location shots for the deluge

Location shots
for the filming of our horror opening, we decided on shooting our footage in a house. This links very well with the conventions of teen horrors, where characters are often killed in their own homes. An example of this in actual media products is the film scream, where Casey (Drew Barrymore) gets killed in her own home in the film’s opening.

A laptop links to the idea of a teen horror, as many teenagers own laptops for activities such as social networking. The laptop also can suggest a fear of current technology like in the film Scream, where most characters die after some form of recent technology is present. For our horror, we are playing on the fear of the internet, as it is far more modern than mobile phones. This allows the audience in our film to associate with the fear in more of a personal way.

the bathroom is where we are planning to shoot most of our footage. Much like the bedroom, it is an area of the home where people feel most comfortable. For one of our characters to be attacked and murdered in her own bathroom allows the audience to relate to the invasion of a safe place, further adding to the fear of the scene.

This shot foreshadows the drowning of our character Marie which happens towards the end of our footage. The aim is to have this shot tell the audience that something to do with water is going to happen and its going to be something negative. However, it doesn’t say when this will happen, adding further suspense to the footage. 

As stated by our plot synopsis, it turns out the character of Stacy

 is insane, and the films events have taken place inside her mind. Using lots of shots that involve mirrors and reflections, we are going to try to use them to represent 2 worlds; reality and the world inside of Stacy’s head. We also plan to put in a shot of Marie putting mascara on. This interaction with her eyes could represent that people’s perceptions are fake, and everything the characters in our footage isn't actually real.

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Using a shot of the shower railing could be used as subtle foreshadowing to later events in our footage ends with Marie drowning in her bath. It could also be a slight reference to Alfred hitchcocks film psycho, as their lead character also dies in the bathroom.

A shot focusing on the loft could be very effective as it represents the unknown. It also represents things above the character literally and figuratively, as the killer in Maries house is smarter and stronger than her. Like the basement, lofts are areas where things hide or go wrong.