Hello everyone, today, we worked on planning and finalizing on what the setting and location will look like for each scene. Our imitative is to have a setting where we can portray the concept of a darker area that feels haunted and scary that will properly match our horror concept. When deciding, we plan to accomplish these goals in our horror film opening:
- Create a dark, isolated neighborhood where we establish immediate tension and mystery where it would lead to the climax.
- Apply our Mise En Scene, where we use low-key lighting such as the whole area will be very dark with only some streetlights being applied and limited visibility to elevate fear for our audience. We want to achieve the goal of bringing vulnerability and scenes that are very dark where we making the thrilling aspects feel more tense and unease to visualize.
- Choose a neighborhood that will feel abandoned or empty residential area to emphasize the area is empty, where there will be no outside
- Incorporate color theories such as applying red to emphasize that there will be threat involved, and lamp light that will have a desaturated colors to reflect unease
- Design the garage as the central eerie location to build suspense of why it prevails mystery, tension, and suspense.
- Add subtle environmental details such things in the floor with broken glasses to bring suspense for the audience that this garage is an unease setting.
- Analyze these locations that will strongly make an understanding of what mood should be utilized for each scene.
- First Location: The neighborhood we chose is called "Towngate". This will be the first scene that will be displayed. In this Scene, we will do a zoom in of the community having a sign that will display "Welcome My Dhost (Friend),"to display that there will be something eerie and thrilling coming in their way. The use of the word "dhost" will built up repetition and the film's purpose of unease and suspense. The sign will most likely have a vision where it would be as if a child wrote this, where we will make the sign look unprofessional and childish drawing surrounding the background of the sign, to help build up a mystery for the audience of how this neighborhood is leading towards a plan and has other potential victims.
- Second Location: This will be used to transition to the dark neighborhood of the protagonist and the Antagonist( Protagonist's friend) will explore the neighborhood since they came across something mysterious and why the neighborhood is isolated and dark. The camera will just display what the neighborhood looks like and its narrow dark roads that will bring the audience's tension of what will happen next.
- Third Location: This the house where the half majority of the film opening will take place because it is the house we chose since this is where the garage randomly opens. I felt like this the best house to portray a house being mysteriously opened with nobody there and brings an odd vibe of how the other houses, its invisible, and this is the only being visible. The house matches the description of being horror and mysterious considering the facts, that the roof tops are black, and can prevail that it is known to be isolated and a leading danger of what's inside the house.
- Fourth Location:Right now, we have not designed our props yet, but we have a general idea of what the scene will look like when we film inside the garage. We are planning to include a bright red lamp light to make the garage feel darker and more eerie. This will help us emphasize the objects that will be displayed. We are still planning how we will arrange the props inside the garage. For now, it is important to have a bigger picture of how the garage can create a wide, dark setting while applying mise-en-scène to represent colors that properly match the atmosphere. We have designed a plan where we will utilize a red flashlight that will present a mood where there is a threat that will be prepared which the protagonist would lead towards.
- Fifth Location:This is the backyard/patio area we are using to film the scene of the antagonist preparing to kill the protagonist with a chainsaw. The backyard setting works very well because it creates a haunted, unsettling atmosphere that heightens the scene's intensity. The mango tree's presence led us to make the setting darker and less visible, heightening suspense and leaving the audience uneasy during the chainsaw moment.
- Sixth Location: This is the final scene where we will show the character placing the body inside a black bag and putting it into the trunk of a car.
Reflection:
Going to my cousin’s house to take pictures of the settings and locations for our film opening helped my team and me better design how each location will portray what happens next in the story. I am glad that we were able to apply my knowledge of true horror-thriller conventions and choose locations that are dark and eerie, which will build suspense for our audience. We are able to match and describe where we will develop the mood of the characters such as fear, uncomfortable, and frightened. We have identified specific scenes where we can showcase the most thrilling moments and match them with the appropriate actions, such as using the chainsaw and burning the body.
For now, we have a general idea of which settings and locations we will use and how each scene will serve a specific purpose. This planning process will help Isaac and me better understand the layout of the film. There is still more to plan, but we are getting closer to entering the production stage, where we will fully display what the final results will look like. At this stage, this is simply the layout and visual concept of the atmosphere so we can build a clear understanding. Honestly, we are still developing our script and storyboard, but we are almost ready to begin filming our film opening.
But for today, we will be signing off!
See ya guys in da next blog!
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