be listened to below
To add to the sinsiter, realistic feel to the film introduction we wanted to make the audience feel uncomfortable. Taking inspiration from 'The Fall' in which a supposed normal family man is also murdering women in the night and then goes home to care for his children. We would aim to play on this by setting the murder sequence in a normal house. Through using school bags one would then assume that the victim also has children and if the audience were to see that the murder happened in such a common place then it would hopefully make them feel uncomfortable, subsequently adding to the suspense. Having the murder scene affected by the high key natural white light shining on the bed will provide a sense of purity and innocence of the victim and then will be shrouded by low key lighting and colours outside of the murder zone (preferably black and grey).
In the final part of the film introduction we wanted the audience to realise that the antagonist had mental health issues and was physcologically disturbed. We aimed for the audience to get an insight into the character. The plan is too shine a bright yellow stage light on the antagonist as yellow stands for freshness, happiness, positivity, clarity, energy, optimism, enlightenment, remembrance, intellect, honor, loyalty, and joy, but on the other hand it represents cowardice and deceit. The spotlight is focused on the detective and the antagonist and we aim for the audience to build up their opinion of the character. The room will be lit with low key lighting and so despite his face being hit by yellow light the surrounding light will be full of low key lighting. Black is associated with power, elegance, formality, death, evil, and mystery. Black is a mysterious color associated with fear and the unknown (black holes). It usually has a negative connotation (blacklist, black humor, 'black death'). By doing this the audience focuses not only on the mystery of the antagonist but also the power of the detective and what secrets they may hold.
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