Film opening deconstruction and analysis

Development from the Preliminary:

From the preliminary experiment, Our group has made a lot of progress, visually, standard of clarity and focus, narrative development, and we gained more understanding of how to use different camera angles. 

Applying techniques to the narrative:

We strongly focused on the Mis en scene of our opening scene. The idea behind horror is that it is meant to play with your fears and create an effect of the audience being scared or uncomfortable, and create dark, gloomy, and eerie to fit the horror scene. We correctly chose an isolated brick garage location, to help show the girls are very isolated and hidden.

Lighting:

Horror themes often, have a stereotypically dark setting, whether outside in a dark forest, or inside a dimly lit house, as this helps the audience to feel on edge and frightened. When shooting in the garage we had to cover the two windows too prevent lots of light shining through. We used a slightly tinted yellow light in order to cause shadows as an effective. 

Props:

Props that we used all related to the stereotypical theme of horror, and linked to our narrative such as a kidney dish and fake blood,  screws, smaller plyers, books and skeletons.

Makeup:

When looking at the makeup we bruises to the girls faces to portrayed them being abused. We tried to make the victims look like they have been in captivity for ages by making their hair scruffy.

Angles

Our camera angles we used from our preliminary, our use of angles expanded. For example, we used POV shots, as if it was the vision of the protagonist to build the atmosphere. We ensured all of our shots were in focus and clear. 

Rule of thirds: 

We decided instead of using the rule of thirds, we kept the model in the mid shot so she wasn't portrayed as the dominant character. When the girl is screaming there is a zoom, leading away from the protagonist to show more about her being in captivity.

Montage/ continuity:

The majority of our opening scene is a montage, which consisted of a variation of shot that were all edited together to show a passing time and different scenes all in one. Therefore, when looking at the continuity we focused more on the placement of objects.

Dissolve:

When looking at editing we used a dissolve method where one scene fades to the next.

Filters:

As a group we used a lot of different filters to change the darkness and colours of different shots which helped added to the narrative and create more eerie vibes. 

Sound:

When looking at the sound used we used a range of sound effects and non diegetic effects along with our lullaby. We did not have any dialogue so the sound effects and lullaby helped to balance out the negative sound. A very short sound bridge was used right at the end, when leading into the forest scene and linked with screaming to help the scene flow smoother.