Main Task Production Log #2

We continued to develop our ideas stated in the last blog and began to write our story boards. We really wanted to start presenting provoking questions immediately in our piece and came with a very chilling and provoking first shot, I came with the idea of starting the film with a close-up of a sink basin with a tap running, this shot will hold with no change for about 4-5 seconds allowing the audience to get comfortable and relaxed with what they're seeing, just as this happens a drop of blood falls into the running water suddenly followed by a couple more drops of blood. My intention for this is to remove that feeling of comfort and grab the audiences attention from the off set.

One change that we've made is we've decided to change the genre slightly from a more subtle psycho-drama to a classic-style horror, we have decided to do this as it enlarges our audience and allows us to explore the classic conventions of a horror movie, also it is a very popular genre this is partly because the audience knows what they're in for. We think this is a good idea as it gives us experience in classic horror conventions and still allows us to the use of enigma codes.

We chose to have non-diegetic sound running through the sequence as there is minimal speech due to this being the engima establishing part of the movie and also it build the effect and emphasises the genre.

We also developed the plot; it starts with the opening shot described above and switches to a Point Of View shot (POV) of hands covered in blood, the killer than begins to wash his hands in the sink and then raises his head to see himself in the mirror, for this we plan to film the mirror's reflection. As he stares the edit will warp to a white flash to signify a flashback showing a woman on the phone, the camera will be shot as a POV from behind trees giving a stalker-like feel, we plan to further signify that it is a flash back by the use of different tinted lighting, giving the opening inside sequence an orange/red glow and the outside a colder blue feel. The outside sequence continues with the killer hiding in the trees, afterwards the scene flashed back to the killer inside looking at a collection of polaroids, we plan to develop our title sequence at this point with the use of polaroid pictures.